which diaspora started the "Mali" nickname?

[Marquis]

Do Americans or Euro Somalis call themselves "Mali" too? I think this is just the Canadians and UK lot.

When did this start and how do we get rid of this dumb shit? So fucking embarassing and dumb to see these Abdis call themselves after a completely different country in West Africa

 

[Spiderman]

Don't blame us UK Somalis half these abdis and xalimos are too stupid to even come up with that although now that I think about they'd probably name themselves after a country as well. But it's still probably not us.

 

[Geeljire lotus]

I like the term personally the West African country irrelevant asf

 

[Fang4]

Americans Somalis don’t call themselves that, I was shocked few years ago when I saw Somalis calling themselves mali on social media.

 

[Keo]

Probably a non-Somali. I doubt any Somali came up with that.

 

[goobweyn]

some somalis in america do call themselves malis such as the rap group Malitia Mali Mob and they've been called that since like 06

 

[yaanyuur]

in USA I never heard a somali call himself mali they say somali and proud muslim.

 

[MARAQ DIGAAG]

Probably UK, the same place the term Farax was coined.

 

[Halyeey]

Probably UK, the same place the term Farax was coined.

What happened to your suugo science tag

 

[MARAQ DIGAAG]

What happened to your suugo science tag

We found out that Sugo is an Italian loan word. Ciao, Signor.

 

[Apollo]

Do Americans or Euro Somalis call themselves "Mali" too? I think this is just the Canadians and UK lot.

When did this start and how do we get rid of this dumb shit? So fucking embarassing and dumb to see these Abdis call themselves after a completely different country in West Africa

UK

Never heard it in my country (DE).

 

[Monisha Hershey]

Do Americans or Euro Somalis call themselves "Mali" too? I think this is just the Canadians and UK lot.

When did this start and how do we get rid of this dumb shit? So fucking embarassing and dumb to see these Abdis call themselves after a completely different country in West Africa

There was a ting back then on myspace&bebo where people used to call themselves ''hottest mali in the game'' especially when they were involved around the rap/grime industry. But it was mostly people from the states, and a small ratio from the UK as well, but it was mostly from the states.
I personally think it's embarrassing especially when Mali is another country in Africa where they look like a typical West African on top of that there was a famous gospel singer on BET I remember called Mali Music I believe, it's not that hard to add 2 letters 'S & O'. They need to fix up!

 

[felloff]

Mali was started by Jamaicans who were to lazy to say somali

 

[mustang22]

Somalia is an Italian name, there is a street in Rome called Somalia.

 

[Halyeey]

Somalia is an Italian name, there is a street in Rome called Somalia.

Not really, adding -ia to form place names is a Latin/Greek thing

 

[mustang22]

Not really, adding -ia to form place names is a Latin/Greek thing

Latin is Italian not Greek

 

[Halyeey]

Latin is Italian not Greek

It was burrowed from Latin which in turn burrowed it from Greek

 

[Apollo]

Somalia is an Italian name, there is a street in Rome called Somalia.

Somalia is a Somali name. Adding -a to it doesn't change the etymology.