Abdisamad
VIP
Somali lineage is passed through the father.. You belong to your fathers tribe and you family name goes through your father's lineage, it's something we are saying to limit you as a woman but this is actually how our culture is built... When you marry out your kids won't have a tribe who is Somali, belonging to a Somali tribe and being able to trace down your lineage is what makes you a Somali otherwise you'll be considered an ajnabi.The reason why Somali men are obsessed with saying that their lineage passes through them and not Somali women is because they want access to non Somali women but do not want Somali women to do the same. It’s pretty much just hypocrisy, most of the mixed ones who tend to stray from their dhaqan and deen have Somali fathers it’s just facts. Personally even my half Filipino cousins are so out of touch with their Somali side and yearn to be accepted by their Asian half, my friends cousins are even ashamed to be half Somali and say their only Portuguese