I gotta laugh whenever I remember the story of this Somali guy who went to India to marry a girl from there. Due to the caste system in India, most of Somalis who got married there are only marrying women from lower caste groups. These castes are based on professions. Well, this Somali guy married this gal whose profession is shoe-shining. Basically, that is where her caste does.
Guess what, every time someone visits that family, this girl is right in the yard, shining their shoes. The husband has told her many times to stop it, and if she wants to shine shoes, she coud do his shoes only. But how do you stop something that is pre-programmed in her brain? She has been doing it from her childhood. Perhaps she didn't want to lose her skills. Who knows? She became a butt joke of all of the people who knew that family to the point where the husband had to let her go.
Bottom line, unless the Somalis who are going there are marrying professional Indian women with good upbringing, they are basically getting into a whole lot of package that will give some of them a nightmare. I don't like to disrespect other human beings, but reality is the caste system in India is brutal and it victimized whole lot of people. To the Somali guys who are contemplating on going there, they definitely need to know the grass is not always green on the other side.
Inaalillah







