I really think we should just stop refering our selves as Somalis, the name is cursed and comes with every negative thing in the world, famines,piracy,terrorism, and on top of that we are the only savages in the world without a government for decades.
We also never fail to loose a spot at the top ten most poorest countries in the world and hold that record for every year since 1960, we need to claim our Gueennes world record award.
The diaspora Somali's bad reputation also pute gas to the flame, gang members, welfare receipts, wide unemployment, high education dropping rate and unskilled workforce is what majority of our diaspora community known for.
I now identify as a Puntite or Puntlander as my country of origin,since it draws a blank image to most of foreigners it is still much better a image than anarchy and famine.
I aslo encourage the other Somali states like the DDS and NFD to ditch the floped name, countries change their country names often and ditch if associate with a bad rep , this will also help the country attract more foreign investments and tourists.
No one will come to visit Somalia as a tourist even if we find a peace due to our past history and the civil war media coverage, that disturbing footage are still fresh on everyone's brain
Most of foreigners would still think the pirates,terrorist and clan Mooryaans are still active and operational for next few decades untill they die or forget,
The damage is done already and even if we get a great government,law and order and manage to invest in a world class tourist resorts most foreigners will consider Somalia a dangerous country and will never visit.
Do we need a new name and makeover?
We also never fail to loose a spot at the top ten most poorest countries in the world and hold that record for every year since 1960, we need to claim our Gueennes world record award.
The diaspora Somali's bad reputation also pute gas to the flame, gang members, welfare receipts, wide unemployment, high education dropping rate and unskilled workforce is what majority of our diaspora community known for.
I now identify as a Puntite or Puntlander as my country of origin,since it draws a blank image to most of foreigners it is still much better a image than anarchy and famine.
I aslo encourage the other Somali states like the DDS and NFD to ditch the floped name, countries change their country names often and ditch if associate with a bad rep , this will also help the country attract more foreign investments and tourists.
No one will come to visit Somalia as a tourist even if we find a peace due to our past history and the civil war media coverage, that disturbing footage are still fresh on everyone's brain
Most of foreigners would still think the pirates,terrorist and clan Mooryaans are still active and operational for next few decades untill they die or forget,
The damage is done already and even if we get a great government,law and order and manage to invest in a world class tourist resorts most foreigners will consider Somalia a dangerous country and will never visit.
Do we need a new name and makeover?
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