QansaxMeygaag

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    xiinfaniin;908858 wrote:
    An organization led by Aynte, Hashi, and Ms Asha Elmi does not promise much in national sense. But it signifies a step in the right direction in so far as Mogadishu's local politics is concern.

    Why not; what's wrong with the three people you mention?

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    As the sawaaxil say "your old prayer mat is better than the brand new one owned by the passer-by". Let's build our tattered old rug and there will be no need for someone else's spanking new one.

     

    That said, this is inhuman. A relative just came back from KSA and they would not even give her travel papers after 20 yrs over there. She had to travel on the good old Somali passport...20 effing years? That's just plain wrong.

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    Godfather, Mario Puzo, under the covers - went to a Fundamentalist Xtian school (don't get any ideas, I ain't one) and it was banned coz it had some racy parts, the school chaplain did not consider it a "wholesome read"...remember the wedding scene where a certain someone goes upstairs for some serious business...Ok am exaggerating, but your parents would be called and all for reading such naughty books...

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    I say we intermarry like it is going out of fashion, breed afresh like crazy rabbits, and in a generation or two there will be mongrels rather than pure clans every which way you turn - that will surely confound the qabyalists and make a mockery of ours versus theirs...

     

    Till that utopian time arrives (drum rolls please), Taleexi's suggestion is best - mix of local autonomy via a local assembly and a federally administered capital, am completely agnostic where that capital will be so long as, as Taleexi says, the "original owners" of that place agree to the terms and conditions of being a federal capital.

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    The version I heard is that they were called "reer diide" - they refused their reer, moved out and intermarried with Samburu and Maasai to form a new, unique culture - but me thinks it is just Somali exceptionalism, oh aren't we great, aren't all people descended from us baloney. A worrying trend I see is reer galbeeds thinking all Somalis "evolved" from there...

     

    The Gabra also cushitic cousins have some words very similar to Somali e.g. the original cushitic word for geel, gaal (as in ******, gaaljecel - father/lover of camels). Also, I was shocked to see in an anthropology text, the traditional Gabra way of saying sorry was to buy sheep and tie it to a tree somewhere in the middle of the village i.e. like "subeen-xir".

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    Xaaji Xunjuf;907535 wrote:
    Are you referring to the Ethnic Somali identity or the National Somali identity.

    Ethnic Xaaji, which in the case of Somalia overlaps a great deal with the national. Don't ask me to quantify "a great deal", short of up-to-date population figures, I am talking qualitatively here. I am aware that the two have been conflated and as a result great injustice done to those who are Somali by nationality/citizenship (not ethnicity) as a result of this conflation e.g. for lack of better words, Somali "Bantu" and other non-ethnic groups...

     

    Perhaps the oxymoron "Somalian" to distinguish citizenship from ethnicity is not that bad a term afterall?

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    Your core identity is that which you can't change (Somali I'd say, try going to a river and washing it out...); you can change religion and with modern technology even sex. Identity is very complex and difficult to reduce it to an either/or argument...

     

    Don't be so sure about clan identity; it can be changed. There are many sub-clans who have moved from their ancestral lands and moved into other areas and adopted other clans as their new identity. in my own clan, there are some sections known to have undergone such a transformation (both in-migrants and out-migrants). They are accepted and no one holds that against them...