You reminding me the 2 Ethiopian girls who were picked up from the airport by a Nigerian taxi driver. He asked them which part of Africa are you from? They responded "we aren't Africans; we're Ethiopians." He made sure he dropped them on the highway. Good riddance!
I have a Question for Somalis who are running for political offices in the West
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You reminding me the 2 Ethiopian girls who were picked up from the airport by a Nigerian taxi driver. He asked them which part of Africa are you from? They responded "we aren't Africans; we're Ethiopians." He made sure he dropped them on the highway. Good riddance!
Ok take that risk and dominate Silicon Valley. I don't see anything we're gaining from these token positions in Western political offices.
What had this "advocacy" achieved for us? Let us get serious here. You get things don in the West through lobbying, not thru few token offices. We really have our priorities misplaced.
You think you won’t be hated if you do that?? Why do you think Jews are so hated? Why do you think people believe they control the media and the banks? If you are successful you will be noticeable and you will be hated. You could be a prophet telling people to stop doing bad, they’ll still want to end your life. That is the way the worlds works. Don’t worry about what you can’t control.
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3rdchild · Beelweynta Islaamiga
They are focused on business because they all emigrated specific people for economic opportunity as opposed to somalis who emigrated randomly for safety. THus the scope of their activities remains smaller because their community is more niche than somali community
Also they had 20 year head start
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they don’t get trashed because A. They are not easily distinguishable from AA or other Africans and B. They are gaalo and easily integrate and assimilate into gaalo culture.
if you try to make it any more than that you’re just grasping at straws.
somalis are very easily distinguishable from most other ethnic groups and are also muslims which makes it harder for them to assimilate. This puts a large target on them for right wingers.
That’s not true.
they don’t get trashed because A. They are not easily distinguishable from AA or other Africans and B. They are gaalo and easily integrate and assimilate into gaalo culture.
if you try to make it any more than that you’re just grasping at straws.
somalis are very easily distinguishable from most other ethnic groups and are also muslims which makes it harder for them to assimilate. This puts a large target on them for right wingers.
It’s always good to advocate and serve your community if you don’t you think someone else will?
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yep. conservative media has coons from 2nd generation madow immigrants. they blend in and trash madow americans and enable the white nationalists and supremacists.
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A majority of these politicians were raised in the west. So with that being said this isn’t exclusively something that only happens to Somalis. There are plenty of other politicians from different ethnic backgrounds. With all this being said let’s talk about the young men and women that are interested in politics.
First things first I learned early in high school that not all nerds are the same. I took advanced placement courses all throughout high school. I met students who wanted to become doctors, lawyers, engineers, politicians, scientists, and etc. upbringing and childhood interests played a big role in the careers they wanted to break into. Like I got a former classmate that’s a doctor now(general surgery resident). He use to do the bare minimum in most non science courses. His gpa was barely above a 3.0 by the time he graduated. All the As he got in every science course he took carried his gpa.
I also had a classmate I use to hang out with in high school that had an interest working in politics. Met her while taking Ap us history and ap government. She’s now a lawyer. I’m still friends with her on social media and I always see her posting about local politics. She even helped run one of the campaigns for someone that ran for office. I fully expect this chick to run for office in her city/state in the next few years.
As a teen I honestly didn’t meet that many young nerds that actually had a solid interest in working in tech. Most of the ones I did meet that had interest in those fields were mostly Asians. Hence why I said upbringing played a big role in the way students chose their career goals. These Asian students came from households where their parents forced them to break into stem. Whereas these Caadan, Maadow, and Hispanic students I met grew up in households where their parents let them pursue any career they wanted.
judging from what I’ve seen from Facebook a lot of my former classmates from these courses ended up working in medicine, finance, law, and engineering.
