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Exactly being in MN and seeing a young Somali men give up on college (when an associates degree is completely free of you qualify for fafsa) and going into security, low retails jobs, Uber etc is just awful how is it that your own sister puts her head down and grinds out a degree but you can’t? I. Remember meeting someone and he tried telling me he’s not going to college and that he’d rather stay with his job as a McDonald’s manager I tried convincing him of even going to some sort of tech bootcamp and he wouldn’t budge we some sort of Somali professionals mentorship programI’m not that old I’m an early gen Z. But in Canada the issues still persist with the younger generation. Most of us still live in low income neighbourhoods (I.e the hood) especially in cities like Toronto where housing is expensive. There’s a lot of young Somali ciyaal suuq men.
When I was in uni I joined the Somali student association and the ratio of Somali women to Somali men in uni was like 4:1. I rarely saw Somali guys on campus but I would see Somali women somewhat often. It was a very big imbalance
I don’t really expect or want their sympathy because why should a bum be praised? If you were born and raised in the west there’s so much opportunity available to you especially as a man. If a man is not academically inclined he could still work in a blue collar field, for example. But working in Uber, a warehouse, or factory is underachieving especially for a diaspora man, sorry