Postby Aliyah99 » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:04 pm
If you are going to debate this topic intelligently then you should distinguish between the effects of qaad in the West and back home, the negative effects of Qaad are more profoundly felt in the West, because Somalis in the Western world use qaad differently and have different social and emotional problems. In the UK for example, the qaad is consumed at night, they stay awake all night and this makes it almost impossible for them to function normally. They can't wake up the next morning and do a 9-5 job. Most are unemployed and depressed. Back home they consume it in the afternoon, after lunch..and go to sleep at a normal time and most wake up and go about their daily business at 7am sharp.
The negative effects of qaad are excarbated by the problems faced by most somali males in the West, Unemployment (the depression and lack of self worth resulting from this), the fact that most of them have to reconcile themselves with being at the bottom of the social ladder as refugees in the West (In Somalia they as males were top of the pile)
