ElPunto;731341 wrote:
An ugly comment but a reality. That (some)Somalis would aspire to emulate and copulate with a group that for a host of reasons is in the lowest category of human development in the States and Canada with sky high levels of drug abuse, out of wedlock births, incarceration rates, absentee fathers, etc etc. says a lot about how low Somalis have come. We have a different language, religion, culture and history to almost every other group in the West - but we've chosen disproportionately to identify with blacks. Why?
Excuse me, but we are Black. I think you should correct yourself and say African American/Carribbean.
Anyways, to answer your question. Our people came here as refugees with no education/money at all. The majority lived in government housing and depended on the government. Due to the war, husbands either stayed back or died and thus, the women raised 10 + kids on their own. Because we mostly lived in the ghettos, the kids were educated in the worst school as well the area is rife with drugs/prostitution/out of wedlock. Basically, you are a product of your environment, point blank! Parents can't complain that their kids are drugdealers or have kids at 18 because they raised them in the ghetto.