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Why are somalis so formal in the way the conduct them selfs with strangers especaily another somali. Have you guys wondered or witness this in our somali culture??

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i.e---- Young man in 19 to 22 at grocery store....is approched by man in mid 40's " hey boy come help me find me this (item) " Dude is thinking does this bastard think am his song or waaw??? but the guy helps the camal herder lost in walmart....



i.e 2 ___ in a somali restruant for lunch ....waiter is some guy in his mid 30s you are in 17
waiter asks what u want in rude way " what do you want!!!" and then asks you whos son are you and starts taking to u about personal stuff .....


i.e3 you at college and these somalis start to talk to u and are like tring to figure u out and ask u some dumb ass questions .. where u from etc? or even worse ask you for help with some class work!!!

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Older somali people are ususally demanding and out right offense towards younger people that are somali weather you are buying somthing from a 99 cent or restruant .....not good business tack...



younger somalis think that most of there friends or people they deal with has to be somalis and that every somali should be formal with them n vise verse???



Walhia its really creepy when a whole society is formal and in your business

any formalities? some u getting offended??

I got offended. Fuuck you, you toothless piece of shiit.

I am glad to hear that you made my day! trow ur feces on wall now caged monkey

I hate them when they call me waryaa kalay.
i'm like only my father can call me waryaa and he doesn't even call me waryaa.lol

The concept of courtesy and politness have different meanings, nuances,and connotations depending on where a person was nutured and grew up. You might be experiencing clashes between reer badiye and reer magaal. Reer badiye love to live in city but want to behave as if they still live in the bushes!

Thank god I don't look like average somali. Strangers usually don't know I am somali, so I don't get that from strangers only people I know. The best thing about not looking somali you get to eavesdrop on some private conversations.

^ what do you look like? What nationalities do people confuse you for?