Why Somalis are the most successful African business entrepreneurs

[faarax_mn]

I’ve noticed this too, Somalis are naturally very talented businesspeople. Wherever there is relative peace our businesses seem to thrive.

Sometimes we get too successful and the locals get mad like in South Africa

 

[Apollo]

I’ve noticed this too, Somalis are naturally very talented businesspeople. Wherever there is relative peace our businesses seem to thrive.

Sometimes we get too successful and the locals get mad like in South Africa

Big caveat: only in non-Social Democracies.

I swear Social Democracy policies ruin the entrepreneurial spirit of Somalis.

 

[En_Sabah Nur]

I posted this already

 

[Sophisticate]

Yeah, I just got some new fresh fades

Grey hairs more like it.

 

[Apollo]

Grey hairs more like it.

I got my first single grey hair at age 24.

It shocked me.

However, I haven't found another one since then and at the same spot I can't find it anymore, LOL.

Luckily my parents got grey hair very late in their life (late 40s), so I should be good for a long time.

 

[Abdisamad]

Grey hairs more like it.

Lool, are you lowkey trying to humble me down

 

[Abdisamad]

I got my first single grey hair at age 24.

It shocked me.

However, I haven't found another one since then and at the same spot I can't find it anymore, LOL.

Luckily my parents got grey hair very late in their life (late 40s), so I should be good for a long time.

If you find gry hair just pick them, that'll reduce their regrewth

 

[Abdisamad]

@Sophisticate

Have you got any gry hair yet?

 

[Apollo]

@Sophisticate

Have you got any gry hair yet?

At university I saw a bunch of Arabs in their 20s have like 10-20 strands of grey hair. Shocking.

Maybe those white people also did, but it is hard to see it in blonde / light brown hair. With black hair the contrast is greater.

Luckily now I don't have any.

 

[Sophisticate]

I got my first single grey hair at age 24.

It shocked me.

However, I haven't found another one since then and at the same spot I can't find it anymore, LOL.

Luckily my parents got grey hair very late in their life (late 40s), so I should be good for a long time.

I had a friend who started to grey at 16. Same here. My mother had totally black hair even in her late 50s. Alx, I thank my parents for graceful aging.

@Sophisticate

Have you got any gry hair yet?

I don't. Grey hair is very late in my family.

 

[Nilotic]

Dudes are getting grey hairs at 24?

 

[Apollo]

Dudes are getting grey hairs at 24?

Just a single strand and then it disappeared.

It is much more common than you think and it can be much worse than a single strand. Go to any college and look at the hair of some of those students up close. West Asians seem to have a higher frequency of prematurely greying than other races it seems. Same with balding, lol. Luckily I got no bidaar whatsoever.

 

[Nilotic]

Just a single strand and then it disappeared.

It is much more common than you think and it can be much worse than a single strand. Go to any college and look at the hair of some of those students up close. West Asians seem to have a higher frequency of prematurely greying than other races it seems. Same with balding, lol. Luckily I got no bidaar whatsoever.

I didn't see Africans with grey hairs when I was studying, but I did see it in a number of Lebanese students; we even had a balding student in high school. I never felt as sorry for an Arab as I did then.

 

[The alchemist]

At university I saw a bunch of Arabs in their 20s have like 10-20 strands of grey hair. Shocking.

Maybe those white people also did, but it is hard to see it in blonde / light brown hair. With black hair the contrast is greater.

Luckily now I don't have any.

I had a Chinese friend back in middle school who had a lot of grey hairs, also an Afghani one who had some grey hair in high school. Even funnier, a couple of guys I know experienced getting patches of complete hair loss on their heads from stress. One of them even struggled because he almost experienced complete hair loss from it because it spread, and there is a risk you can never regain your hair once that happens. The thought of that gave him even more stress. We had a great laugh about it looking back.

 

[Sophisticate]

I had a Chinese friend back in middle school who had a lot of grey hairs, also an Afghani one who had some grey hair in high school. Even funnier, a couple of guys I know experienced getting patches of complete hair loss on their heads from stress. One of them even struggled because he almost experienced complete hair loss from it because it spread, and there is a risk you can never regain your hair once that happens. The thought of that gave him even more stress. We had a great laugh about it looking back.

What you are referring to is a skin disorder/autoimmune related hair loss.
It's called Alopecia Areata and it can also occur concurrently with other autoimmune conditions like Lupus, Hashimoto's etc. No one really knows the reason for the increase in autoimmunity in the past few decades but environmental factors are partially attributable. I've also read viral infections and even immunization in some people can be immunostimulatory triggering it. In individuals with genetic susceptibilities this may arise. Bear in mind, there isn't one single cause.

One's immune system attacks their hair follicle(s). Its not like stress-based shedding aka telogen effluvium or hair thinning. Though it may occur following a traumatic event. Nor is it like androgenic (male or female patterned) hair loss and it has a different morphology being patchy with an unpredictable prognosis, progression and remission. Their hair loss could be mild or extreme (complete loss of all body hair). It could be one patch, several or a form a snake like band around the scalp i.e. ophiasis being harder to treat and slower to recover. Its often periodic and episodic in most individuals but in rare cases one's hair does not grow back.

I used to be apart of this online health and fitness community so I knew people that had it and reversed it. Not much is offered in the way of conventional medicine beyond photo therapy, anti-inflammatory topicals or injections (not the most effective long-term) and immune suppressants like JAK inhibitors (trade off of suppressed immune function in exchange for hair growth even in those with total hair loss).

Outside of the realm of mainstream medicine you have functional medicine practitioners and naturopaths along with eastern medicine. There's also anti-inflammatory diets (GAPs, Paleo etc) because it is an autoimmune disorder after all and there seems to be some connection with the gut microbiome.

Ayurveda (Indian Medicine) is probably the least invasive alternative and doesn't require much of a change. People can clown South Asians but they specialize in hair.

 

[The alchemist]

What you are referring to is a skin disorder/autoimmune related hair loss.
It's called Alopecia Areata and it can also occur concurrently with other autoimmune conditions like Lupus, Hashimoto's etc. No one really knows the reason for the increase in autoimmunity in the past few decades but environmental factors are partially attributable. I've also read viral infections and even immunization in some people can be immunostimulatory triggering it. In individuals with genetic susceptibilities this may arise. Bear in mind, there isn't one single cause.

One's immune system attacks their hair follicle(s). Its not like stress-based shedding aka telogen effluvium or hair thinning. Though it may occur following a traumatic event. Nor is it like androgenic (male or female patterned) hair loss and it has a different morphology being patchy with an unpredictable prognosis, progression and remission. Their hair loss could be mild or extreme (complete loss of all body hair). It could be one patch, several or a form a snake like band around the scalp i.e. ophiasis being harder to treat and slower to recover. Its often periodic and episodic in most individuals but in rare cases one's hair does not grow back.

I used to be apart of this online health and fitness community so I knew people that had it and reversed it. Not much is offered in the way of conventional medicine beyond photo therapy, anti-inflammatory topicals or injections (not the most effective) and immune suppressants (trade off of suppressed immune function in exchange for hair growth even in those with total hair loss).

Outside of the realm of mainstream medicine you have functional medicine practitioners and naturopaths along with eastern medicine. There's also anti-inflammatory diets (GAPs, Paleo etc) because it is an autoimmune disorder after all and there seems to be some connection with the gut microbiome.

Ayurveda (Indian Medicine) is probably the least invasive alternative and doesn't require much of a change. People can clown South Asians but they specialize in hair.

Thanks for the elaborate explanation. You really know a lot about this particular and general subject. To my very limited knowledge, and as the guy told me, it was stress-related and the context of his life at that time really reaffirms this. I think alopecia areata, to some degree, can be triggered by stress, among other things I have no clue about. Well, he regrew everything, so it's all good. Comedy in hindsight, right?

 

[Dhagaxdheer]

I don't get what's so funny.

What are you trying to say?

Waxaan rabaa in aan ogaado aragtitaada.

A Dinka who speaks better Af Somali than most Qurbajoog

 

[Nilotic]

A Dinka who speaks better Af Somali than most Qurbajoog

I mostly used Google and some words-phrases my mates taught me, so I'm definitely not fluent, mate.

I'm being a mischievous bastard through my constant trolling -- and I think I'll stop now.

 

[Dhagaxdheer]

I mostly used Google and some words-phrases my mates taught me, so I'm definitely not fluent, mate.

I'm being a mischievous bastard through my constant trolling -- and I think I'll stop now.

I am just looking for another thing to criticize Western Somalis for

 

[Nilotic]

I am just looking for another thing to criticize Western Somalis for

Ah, I see, you want to shame the hooyo matalos by pointing out that a blue-black Dinka ostensibly speaks better Af Somali than they do.