1. McDonalds and Toys'R'us are part of the American culture and America is the greatest exporter of culture in human history. There has been none more influential than America. My point was and is that there has been no foreign meddling in Somali culture. Tbh, the only foreign infusion of culture was Islam.
You could have used a better example like for instance how most of the signs in somalia,djibouti,mogudishu somaliland are all in arabic,english,french ahmaric. Radios in somaliland is in ahmaric.
Or the fact that somali men are running around holding hands, like arabs and indians. Or that somali women are plastering imported white bleach creams inspirred by india and arabia.
Somali people started importing a different cultures and alien norms of self-importance, standards of beauty which even extended to food types and language. This has led to a generation of self-loathing. A person speaking English, Arabic or even Swahili is more like to get a job than a fully qualified only Somali speaking individual. We have demeaned our own heritage and self-worth is measured by how westernised you appear.
2. I said in modern times there has been no wide scale farming. But lets take your example for an instance. If Ajuuraan is the great farming economy that you claimed it is, then there would have been no need for a nomadic culture even in the south. Agriculture has been the base for any industrial economy today, so why did the territory that encompasses Ajuuraan adopt a pastoral lifestyle? Why didn't any of the farming techniques survive?
No what you said it is that it wasnt part of somali culture even tho numorous clans were indeed farmers and sedentary farms. Its just happens to be the majority of somalis were nomads because the location many lived in was not farm land, even with that many clans were agro pastortial and adopted dry land farming.
Ajuuran Empire was an empire based down south and utilized the farming areas of somalia which are far and less and most down in the south jubba valley and af gooye. Hence why abgaal the southern somali clan, Raxanweyn and numerous clans were farmers.
They didnt adopt pastoral lifstyle.
Farming techniques did survive i even showed you info on that, geez is like im talking to a guy who got raped by a nomad and now he is angry at them.
like i showed you we had our own farming practices ancient calendar seasonal weather/harvesting. still being used right now.
Modern? You mean after the war? lack of equipment supervision, diaspora funding , Aid crippling the community,. Lack of institutions, Alshabab controlling most of the south terrorist poor governance, which contributed to lack of productivity, many factors and guess what? non of it is culture.
Why? because the whole country of somalia is not farming land, its bleeping desert yet you expect majority to be farmers?
During siad barres regime most of somalia economy relied on agriculture and livestock and We were in fact the leading exporter of Banana in the world. Set up many farmign corparations and
Wide-scale farming was introduced by the Italian colonialists who turned peasant farming into large scale banana plantations.
No it wasnt and i already showed you wide scale farming was already in use during the ajuuran empire and even moos was planted.
With the centralized supervision of the Ajuran Empire, farms in Afgooye, Kismayo and other areas in the Jubba and Shabelle valleys increased their productivity. A system of irrigation ditches known locally as Kelliyo fed directly from the Shebelle and Jubba rivers into the plantations where sorghum, maize, beans, grain and cotton were grown during the gu (Spring in Somali) and xagaa (Summer in Somali) seasons of the Somali calendar. This irrigation system was supported by numerous dikes and dams. To determine the average size of a farm, a land measurement system was also invented with moos, taraab and guldeed being the terms used.
Even geledi sultunate used clans for farming its is nothing alien,shunned or looked down upon in our culture. but you cannot hardly expect to have a wide scale farming industry across regions, when the place is flippen 90% desert. Most clans live in desert unfarmable areas, hence why most were nomads because they had to rely on livestock.
You can urge for more productiivity in this areas but you cannot ignore the factors,including the factors of civil war and put the blame on culture which is absoulute nonsense.
Somalia has a 3,300-kilometer coastline – the longest in Africa – yet the people of Somalia eat very little seafood.
The country's per capita fish consumption is 2.4 kilograms per year, one of the lowest in the world.
https://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/un-food-agencies-somalia-promote-eating-fish-fight-hunger
Gee i wonder why
, perhaps because of this.
News of toxic waste dumping in Somali waters has circulated since the collapse of the Mohamed Siad Barre military regime in 1991, but because of the lack of a functioning central government and general lawless state of Somalia there has been little systematic investigation done on both the source of the toxic waste and its impact on communities living along Somalias 3,300km coastline. The issue received renewed attention in 2004, however, when a Tsunami surge washed up containers containing hazardous waste in Southern Somalia. According to a report from Common Community Care (2006), a local nongovernmental organization, radioactive materials and hydrogen peroxide toxic wastes were found in different locations in Southern and Central Somalia. Common Community Care (CCC) stated an unconfirmed number of fishermen had died from health conditions at locations where containers were found. In Barava district of Lower Shabelle region, local residents spoke of sudden death and skin rashes. Communities reported mass death of fish[1].
Or maybe it has something to do with this
Foreign companies loot 350 million dollars.
He said foreign interests seized the opportunity to begin looting the country’s seafood after the collapse of the Somali government in 1991.
“Between 700 up to 800 illegal fishing ships directly steal Somali seafood. They took any kind of fish including nest eggs in the deep waters”, he told AfricaNews in an exclusive interview.
He added that foreign ships use prohibited fishing equipment, including nets with very small mesh sizes and sophisticated underwater lighting systems, to lure fish to their traps.
Somalia waters have huge numbers of commercial fish species, including
the prized yellow fin tuna.
The illegal fishing ships come from Italy, Egypt, India, South Korea, Kenya, Tanzania, and Spain, according to a research that is yet to be published by Prof. Abdi Ismail Samater and his colleagues at University of Minnesota.
nomads profession Lazy?
Typical self loathing response,
