They copy whatever ethnic groups they neighborOromos have more variety with cultural clothes than us whatβs up with the diracs bruh
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i can see why they copy us
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We carry ourselves in a certain way. Our walk can't be imitated. It doesn't matter if other groups look remotely similar; they don't have that essence. A natural regality that is effortless is our thing!
Abaayo thatβs not their own clothes or cultural practice either. This is a Somali suufi tradition of bun in saliid. Itβs a spiritual practice, my family donβt practice this so I canβt give you all the details but itβs definitely 100% Somali.
Also of course theyβre also wearing guuntino, which is also a Somali custom but a dying one. Itβs sad how a lot of our cultural is getting stolen but FOBs are busy with fadhi ku dirir and Bollywood.
Dirac came to Somalis post 1950s. The majority of our grandmothers didnβt wear it in their youth.
I understand feeling like this about Guuntiino but deffo not about Dirac. We canβt be like this about something we only stayed wearing half a century ago.
Also, bordering nations always wore something thatβs similar to each other.
Maybe, Iβm wrong and need to be more wadani but if you look at every group, youβll see that their neighbors wear similar clothing and lucky Somalis being plentiful and a famous ethnic group, Dirac and the rest will always be associated more with us.
I understand feeling like this about Guuntiino but deffo not about Dirac. We canβt be like this about something we only stayed wearing half a century ago.
Also, bordering nations always wore something thatβs similar to each other.
Maybe, Iβm wrong and need to be more wadani but if you look at every group, youβll see that their neighbors wear similar clothing and lucky Somalis being plentiful and a famous ethnic group, Dirac and the rest will always be associated more with us.
I think people get way too obsessed over other people wearing dirac. But it actually is contrary to pouplar belief from somalia.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Aden Heritage Centre detailing what Somalis already know, namely that Somali women created Diracs, it further states how Somalis brought it to Aden.<br><br>The real question is why do diaspora Oromos have this strange envy over a culture that is not their own. You never see the inverse <a href="https://t.co/9v7EDP1myF">https://t.co/9v7EDP1myF</a> <a href="https://t.co/VdyzKunhWH">pic.twitter.com/VdyzKunhWH</a></p>— unknown (@thetipofthehorn) <a href="">November 29, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
This community creeps me out more than others. Maybe we should return the favour and start doing their hair whipping dance and carry around Broccoli flags.
Bantu girls tend to have solid frames, and the diracs make them look stocky, instead of elegant. I wish they'd understand that everyone has traditional garments for a reason.
Read it was created by Reer Djibouti women in the 50s to 60s supposedly. I just feel like the history of Diraac is murky compared to letβs say Guuntino which was the national dress of all of us and worn by all of our female ancestors.
Personally, I couldnβt care less about appropriation. Diraac will be forever mostly associated with Somalis and every group of people that border each other have similar clothes and Somalis being historically traders traded a lot, hence why we have outside influences and people have been influenced by us.
Just because a cultural item is βnewβ doesnβt mean itβs not ours.
For example baatiβs (and particularly how we wear them with gorgoraad and shawl) are an invention of the 70βs.
Somali women traders in SEA would buy fabrics and sell the extras as pyjamas. The people started styling them in our own unque Somali fashion. The sales of baatiβs with matching sets grew etc.
There is a reason why we call ourselves maryoleey and why all our clothing etc has a similar style etc. just like how Nigerians have their fitted dresses, Somalis like long materials with an underdress that is made with bright materials.
For example baatiβs (and particularly how we wear them with gorgoraad and shawl) are an invention of the 70βs.
Somali women traders in SEA would buy fabrics and sell the extras as pyjamas. The people started styling them in our own unque Somali fashion. The sales of baatiβs with matching sets grew etc.
There is a reason why we call ourselves maryoleey and why all our clothing etc has a similar style etc. just like how Nigerians have their fitted dresses, Somalis like long materials with an underdress that is made with bright materials.
The issue is not with people wearing random outfits, it's the fact that they claim it as THEIR CULTURE. The audacity is what's annoying and disrespectful.
Oh I can't read arabic. But yeah I've never had problems with culutral appropriation. Since that's how culutre works. It'd more that when I started looking into what a lot of somalis assume is influence from yemenis. Since they see we both share . That I realized these shared culutres are something that is more based around south yemen and specifically Aden. Then I realized it's more likely that culutural stuff that is shared by all Somalis and only the souther part of yemen is likely to be of somali origin. There's even this video of that one famous Arab youtuber who goes to diffrent countiees I think his name is Joe something. But anyway he went to a town in yemen and they had a small warrior festival. The shields and spear while a diffrnwt color had the same shape and size as the somali ones. And I thought to myself that's 100% a somali influence and they have no idea.
It wss actually a wedding practice of the grooms. Not a warrior festival.
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