Again that's physical for example if you talk to most Landers from 1991 and 2019 his politcal viewpoints are the same if you talk to most Puntites from 99 to 2019 his views and ambitions for Somalia hasn't changed this goes for every clan and region in Somalia we have a sheep mentality if you bring something new you are either called crazy or outcasted
Yes Somalis do not like 'new' things, they always go back to 'history' and sheep mentality. Any time something new comes waxad tahay 'niin waalan'. They are definitely not LIBERALS or welcomers of new idea but very 'conservative'. I will give u an example, my awoowe died defending the boqortoyo against sayidka who proposed a 'new radical idea' Somalinimo. Sayid was saying you will 'fare' better under a government that protects all Somali rather then a Kingdom that protects only Majerten. My awoowe couldn't understand nor accept this radical new idea since he never saw a government consisting of 'somali' based on shared language, skin color, land, culture, religion. It was beyond his 'mind-set' and also his time period which was 'kinship' based government.
He only could envision a government that 'was blood related and clan based' thru an elected KING. Guess what side my awoowe fought on? he fought to 'preserve' his kingdom majertenia, he went out to 'duudo regiment' and enlisted to protect the kingdom against the 'hordes' of darawish who were attacking any clan that comes against this new IDEA. As Somalis we do the same. Even if you see the 1960 people, they want Somalia how it used to be based on 1960 borders and colonial views. If you meet the 1990 kids, we are 'tribal' now since Aideed introduced this idea, we can't envision a Somalia that is any different then what Aideed proposed. Hence we are federalist and PL cannot think outside the box. I told you we lack 'visionaries' we always work within whatever vision is established in our time period and try to make it work along a govt model.
Just like the marehan generation cannot think or fathom beyond a government that is similar to siyad barre, their stuck in that vision, hordes of sheeps follow it, anything outside that scope is unacceptable since their not liberal enough to accept new ideas, it has to be old and established and tried first. My father is the generation of siyad, he cannot accept a government that looks any different to Siyad model either. But he also remembers the SYL government cause he was a kid at the time and can also 'click' mentally with that government system. He also knows Abdillahi Yusuf introduction of 'tribal jabhad' culture which has left a 'huge stain' on the nation in terms of cultural change, because we are now uniting on majerten, marehan, or habar gedir or abgaal. Before it wasn't like that at all, especially in the 60's. In the urban Mogadishu a Marehan wouldn't look twice at you if you were nothing, you had to make friends and socialize like all urban cultures are, waa inaad adigu iska soo saarta magaalada, ma jira 'clan card'. My dad remembers those days fondly as the old banadiri culture. A strong urban culture, but he also knows the current culture is not banadiri and very 'galgaduud' based.
Our current culture has roots from Abdillahi Yusuf introducing tribal violent militancy but it also has a aideed touch to it 'everyone go back to where you came from' which is where federalism was born with a touch of abdillahi yusuf introduction of 'qabiil walbo' ha tashdo si loo badelo siyad barre. SSDF only goal was to return the nation to 1969, nothing else. Even the name suggest it had a democratic leaning, it wanted elections to happen after the overthrow of siyad. They had no intention of tribal wars or they would've done that in balanbal, galdogob and massacared siyad loyalists.
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