Post from a Somali Social Worker on r/Somalia
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LilBang
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What a dumbass nigga you are, I was obviously trolling with the qashins I was giving you and you dont even know who I really am outside of the internet1: I was never raised in some ghetto area, I grew up in a lower middle class townhouse neighborhood
2: I do listen to my parents very well
3: I never lived in Cedar/Minneapolis/Minnesota nor have I been there my whole entire life (Im from Seattle btw)
4: I’ve never fcking sold drugs nor have I caused trouble nor have I ever gotten into any legal troubles smh
1: I was never raised in some ghetto area, I grew up in a lower middle class townhouse neighborhood
2: I do listen to my parents very well
3: I never lived in Cedar/Minneapolis/Minnesota nor have I been there my whole entire life (Im from Seattle btw)
4: I’ve never fcking sold drugs nor have I caused trouble nor have I ever gotten into any legal troubles smh
Abti, you are good in my book then. I support all good kids who respect their community and their parents.
Don't contribute to the hate and lies aimed at somalis. Fight them like a son of Somali. My parents are dead but I cherish my cultural heritage and nothing on this world and no country is worth a trade for the gift given to me by God. Allah created both the Somali Ethnicity and Somali language, that fact alone puts both the language and The Ethnicity in a rank of their own.
We shouldn't let other human beings disprespect us. And any somali who partakes in the campaign by racists deserves harsh treatment like they enemy they sided with.
Every community and ethnicity has its boatload of issues, and Somalis and Somalia are no different. Imperfections in a society aren't a license to hate or denegrate said society. We are still a nation of poets, prestige and good cultural heritage that goes back thousands of years.
Somali women actually face higher levels of unemployment in the formal sector of the economy and the private sector which are usually dominated by men in Somalia.
Where they are the main drivers is in the informal mico sector where they usually become street vendors selling fruits , vegetables like in that video and even sell khat in places like Hargeisa but its mostly seen as a coping mechanism and there is greater drive and push for them to work more in the private sector and the larger formal sector and usually led by female diaspora arrivals.
But in general unemployment levels in Hargeisa is the highest in Somalia , higher than in Puntland and Mogadishu of 20% and 30% vs 75% in Hargeisa. There are more youth that are unemployed than there are adult. Only 15% of adults are unemployed compared with 30/20% of youth.
And it's not better for graduates either , this is partly reason why back a few years ago there were many youth tahribers were from Somaliland because the lack of job oppurtunities they faced.
I am not really sure what they have done in Hargeisa to address this but in Mogadishu they launched job placement schemes and even ones for female graduates
Somalia: Job Placement Scheme for Female Graduates Launched in Mogadishu
The true female economic empowerment is when there is higher corporate participation and political participation and decision making.
But in general they need to attract more investments and more job creation, to widen the scarce job market.
It's because they hear slander and complaints by disgruntled individuals in their gender war antics on the web and trying to lend credibility to it in their weaponization against Somalis or they are trying to establish false correlation between Somali and Black Americans , who btw have their own cultural and structural barriers and problems specific to their own community.
Contrary to what @Kisame is spewing, the main problem social workers face with Somali parents is language barriers and outside of that Somali parents are highly cooperative, respectful and keen/open on improving their children's development.
That's why Somali youth are able to raise their educational attainment levels significantly that they end up doing better than native communities in a span of few years.
It's not just Lambeth. The stats i showed above it was for Somalis in London schools in general which includes Camden and Tower Hamlet.
Between 2007 and 2013 Somalis were already outperforming white british pupils.
Between 2013-2015 they were outperforming the national average
You can also see this as a trend for Somalis in different parts of the UK outside of London, that they are just outperforming other groups.
Success Starts in the Classroom for Somalis in Leicester
Speaking the Language of Success
One of the largest Somali communities in the UK finds that early investments in education, such as bilingual teachers and active parental involvement, are paying off.www.opensocietyfoundations.org
When you make replies to my posts and is completely uninterested in the major improvements Somalis have made all you do is expose yourselves. And the motives behind these threads yall rinse.
This is true, Somalis and other east Africans who speak their mother tongue at home are outpeforming English speaking natives in Seattle for example.
It shows that dual-lingualism is not a significant educational barrier.
This can't happen with piss poor neglectful parents, but only if they value education and cooperate with educators and are involved.
As the studies stress:
Somali parents are actually mostly good parents that go out of their way for their children and make many sacrifices along the way. If they do face hardships they aren't awarded any sympathy like you can see on this thread and despite that they press on-wards. To me it's very inspiring and commendable.
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