🇸🇴 The southward expansion is back 🇸🇴

[Khaem]

 

[HuunoHunter]

Kuja ambayo kulaha

 

[New World]

Is this good or bad ?

 

[Ashraf]

You’re giving Sam Bidwell ammo. Out of everyone on this forum I wouldn’t be surprised if you were included in his thread, your one of the most ultra-national niggas on this platform

 

[SadikBoom]

Based

 

[Khaem]

You’re giving Sam Bidwell ammo. Out of everyone on this forum I wouldn’t be surprised if you were included in his thread, your one of the most ultra-national niggas on this platform

I'll say it loud and proud sxb, I'll even return to twitter to stand my ground

 

[Idilinaa]

This is the reality if you go to Nairobi and Eastleigh, all that other stuff is social media postering and nonsense.

On the ground people have to come to understand how they benefit from Somali business, it provides them with income and jobs. A lot of Kenyans rely on it.

 

[Shimbiris]

This is the reality if you go to Nairobi and Eastleigh, all that other stuff is social media postering and nonsense.

On the ground people have to come to understand how they benefit from Somali business, it provides them with income and jobs. A lot of Kenyans rely on it.

I met many Kenyans in Dubai and even a few here now in New England and most seem completely positive toward us, "Oh Eastleigh! I get EVERYTHING from Eastleigh! If you need something the Somalis got it!" never had a single one be weird or hateful. These twitter saaxiibs are clearly just a deranged minority.

Hell, back when Covid hit and I hadn't gotten my jabs yet the UAE government had a ban on people entering government buildings if they were not jabbed as a way to basically force you into getting vaccinated. I needed to get my car's registration renewed in Sharjah but didn't know about the ban and this Kenyati saaxiib was at the door and told me I couldn't enter because I hadn't been vaccinated, yet when I looked sad and said I'd come a long way he goes:

"You African?"
"Yes, I'm Somali."
"Oh, I'm Kenyan. .... okay, go in and be quick about your business."

 

[Idilinaa]

I met many Kenyans in Dubai and even a few here now in New England and most seem completely positive toward us, "Oh Eastleigh! I get EVERYTHING from Eastleigh! If you need something the Somalis got it!" never had a single one be weird or hateful. These twitter saaxiibs are clearly just a deranged minority.

Hell, back when Covid hit and I hadn't gotten my jabs yet the UAE government had a ban on people entering government buildings if they were not jabbed as a way to basically force you into getting vaccinated. I needed to get my car's registration renewed in Sharjah but didn't know about the ban and this Kenyati saaxiib was at the door and told me I couldn't enter because I hadn't been vaccinated, yet when I looked sad and said I'd come a long way he goes:

"You African?"
"Yes, I'm Somali."
"Oh, I'm Kenyan. .... okay, go in and be quick about your business."

Living in the UAE must be the most cosmopolitan experience in human existence, you probably meet so many cool and amazing people with interesting life stories from various parts of the world.

How do you feel it compares to the US?

 

[NidarNidar]

I met many Kenyans in Dubai and even a few here now in New England and most seem completely positive toward us, "Oh Eastleigh! I get EVERYTHING from Eastleigh! If you need something the Somalis got it!" never had a single one be weird or hateful. These twitter saaxiibs are clearly just a deranged minority.

Hell, back when Covid hit and I hadn't gotten my jabs yet the UAE government had a ban on people entering government buildings if they were not jabbed as a way to basically force you into getting vaccinated. I needed to get my car's registration renewed in Sharjah but didn't know about the ban and this Kenyati saaxiib was at the door and told me I couldn't enter because I hadn't been vaccinated, yet when I looked sad and said I'd come a long way he goes:

"You African?"
"Yes, I'm Somali."
"Oh, I'm Kenyan. .... okay, go in and be quick about your business."

Most of the haters are Kikuyus who are Bantu, we get along nilotes and Nilo/cush mix like the Masaai.

 

[Shimbiris]

Living in the UAE must be the most cosmopolitan experience in human existence, you probably meet so many cool and amazing people with interesting life stories from various parts of the world.

How do you feel it compares to the US?

I often japed that I never had to travel the world, the world travelled to me.



Was honestly surreal. When I was born in Dubai and during my first 5-10 years of life there it was largely an irrelevant backwater. Other than the Burj al-Arab, which only came a bit after my birth, it had little to its name and was as well known as pre-World Cup Doha or the capital of Bahrain, Manama, which I actually had to Google in order to jog my memory just so you realize how irrelevant it is.

Yet from the time I was about 10 until I left a little over a year ago at the age 28 it became a global city on everyone's lips as much as London, Tokyo or New York City. An ethnic melting pot that would give the Big Apple a run for its money if not put it to shame. I'd sometimes drive around parts of it and be like, "You see everything we've driven around for the last 20 minutes? Didn't exist when I was about 10 or 15.", a whole metropolis was built around me. I didn't like it at first. The UAE in general lost a sort of personal touch and humanity they used to show us ajanabis that just withered away where their behavior toward us became dispassionate and very transactional which made sense given that we ajanabis were pushing like 8.5 million in number but it hurt at first and disillusioned me.

I eventually did come around to being in such a bustling city and look back fondly at the UAE in general. Will always be my home in a way, especially with hooyo iyo aabo still living there but yeah, the cosmopolitanism... even prior to the boom it was pretty multi-ethnic. Childhood friends were from everywhere. Macedonian, Sudanese, Filipino, Tanzanian Desis, Iranians, Arabs of all sorts, Pakistanis, Black Khaleejis, Russians, Chinese, White Americans... and when I got to college Nigerians, Kazakhs, Indians... I'll always appreciate the love of humanity and groundedness it cultivated in from a young age:

Most truly serious racists who aren't opportunistic psychopaths come off to me as people who've never truly interacted with a member of the group they're otherizing. Either they've only had surface level interactions or seriously no interactions whatsoever.

Some more frothing at the mouth ajanabi haters on this forum come off as such too, no offense.

Reminds me of this former Neo-Nazi Italian dude who very quickly began to feel ashamed and backtrack when he actually regularly interacted with and befriended Madows and Muslims on a real and personal level:



I grew up in a very multi ethnic environment myself. My closest friends growing up were from everywhere from the Balkans to Iran to all over the Arab world, Desis, Southeast and East Asians, various parts of Africa and even some Cadaans. Whenever I'd even think to be influenced by weird shit I read on the internet I'd picture one of my friends whom I honestly loved or their parents who were always like second parents to me when I visited their house and I couldn't bring myself to hold such absurd views.

We're all Human. There are some surface level phenotypical differences and some cultural and religious ones but at the end of the day everyone's talking about the same shit. "Oh, my boyfriend cheated on me! ... My boss is such a prick! ... I'm in love with this girl, bro! ... Hey, did you catch last night's game?!" Same shit, different faces. Anyone who's been outside and met enough people knows this inherently from a young age. Weirdos like this, if they're not just trolling, really need to get a life and touch grass.

 

[Idilinaa]

I often japed that I never had to travel the world, the world travelled to me.



Was honestly surreal. When I was born in Dubai and during my first 5-10 years of life there it was largely an irrelevant backwater. Other than the Burj al-Arab, which only came a bit after my birth, it had little to its name and was as well known as pre-World Cup Doha or the capital of Bahrain, Manama, which I actually had to Google in order to jog my memory just so you realize how irrelevant it is.

Yet from the time I was about 10 until I left a little over a year ago at the age 28 it became a global city on everyone's lips as much as London, Tokyo or New York City. An ethnic melting pot that would give the Big Apple a run for its money if not put it to shame. I'd sometimes drive around parts of it and be like, "You see everything we've driven around for the last 20 minutes? Didn't exist when I was about 10 or 15.", a whole metropolis was built around me. I didn't like it at first. The UAE in general lost a sort of personal touch and humanity they used to show us ajanabis that just withered away where their behavior toward us became dispassionate and very transactional which made sense given that we ajanabis were pushing like 8.5 million in number but it hurt at first and disillusioned me.

I eventually did come around to being in such a bustling city and look back fondly at the UAE in general. Will always be my home in a way, especially with hooyo iyo aabo still living there but yeah, the cosmopolitanism... even prior to the boom it was pretty multi-ethnic. Childhood friends were from everywhere. Macedonian, Sudanese, Filipino, Tanzanian Desis, Iranians, Arabs of all sorts, Pakistanis, Black Khaleejis, Russians, Chinese, White Americans... and when I got to college Nigerians, Kazakhs, Indians... I'll always appreciate the love of humanity and groundedness it cultivated in from a young age:

No wonder you are so good at impressions and accents, it must come from that cosmopolitan upbringing. You are like a human sound board.

Couldn't agree more with that post you linked. Couldn't have said it better myself.

But it gave me an epiphany reading it, that people should actually limited their internet and social media usage and go out to interact and expose ourselves to more people, face to face.

That's when your world broadens and that's where true connection lies.

 

[Shimbiris]

No wonder you are so good at impressions and accents, it must come from that cosmopolitan upbringing. You are like a human sound board.

Couldn't agree more with that post you linked. Couldn't have said it better myself.

But it gave me an epiphany reading it, that people should actually limited their internet and social media usage and go out to interact and expose ourselves to more people, face to face.

That's when your world broadens and that's where true connection lies.

Absolutely. I don't always stick to my philosophy but my general mindset toward the internet is "Use & Produce, never Consume". Meaning use it to acquire information and knowledge like I often do on this forum interacting with you and some others or through reading books, listening to university lectures and so on; then produce your own useful content for the world around you like informative blog posts, published papers if you can, beneficial YouTube content, and even social media posts that are fun and make you look back fondly; but do not sit around doomscrolling, watching others live life and binging tv-shows or at least keep this to an absolute minimum.

That last one is how ninjas like Zuck profit while you suffer and watch life pass you by.

 

[Ximan iyo Xadeed]

Most of the haters are Kikuyus who are Bantu, we get along nilotes and Nilo/cush mix like the Masaai.

You never been to Kenya


Kikuyus and Somalis are business partners, dont let the anti Somali hate fool you.

 

[Idilinaa]

Absolutely. I don't always stick to my philosophy but my general mindset toward the internet is "Use & Produce, never Consume". Meaning use it to acquire information and knowledge like I often do on this forum interacting with you and some others or through reading books, listening to university lectures and so on; then produce your own useful content for the world around you like informative blog posts, published papers if you can, beneficial YouTube content, and even social media posts that are fun and make you look back fondly; but do not sit around doomscrolling, watching others live life and binging tv-shows or at least keep this to an absolute minimum.

That last one is how ninjas like Zuck profit while you suffer and watch life pass you by.

It's different from when we were growing up as kids. Now you have people going on a trip or going on a night out but instead of enjoying it snapping a few photos here and there with friends or family or even with interesting people you meet. You have a whole lot people walking around pointing a camera at themselves vlogging or what have you. It's no longer a collaborative experience as much.

People on the buss, train, walking are face down on their smartphone.

So people are not really present anymore and soaking in their surroundings and experience when they are out and about. Even giving eye contact and conversing with people has become less, whereas more prefer to do it over applications on the phone.

Even the photos we used to take held memories you put in a photo album you looked back on but now every photo is some selfie or something vacuous and empty.

Even peoples home life have changed. I went to one of my friends house and his whole family were in their room on their laptops, phone, ipad or playing games the whole entire stay.

When i was growing up i spent most of my time in the living room with my family. Until i went to bed or changed clothes or studied or had friends over. That's why it was called ''the living room'' or i was outside playing, running around.

Think about how much we consume from the digital space vs what we produce , you start it realize is just an extension consumer capitalism. I think that's why I am starting to become more disillusioned with the digital age we live in. I really believe it's something that is eroding our very social fabric