things we can learn from others

[lee_jh]

what concepts, ideas, customs,and practices can we learn from other ethnic groups (Take notes from)? I am a staunch believer that there are some redeeming aspects within every culture, even ones that you might consider "enemies".

 

[Apollo]

Germans & the Japanese: strong work ethic, efficiency, punctuality.

Israelis: strong unity despite clan diversity (Ashkenazim, Yemenite, Sephardic, Ethiopian etc etc) and making the desert bloom.

 

[NordicSomali]

Scandinavian dugnadsånd: working towards the collective good


The Chinese belief in harmony

 

[NordicSomali]

Janteloven

 

[alexander]

china: work ethic and concentration camps

the west: human rights and democracy.

Saudi Arabia: how to chop critical journalists into pieces.

the persian gulf: autocracy and religious zealotry

 

[Periplus]

china: work ethic and concentration camps

the west: human rights and democracy.

Saudi Arabia: how to chop critical journalists into pieces.

the persian gulf: autocracy and religious zealotry

Let me guess, you love the West?

 

[alexander]

Let me guess, you love the West?

I love their values. A young breh like me can walk up to president Biden and call him a bytch made nigga, and nothing will happen to me. May Allah bless the west

 

[Yahya]

Norway- how to effectively invest oil wealth into a pension fund for law abiding citizens
West- Human rights
China- Hard work and determination can overcome a century of humiliation
Middle east- How not to spend oil wealth
Israel- Don't get on their bad side
Afghanistan- A united people can overcome any nation
Rwanda- How to overcome a brutal civil war.

 

[Periplus]

I think Somalis should follow Scandinavia as a base model with some improvements.

Pro-business social democracies that reinvest resource revenue back into their citizens while also pursuing renewable energy.

 

[alexander]

Norway- how to effectively invest oil wealth into a pension fund for law abiding citizens
West- Human rights
China- Hard work and determination can overcome a century of humiliation
Middle east- How not to spend oil wealth
Israel- Don't get on their bad side
Afghanistan- A united people can overcome any nation
Rwanda- How to overcome a brutal civil war.

Afghanistan is hardly united. Taliban is made of Pashtuns and they kill off minorities like hazars. Somalia shouldn’t learn anything positive about Afghanistan.