Somali immigrants in Sweden suffering from severe vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy
New research out of Sweden has found that pregnant Somali women are suffering from severe vitamin D deficiency, with one-third of the women having undetectable vitamin D levels.
Past reports have...
Battling diabetes another hurdle for Somali immigrants
Diabetes is a complex disease and navigating a daily regimen of medications, blood sugar checks, diet, exercise and doctors visits can be overwhelming in the best of times. It's even tougher for immigrants still learning English.
Advocate...
I hope the laughing has subsided. I will outline the benefits of virtual romance with the oh so delicate men of the "SSpot". :trumpsmirk:
Low Maintenance - Simply log in and log out when you please. They won’t question your whereabouts or why you haven’t contacted them. And if your fed up the...
I recently became more interested in Somali Politics and due to my lack of knowledge I wanted to ask if the following statemens is true and if you've heard it before. Someone claimed that Al-Shabaab and the bombings are just a distraction of what is really going on in Somalia. Al Shabaab is not...
Somali girl calls into YouTube channel complaining about why A.Americans are treating her badly at her job. I'm not sure why Somalis care what mathows think about them but the guys response was very weak in my opinion. What do ya'll think?
Ethiopia, humanitarian groups say food aid for 7.8 million to run out
Are we incapable of building a functioning successful state in any country? This is Ethiopia, that has a government and even here we are the poorest and most backward ethnic group. NFD is equally a dry drought-ridden...
Below are some basic facts about Khat/Qat and it's Social/economical effects on Somali Society.
For more info, follow the link down below.
Source:
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in cultural perspective Edited by Arjun Appadurai
Chapter 8 - Qat: changes in the production and...
It's really hard keeping a track of so many similar named people, especially distant cousins. I have to have a notebook for my father's side of the family alone. We should just have proper surnames instead of the patrynomic surnames we have now.
So there's this Arab guy on a YouTube comment that was defending Somalis after this person left this comment on there:
Here's the Arab guy's responses:
I had to spoil it by saying Somalis don't have Arab in them and that Ethiopians have more Jewish and Arab in them than Somalis.
:mjlol:
Then...
...why Somalia is in the Arab League? I met an Eritrean family the other day and they started speaking to me in Arabic. I didn't know they were xabashi, I assumed they were Sudani. It got me thinking, why is Somalia considered an Arab country when we have our own language and customs and the...
Imagine Somalis being the descendants of the first humans to invent farming and agriculture. Now imagine that we are a mostly nomadic people who despise farming and suffer from annual droughts and famine...
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