Just to give everybody a sense of what the average Norwegian person will see
In the city streets they will see this
All they will hear is shouting too. It's not an inviting look nor do they try to appear like it is, or be inviting at all.
On TV they will see segments about welfare collecting Somali women who don't work and who pop out 8 children for extra money
Sometimes you will the probably the most positive Somali female figure there is, Amal Aden the Somali Lesbian.
Now she does a got job of bettering the Somali female image but she also gets a lot of hate from Somali females, which negates her work to some degree.
You won't see any public servant Somali females, but tons from other ethnic groups, which is a shame
When it comes to men, they dont see many Somali men because they don't stick out too much in public. At most they will see what they view as an African or a Muslim.
You'll see Somali cab drivers, who are very talkative and helpful.
On TV they will see Somali male politicans (of which there are alot), or Mahad Mohamed, a guy who is known to pretty much everyone in Norway as being an educated (Bioengineer) Somali male who is facing deportation 20 years after becoming a citizen. And this guy has pretty much universal support in Norway, and he's seen as a good educated model refugee who came at the age of 14.
It's the older people who are reluctant to change who are hurting our image. I'm not disawoving anyone but it's the reality. I love them and they're sweet peiple wallahi, but only I and other Somalis are the ones who know that. Everyone else don't know them and what they see is off putting.
(And yes the odays who follow the same mentality are equally to blame)
But you also had the Norwegian Prime Minister talking about a Somali woman in her new years speech, saying she was the first female Somali bus driver and saying it's great to see people like her. That whole moment was great and a positive story, which we need to continue to create. There are many positive older Somali women, but they're not the ones you see everyday in the city streets because they're busy working.