What is it about minorities succeeding that makes ethnic Somalis look bad? Somali families sure as hell don’t think themselves inferior to minorities. Is there some defect in our culture that limits our success in sporting industries. We’re the same as Inda yar and Hindis. Parents have a strong preference on academics and ignore sports even if their child has massive talent, they see it as a waste. There’s nothing about minorities succeeding that makes us look bad. It’s just perception. The new generation of Somali kids will produce more athletes because the parents lived/ grew up in the west and aren’t so dismissive towards their kids dreams. There will be Somalis is new career paths, both just the typical doctor lawyer engineer.
"We’re the same as Inda yar and Hindis. Parents have a strong preference on academics and ignore sports even if their child has massive talent"
Big reach because compared to the indayar and hindis we don't have a bunch of Somali men that were being raised to become doctors and engineers since birth here in the west.
Obviously we got a bunch of successful Somali lads out there but I don't think it's because our parents were focused on education only like Asian families.
I genuinely believe our parents didn't believe there were other pathways to success outside of school. A lot of our parents did the bare minimum in raising Somali kids too. A majority of the time these successful Somali guys in stem fields barely had help from their parents. Also like other Somali kids My biggest obstacle when it came to participating in sports or clubs growing up were my parents.
Somali parents had kids just to have them. Asian families had kids and made sure to try and raise them to become successful. That's why so many of their kids are attending the best universities across the nation.