"You scratch deeper, and their self-complacency seldom withstands the heat of analysis, temperamental like mercury.'
" We pity the somalis, my colleagues and i,' she said. But we cannot help our feeling that for a people who have brought a curse on their heads, they do not appear to have been HUMBLED by the experience in any way."
THIS IS FROM A BOOK BY NURUDDIN FARAH THAT I'M READING
Unbelievable. I cannot believe an outsider can know us so well. Somalis have a air of self righteousness/arrogance that When one gives us a reality dose of our embarassing place in the World, We get pissed off and cannot accept it displaying a false sense of contentment. In addition, We have not been brought down and humbled by what We have done to our Country and How We destroyed it. This lack of self realization is a big reason explains our predicament as if We were truly humbled as Somalis, We would have changed our situation.
It's not about lack of self realization, it's about lack of responsibility. Somalia is made up of around 7 million individuals and none of them feels responsible for the people's predicament.
Some even see opportunities in it.
SO TRUE AND I CAN'T BELEIVE THIS THREAD IS STILL GOING ON