Somali diasporas greatest advantage

[Midas]

Something i realized after thinking about our diaspora for a while. And it hit me like a truck although on hindsight it's pretty obvious. The greatest advantage somalis have in the diaspora is that we love building insututiosnf for some reason. Charter schools, dugsi, museums, culutral organizations, businesses, etc, . It was only after I started to think about other immigrant groups that I realized how odd it is that we do this. The onky other people that I'm aware of who do something like this at the scale we do is jews and the Chinese. I mean have you eve head of any affican immigrants besides somalis open up their own charter schools?

Are obsession with building parallel instutions i suspect will have massive benefits over the long term im thinking 30-40 years down the line.

 

[JamalFarah]

Years ago in places like Tanzania and South Africa people still call Somalis the jews of Africa. Somalis would pool money together and start a business, hire only Somalis for the entire work place and profits would then be invested in another Somali who would start another business in a different city or district.

 

[Idilinaa]

Something i realized after thinking about our diaspora for a while. And it hit me like a truck although on hindsight it's pretty obvious. The greatest advantage somalis have in the diaspora is that we love building insututiosnf for some reason. Charter schools, dugsi, museums, culutral organizations, businesses, etc, . It was only after I started to think about other immigrant groups that I realized how odd it is that we do this. The onky other people that I'm aware of who do something like this at the scale we do is jews and the Chinese. I mean have you eve head of any affican immigrants besides somalis open up their own charter schools?

Are obsession with building parallel instutions i suspect will have massive benefits over the long term im thinking 30-40 years down the line.

Newly arrived African Immigrants are always amazed at this, seen a couple of videos of them talking about this.