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Its that ignorant believe that arabs are somehow closer to the prophet (Pbuh) than other Muslims. So they'll try their best to imitate or even claim arab. They think that'll make them a better muslim.
Obviously not all of them are like that. But I have known quite few Somali salafis who swore up and down that we had a connection to arabs.
True some even believe you can't go to the mosque without wearing a khamees (Arab robe) . That day I realized Somalis are very
easily mislead. The Nigerian Muslims have their own traditional clothes (African garb) which they use in the mosque with pride, we should do something like that.