Exactly literally weey ka faanayaan the title Somali and denigrate anything even remotely associated with their heritage. It's a predictable response to the trauma of civil war, but (some of you might disagree with this or feel offended) instead of setting up Somali schools where we teach our children about our history and language like the Jews, Chinese, or Koreans, our parents spend hundreds of dollars sending kids to dugsis where kids don't learn shit in all honesty.
Imagine if that time and money was spent instilling pride in young impressionable Somali kids facing a cultural clash and constant pressure to abandon their heritage and adopt the lifestyles/culture of whatever neighborhood they live in.
Well this goes back to the civil war and a lack of cultural capital from which can draw from. There is no somali media books, litterature,movies. No Somali production in an overall sense of anything.
Even the dugsis could work as a way to enforce Somali culture. But the instead of promoting our Somali cultural Islam, we promote arab cultural islam.
we have zero true authentic Somali Islamic institutions , scholars and books. That produce our own content , with our own interpretations that speak to our reality.
All we have is the free scholarships doled out by the alcoholic Al Sauds which has turned our scholars from benign Shafici Sufi scholars to extremist Salafis.
I have said it before & I will say it again. We either fund & promote our own culture or get corrupted by foreign interperations & ideologies, its as simple as that. But for that to happen we need to fix & control our homebase (Somalia) first.
All other ethnicities draw cultural capital from their homeland, with our homeland being in shambles and no production of anything of that regard to speak of, it's seem very unlikely.
