What do you think of the Djiboutians that don't claim their somalinimo?

[samira24]

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[Khaem]

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I'm a Djiboutian so I can talk about this.
If you're talking about the diaspora then it might just be lack of knowledge back home. I remember when I was younger and all I knew was my country is Djibouti and so when people asked what I was, I just said Djiboutian. Obviously I started researching and asking my parents and become closer to somali nationalism after realizing my country only exists because of colonialism.

I always knew I was ethnically somali but I thought that Djibouti was more important since that was my nationality, this is because in the west nationalism is seen as more important so I adopted that idea. I saw it sort of like a Germany - Austria situation where they're both the same ethnicity and language but are seperate nations.

Obviously I grew up and became more knowledgable about east Africa and its history which made me a firm somali nationalist. I remember growing up in school and the teachers used to constantly talk to me about how I was an oppressed black person and how we were victims of European slavery and colonialism. I don't rally blame them though because those teachers were mostly old white ladies who didn't really know much about Africa except for Niger-Congo people and were sincere and kind to me as a child. It was because of growing up with a false black identity put onto me that when I grew older (about 16) that when I started to learn more about somalinimo I did a 180 and completly rejected black "identity" for a proper somali one.

 

[samira24]

I'm a Djiboutian so I can talk about this.
If you're talking about the diaspora then it might just be lack of knowledge back home. I remember when I was younger and all I knew was my country is Djibouti and so when people asked what I was, I just said Djiboutian. Obviously I started researching and asking my parents and become closer to somali nationalism after realizing my country only exists because of colonialism.

I always knew I was ethnically somali but I thought that Djibouti was more important since that was my nationality, this is because in the west nationalism is seen as more important so I adopted that idea. I saw it sort of like a Germany - Austria situation where they're both the same ethnicity and language but are seperate nations.

Obviously I grew up and became more knowledgable about east Africa and its history which made me a firm somali nationalist. I remember growing up in school and the teachers used to constantly talk to me about how I was an oppressed black person and how we were victims of European slavery and colonialism. I don't rally blame them though because those teachers were mostly old white ladies who didn't really know much about Africa except for Niger-Congo people and were sincere and kind to me as a child. It was because of growing up with a false black identity put onto me that when I grew older (about 16) that when I started to learn more about somalinimo I did a 180 and completly rejected black "identity" for a proper somali one.

Very informative, so are you cisse? I don't know much about Djibouti my parents see them as overly liberal Somalis but from your comment you seem conservative, so what do you think of Somalis that view you as westernized?

 

[j&jenterprises]

I'm a Djiboutian so I can talk about this.
If you're talking about the diaspora then it might just be lack of knowledge back home. I remember when I was younger and all I knew was my country is Djibouti and so when people asked what I was, I just said Djiboutian. Obviously I started researching and asking my parents and become closer to somali nationalism after realizing my country only exists because of colonialism.

I always knew I was ethnically somali but I thought that Djibouti was more important since that was my nationality, this is because in the west nationalism is seen as more important so I adopted that idea. I saw it sort of like a Germany - Austria situation where they're both the same ethnicity and language but are seperate nations.

Obviously I grew up and became more knowledgable about east Africa and its history which made me a firm somali nationalist. I remember growing up in school and the teachers used to constantly talk to me about how I was an oppressed black person and how we were victims of European slavery and colonialism. I don't rally blame them though because those teachers were mostly old white ladies who didn't really know much about Africa except for Niger-Congo people and were sincere and kind to me as a child. It was because of growing up with a false black identity put onto me that when I grew older (about 16) that when I started to learn more about somalinimo I did a 180 and completly rejected black "identity" for a proper somali one.

How common is Afar and Somali Djibouti intermixing?
I always assumed Djibouti will become more and more like Somali Siju, distancing themselves from Somalinimo and forgetting their mothertongue. Is that far off?

 

[Odious Delirium]

How common is Afar and Somali Djibouti intermixing?
I always assumed Djibouti will become more and more like Somali Siju, distancing themselves from Somalinimo and forgetting their mothertongue. Is that far off?

Afar are slowly being mixed out there is a lot of inter marriage

 

[Khaem]

How common is Afar and Somali Djibouti intermixing?
I always assumed Djibouti will become more and more like Somali Siju, distancing themselves from Somalinimo and forgetting their mothertongue. Is that far off?

I'm not really sure since I don't live there but as far as I know my family mixed more with yemenis than afars. I can trace a recent Yemeni great grandmother but I can't find any afars in my family tree yet.

Djibouti city is the biggest city there which is the only place I've been and everyone spoke only somali and we aren't that different from people in somalia. It's only diaspora people who have an issue.
You get taught in somali in school up until grade 3 and then it switches to French, this is because afars don't really like being dominated by a somali population so they started a civil war which is why the goverment mostly does things in French so that afars don't feel oppressed

 

[Khaem]

Afar are slowly being mixed out there is a lot of inter marriage

True its gonna probably become a fully somali country by the end of the century