Just thought about this. There are more than 1,500,000 people outside the country right now and an entire generation grown up in foreign countries and cultures. These people are also spread out all over the world even in freaking Mongolia!
In the many countries Somalis live in, there are very few places where there's a big community of Somalis clustering together. Most diaspora infact are very isolated and live in small cities/towns in their countries.
The original plan was "when the civil war ends we go back immediately and everything goes back to normal" but this shit has been going on for more than 25 years now and a whole generation has been raised outside Somalia.
2021 will be 30 years since the government officially collapsed and the mass exodus began and unless things drastically change in Somalia before 2021 some very interesting will happen to the million people in the diaspora.
2021 is an important year because the generation of very assimilated Somalis raised in foreign lands will start to have kids of their own. Their kids will now be even worse at being Somali than their parents and hope of going back will reduce generation after generation. these people will start to form strong roots in their respective countries.
Just imagine. How extremely sad but interesting it will be in 50 or so years from now seeing lost Somalis all over the world in strange places like Russia and Brazil. Living like the Jews or Gypsies. Different communities could even develop their own sub cultures. Some would start to speak Swedish/German/Finish Creole while others speak some Zulu creole
My point is being Somali will be completely redefined if the diaspora becomes permanent and develops roots in their countries.
Or maybe this won't happen because we don't live in the 1500s since we are very connected with each other via the internet meaning we will never get to see weird Somali communities in strange places on earth.
Whatever happens I would love to a live in 2050-60 and see what happened to Somalis. The future seems very interesting.
In the many countries Somalis live in, there are very few places where there's a big community of Somalis clustering together. Most diaspora infact are very isolated and live in small cities/towns in their countries.
The original plan was "when the civil war ends we go back immediately and everything goes back to normal" but this shit has been going on for more than 25 years now and a whole generation has been raised outside Somalia.
2021 will be 30 years since the government officially collapsed and the mass exodus began and unless things drastically change in Somalia before 2021 some very interesting will happen to the million people in the diaspora.
2021 is an important year because the generation of very assimilated Somalis raised in foreign lands will start to have kids of their own. Their kids will now be even worse at being Somali than their parents and hope of going back will reduce generation after generation. these people will start to form strong roots in their respective countries.
Just imagine. How extremely sad but interesting it will be in 50 or so years from now seeing lost Somalis all over the world in strange places like Russia and Brazil. Living like the Jews or Gypsies. Different communities could even develop their own sub cultures. Some would start to speak Swedish/German/Finish Creole while others speak some Zulu creole
My point is being Somali will be completely redefined if the diaspora becomes permanent and develops roots in their countries.
Or maybe this won't happen because we don't live in the 1500s since we are very connected with each other via the internet meaning we will never get to see weird Somali communities in strange places on earth.
Whatever happens I would love to a live in 2050-60 and see what happened to Somalis. The future seems very interesting.
