I have never seen an immigrant community with such high levels of self-hatred than the Somali diaspora. You have people claiming to be mixed with other ethnics, people who flat out refuse to even identify themselves as Somali but as some other group, and people who will date and marry anyone and anything that isn't Somali. Just the other day, I saw a guy I haven't seen since we were young kids. I went up to him and greeted him, and he claimed he didn't know who I was or who I was talking about. He claimed to be Eritrean and had nothing to do with Somalis, even though we both knew that was a boldfaced lie.
What can we do to address this self-hatred phenomenon that is sending ripples through the diasporan community?
What can we do to address this self-hatred phenomenon that is sending ripples through the diasporan community?