Are u a proud somali?

[Barni]

I was just reflecting last night & I think for the first time in my life I admitted to myself that I am not proud being somali. I was blindly patriotic as a child, but after learning about qabilism, the state of our government, the treatment that women & children go through back home, the continuous drought & famine, the fact that our lands are occupied by our enemies & lack of ancient somali history (DON’T U DARE MENTION MACROBIA OR PUNT! UNLESS THERE IS EVIDENCE LINKING US TO IT, ITS PSUEDOHISTORY) the list could go on forever. But I would like to clarify I dont hate being somali, I just dont see y ppl r boastful about it.

 

[Odious Delirium]

I was neutral to it when I was younger but I would say at the moment I'm a proud somali but not in the fanatic nationalist way

 

[Nilotic]

There's a great deal for you to be proud of whilst also wanting more for your people; the two are not mutually exclusive.

The Somalis defeated the Portuguese and fought bravely against the British

 

[Barni]

I was neutral to it when I was younger but I would say at the moment I'm a proud somali but not in the fanatic nationalist way

Being a somali nationalist is a contradiction within itself.

 

[...j]

Do you really think an area situated across the gulf from South Arabia, that's inbetween India and Egypt, while neighboring Ethiopia has no ancient history?

 

[Barni]

Do you really think an area situated across the gulf from South Arabia, that's inbetween India and Egypt, while neighboring Ethiopia has no ancient history?

yes

 

[killerxsmoke]

I was just reflecting last night & I think for the first time in my life I admitted to myself that I am not proud being somali. I was blindly patriotic as a child, but after learning about qabilism, the state of our government, the treatment that women & children go through back home, the continuous drought & famine, the fact that our lands are occupied by our enemies & lack of ancient somali history (DON’T U DARE MENTION MACROBIA OR PUNT! UNLESS THERE IS EVIDENCE LINKING US TO IT, ITS PSUEDOHISTORY) the list could go on forever. But I would like to clarify I dont hate being somali, I just dont see y ppl r boastful about it.

somali ancient history hasn't been studied properly mainly because of war and also siad barre didnt allow people to do archaeological work in the country. Right now just look at this tweet, over 100,000 archaeological Structures and most of them are ancient. There are also somali city states, it's was there during roman times

 

[Garaad diinle]

How can you not be a proud somali? Did you forget about our great noble macrobian heritage? What about our caucasian lineage? Our language is a member of the afro-asiatic language family that includes the ancient egyptians, the builders of the pyramids so rejogs my fellow macrobians.

 

[Keep it a boqol]

The Somali people, despite being a very tiny population were the epicentre of the ancient world, dominating the ancient world trade and the Indian Ocean, one of the first African maritime civilizations, went as far as Mozambique and the Maldives and created colonies, was the pioneer bridge between the African and Asian world , one of the oldest civilizations in the world , the first African people to travel to Asia and influenced the Chinese to the point that the word for giraffe in Chinese is literally Somali.

I am proud of being Somali you should learn your history. It doesn’t start from 91.

 

[Richard Pearson]

I love being Somali, I love Somali women, I love Somali people, I love Somalinimo, I love Somali culture, I love Somali Women, I love the Somali language, I love Somali Literature (Gabays), also did I mention that I love Somali women

 

[astr0veiled]

proud somali muslim nationalist over here❤

 

[Barni]

I love being Somali, I love Somali women, I love Somali people, I love Somalinimo, I love Somali culture, I love Somali Women, I love the Somali language, I love Somali Literature (Gabays), also did I mention that I love Somali women

You love everything about somalia but living there got it.

 

[Barni]

Somalis never defeated the Portuguese

Who did then? Was it the ottomans?

 

[𐒌𐒓𐒐𐒓𐒗𐒕𐒒_952]

Yes im poud Somali and the macrobians indeed were Somali

 

[Basra]

I was just reflecting last night & I think for the first time in my life I admitted to myself that I am not proud being somali. I was blindly patriotic as a child, but after learning about qabilism, the state of our government, the treatment that women & children go through back home, the continuous drought & famine, the fact that our lands are occupied by our enemies & lack of ancient somali history (DON’T U DARE MENTION MACROBIA OR PUNT! UNLESS THERE IS EVIDENCE LINKING US TO IT, ITS PSUEDOHISTORY) the list could go on forever. But I would like to clarify I dont hate being somali, I just dont see y ppl r boastful about it.

 

[...j]

Yes im poud Somali and the macrobians indeed were Somali

Why do you like that alphabet so much

 

[Barni]

proud somali muslim nationalist over here❤

Another walking contradiction.

 

[DubatDiaries]

the fact that our lands are occupied by our enemies & lack of ancient somali history (DON’T U DARE MENTION MACROBIA OR PUNT! UNLESS THERE IS EVIDENCE LINKING US TO IT, ITS PSUEDOHISTORY)

I was trying to spread the good word about Macrobia to my family and I was accused of being a Somali incel/chronically online. Imagine my shock!

whats with all the anti-macrobia sheeko?

 

[OhMan]

 

[Shimbiris]

I couldn't care less if we were Hunter-Gatherers for our entire history. I will always be comfortable and proud to be what I am. Learn from the Badu:

I do not care if Xamar was some thriving medieval port presided over by a "Barbara" Suldaan (Somali) as early as the 14th century. I do not care if we had some walled interior towns like Bardhere over a hundred years ago. I do not care if the Sayyid somehow won victories against great empires like Britain and Italy and prompted them to need fighter jets to end the affair. I do not care if some of our ancestors won victories against the Xabashis 500 years ago and rode into battle in chainmail and armored horses:

Armor was used by pre-early modern Horners. In the Futuh al-Habasha we are told of "iron and steel" armor, of armor for horses, of helmets and chainmail as well as breastplates and so forth:

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You can see clearly that the Muslims like the Somalis and the Christian Abyssinians all had things like chainmail, breastplates and iron helmets as well as armor for their horses. All of this just probably fell out of fashion when guns were introduced.

I do not care if we've had, for hundreds of years, respected Islamic scholars like Sheikh Jami of Harar whose hands were kissed at Makkah:

I do not care if the bustling, wild and insane trade-fair of Berbera was once the envy of the whole Western Indian Ocean coast with the very Gulf it sat upon being called "The Gulf of Berbera" once upon a time. I do not care if we had market-towns in the times of the Greeks or if we were famed hardy warriors even in the eyes of our gaalo enemies:

"There is no one alive as tough as the Somali nomad. No one. An askari wounded in a fight in the Haud country walked 14 miles holding his guts in his hand, was sewn up and lived to soldier again. And the women are as spiritually strong as their men."- Gerald Hanley

Nor if entities like the Geledi extracted tribute from the Omanis or if our predecessors over the last 200 years were traveling in Dhows from Bombay to Mauritus and Jeddah. NONE of it matters. I am as the Bedu. Proud and confident in my humanity and mere existence itself. I look down on pathetic people who need shit like "My ancestuhhh build BYRAMID!" to feel whole. It's utterly pathetic and I adore how they ignore that, throughout history, most people were peasants and slaves and only a tiny minority lived well. You are not likely the descendants of Pharaohs but overwhelmingly the descendant of those humble Fellah predecessors working their fields but be PROUD and comfortable in yourself nonetheless, you ninny.