The plan was for the parents to flee the war and chaos and raise the children in the west, and when the fighting stopped and AS was handed an ass-whooping, we'd return home. However, the younger generation has failed, mostly due to the fact that our parents refused to learn the language and the previous Somali diaspora didn't exactly help the more recent immigrants in settling down or integrating. Another problem is poverty, so many Somalis live off benefits and the parents, especially the mothers, are content with that, showing their kids to not bother pushing themselves and that their is always free money to fall back onto. Meanwhile, the successful individuals in the Somali diaspora are prevented from achieving much due to "muh-dhaqan", by which I mean they are carted back off to Somalia and made to marry some relative of theirs. This mostly occurs to young people, mostly men from what I've seen, who have only recently graduated from Uni or college and have a mountain of debt and work to deal with and now they have to deal with a FOB as a partner, who also wants to be brought to the West, with family in tow???
If we want to be successful and contribute to Somalia or whatever country we currently reside in, we're gonna have to break away from traditions, not completely but partially, and try to better ourselves- No more FKD or chatroom, more studying and promoting education among the current generation of diaspora, who knows we might have an Einstein appear from it in the next 1000000000 years.