Salamu calikum, there is an Arab mahmah which says;" who's not good for his own people won't be good for any body else". I remember when I was in the elementary school my school principle used to put a big charity box in an observable corner at school & there where large posters of Somali dirty, crying children hanged on every single wall in the school. Somali children's population was large in the school community at that time & all of us knew each other .at the break time some of our school mates (Arabs) used to ask us is it true that your country is that much poor & that people are starving to death. As I said previously we were just kids so we used to lie, about me I used to say no this is not the real Somalia, Somalia is full of farms, great houses & friendly people (all that was based on my own imagination & on what my mother used to tell me about Somalia), some other children used to claim that they're Yemeni & got angry when ever any body called them Somalis. In the subconscious of every Somali who was born in an Arab country or at least spent a childhood there (especially the Gulf countries since they're the Arabs charity leaders) there is that picture of a starving child & believe me Isra if I told you that Arabs never thought of Somalia as the country of the savages whom didn't accept the American assistance, the only thing they remember is the starvation & I won't be surprised if I heard an Arab pointing at any starving black nation & calling them Somalis. Fatima sis, I do agree with you that the greatest thing in our culture is Islam, but I do believe too that there are lots of other things in our culture that we should be proud of. And About the other nationalities that imitate the afro-Americans I believe they're doing it because a subconscious feeling of inferiority moves them (the same feeling that moves some of our Somali brothers & sisters), thinking deep inside that by imitating gaalada they'll look more civilized……………thanx.
