Are we losing our culture

I'll address your points one by one:
More people are wearing Arab clothes
I assume you mean the hijab and Qamiis. Both are which are Islamic clothings that have been worn in our culture since we embraced Islam roughly centuries ago.

People are starting to not speak Somali at all and instead speak Arabic
That's just simply not true. Somalis overwhelming speak Somali and the minority of the ones in the West who don't speak Somali well, speak English not Arabic.

The vibe I get is you saw maybe an isolated instance and projected that to be the norm.
No such thing as Islamic clothing. Islam is a set of guidelines given by Allah (swt). Afterwhich it functions as a cultural filter. What is halal in the culture is good, and what is bad is haram. Power to it if an Arab garment ,khamiis, passes through said filter. However, as Islam is a religion for all people and not all cultures wear that particular type of clothing, this does not constitute it Islamic apparel.
 
More people are wearing Arab things, and people are starting to not speak Somali at all and instead speak Arabic, these are the same people that look down at us as if we’re inferior, why do we keep doing this to our culture??
Our culture is primarily oral. Many people who were meant to preserve the culture were killed as a result of the war. Additionally, those who survived were either too traumatized or too preoccupied to pass it on. This only serves to demonstrate how horrific war is. This also implies that we have only a limited amount of time to record everything and anything that the elder generation has to pass down. If not, it will truly be lost.
 

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Let us appropriate the abaya and the khamis, they look drippy. Most of the worllds muslims do not wear khamis & abaya because they are arab clothing, its because they are nice and look good. Most somalis wear western clothing so its a moot point to address the fact we wear arab clothing ( the men in particular, women also ).
 

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We will not lose our culture. The core of our culture is intact and we will have cultural resurgence when the conditions back home improve. This recent self-hate phenomena which affects only small small minority of somalis only happened due to the destruction of the civil war.

Culture will be lost when the language is lost and I don’t think that will happen anytime soon.
 
Let us appropriate the abaya and the khamis, they look drippy. Most of the worllds muslims do not wear khamis & abaya because they are arab clothing, its because they are nice and look good. Most somalis wear western clothing so its a moot point to address the fact we wear arab clothing ( the men in particular, women also ).
+1. However, for the love of God. Let us have our own style of khamiis. Even little Bahrain and Qatar have their own way of wearing it. Meanwhile, we're out here mish-mashing styles from the Maghreb to Yemen.
 

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