Somali children need better role models

[barbiedreamzz]

I recently posted a thread criticizing over the poor work ethic and lazy attitudes among Somalis and African descents in general but was rebuked by nearly everyone who can't handle the truth.

One thing I disagree with you here is that using East Asians as an example is a bad one because their countries are already well established for 4+ decades and have the financial power (tech and automotive). Ivy League is just a status, it doesn't mean shit.

What you should compare are the impoverished South America, Middle East, South East Asia, Balkans and the sub continent to the lesser extent. They all had bad reputation when they moved to the West and have seen traumatizing shit like many Somali first generation immigrants but it didn't stop them from being an established group 2-3 generations later.

South East Asia went through terrible hardship during the cold war and many fled to Australia and US where racism was at all high. The Vietnamese started manual laboring from scratch doing back breaking work and look at them 30 years later. The same for Latinos, Arabs and Balkans who fled to the West as refugees and started from scratch working in blue collar jobs.

We all know every one of them own many construction, auto-mechanic, manufacturing, hospitality, real estate, agriculture, textile business and the list goes on in span of just 20-30 years of living in the West.

Meanwhile, it's been nearly 30 years and many Somalis still have a reputation of being stuck working as taxi drivers, security and some solo gig work. They're obsessed with entrepreneur crap (All African descents are notoriously obsessed with it for some reason). They just won't touch anything Blue Collar and look down on them without realising they're the backbone of every countries.

They all like to flaunt their over-saturated generic restaurants and small shops in malls when it hardly means anything, i won't go further because truth hurts.

Let that sink in.

I agree but honestly I only used East Asians as an example because they care the most about their reputation and xishood, they are also known to have a strong work-ethic something somalis can inspire to have. I don't know about those other groups you mentioned since I don't normally engage with them in real life, but judging from your comment you might be right.

Regarding your thread I completely agree with you, Africans and especially somalis don't like it when they're being told to harsh truth without acting defensive not knowing that being honest with ourselves can help us solve the problems and progress for the better.

 

[ImanStan001]

tbh my family / friends / environment is regular average , one friend works for the biggest clothing company in the world , others are doctor/ teachers/ engineers , cousins published books, one is younger than me getting her PHD , on the ward I used to work at there were Somali managers , doctors , nurses , physician assistants , and absolutely none of us have public social medias. Tbh most Somali people don’t have public social media’s at all.

And one above me posted about jobs like taxi drivers etc but the ones that do those jobs are older ones 35+.

 

[TruthBomber]

Some of yall really need to check up on your younger siblings to make sure that everything is all right, the amount of 13-18 year (mostly young male) somalis that are online ruining their precious time and energy arguing and having petty war with ajnabis or becoming radical qabiilist is sad. Makes me genuinely wonder if any of these kids have any after school activities like sports, hobbies or studies to help with their development. Let's face it this past generation of somali parents on the average are pretty shit at parenting because they have so many mental issues to handle due to the civil war, culture clash going to complete foreign country which they don't share language or religion with and on top of that raising five or six children. I feel like it's our responsibility as young adults is to give a better role model or influence on the younger generation by making an example out of ourselves, especially with the amount of unnecessary xenophobia there is recently online.

I remember I made an old hread about somalis in Ivy league's to which some of you replied that there are a lot of somalis going in to these prestigious schools but that they keep it "lowkey" well with all due respect they're kind of usless the entire point of being a successful part of your community is to influence others within in your community, just keeping quite and humble really isn't going to create a domino effect. Just have a look at the East-asians and how they make sure to always publicise their achievements, there is this Korean girl doing tiktok about her day-to-day at yale and another on at harvad not only are they improving the overal image of their community but also inspiring the Asian youth both in the west and Asia that they can do better !

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[TruthBomber]

tbh my family / friends / environment is regular average , one friend works for the biggest clothing company in the world , others are doctor/ teachers/ engineers , cousins published books, one is younger than me getting her PHD , on the ward I used to work at there were Somali managers , doctors , nurses , physician assistants , and absolutely none of us have public social medias. Tbh most Somali people don’t have public social media’s at all.

And one above me posted about jobs like taxi drivers etc but the ones that do those jobs are older ones 35+.

My dad started out as a roadmap now his a uni professor

 

[Abdisamad]

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[barbiedreamzz]

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Wait I don't get it ? uncles ruckers is very anti-black I am one of the view users here who identifies as black besides sure I gave valid criticism to somalis but I only do that because I genuinely care about most of you. Since when is it a crime for me to want to see my people succeed as a whole even if yall niggas dont like me? If anything you lot are the uncle ruckus in this situation

 

[Abdisamad]

Wait I don't get it ? uncles ruckers is very anti-black I am one of the view users here who identifies as black besides sure I gave valid criticism to somalis but I only do that because I genuinely care about most of you. Since when is it a crime for me to want to see my people succeed as a whole even if yall niggas dont like me? If anything you lot are the uncle ruckus in this situation

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[barbiedreamzz]

tbh my family / friends / environment is regular average , one friend works for the biggest clothing company in the world , others are doctor/ teachers/ engineers , cousins published books, one is younger than me getting her PHD , on the ward I used to work at there were Somali managers , doctors , nurses , physician assistants , and absolutely none of us have public social medias. Tbh most Somali people don’t have public social media’s at all.

And one above me posted about jobs like taxi drivers etc but the ones that do those jobs are older ones 35+.

I agree but as a community somalis are honesty progressing very slowly compared to other immigrants in the West. For every successful somali there are five other bums, I think the high fertility rate within somalis is a major problematic factor we keep ignoring. Realistically there is no way 2 parents or sometimes even a single mom will make 6 or 7 successful children, most struggle with neglect causing anti social behaviour.