>be me, Somali>grow up in an area with a bunch of blacks>don't meet other Somalis until teenage years>we don't get along at all due to culture differences (i'm not super religious, meanwhile they were all very uptight, bitter and incelly)>also ostracized since they basically viewed me as another black ( they were all weirdly racist despite being black), I did mostly hang out with the local nerdy black dudes anyway>entire ordeal leaves me not having high regards to my own people>ff to today>somalis getting dragged on social media constantly>physically don't look much like the stereotype (look like picrel from the Skate trailer), never instantly clocked as somali until I tell someone directly, so not really effected much>Schadenfreude and weird sense of satisfication despite also being a target hereAm I a fucking retard for thinking this way? i've never been so damn conflicted in my life. I feel like I shouldn't feel this way towards any group of people let alone my own.
>>84004677Ok realized this doesn't really read well after posting>grow up chill with other black dudes>not chill with somali dudes i meet later in lifehope that clears it up
>>84004677>Am I a fucking retard for thinking this way?No. It's a common experience in the US. Lots of 3rd/4th gen latinos are like this too. They get bullied by "more authentic" 1st/2nd gen latinos, get stuck in a permanent limbo between identities, and experience schadenfreude when those "more authentic" ones suffer misfortune.Part and parcel of your ancestors moving to a melting pot.
>>84004677Nah I think that the way you feel is completely valid.Somalis have a bad reputation everywhere, so I understand your frustration. There's not much that you can do about this unfortunately, maybe the government getting rid of these people will clear out the name for decent folks like you. I'm Spaniard and kinda have the same issue. My people are loud and obnoxious when traveling, barely speak English also. Wouldn't be surprised if we're considered to be one of the worst tourists in Europe (the Irish do afaik)
>>84004716>Part and parcel of your ancestors moving to a melting pot.nice knowing that its a common thing people go through atleast>>84004738eh I don't care much about the reputation thing since i don't bring up my race much; I've found most people irl don't care either from the few times I've really had to bring it up. once someone sees you and talks to you they've already made a pretty solid impression of you in their head and extra info about you doesn't change much about it.
>>84004677not uncommon. i have resentment toward my own kind for the bullying i experienced at their hands as well
>>84004677Do you have that light bulb skull shape?
>>84004716>your ancestors moving to a melting potIf you're of native blood the melting pot moved to you.
>>84004677>also ostracized since they basically viewed me as another blackThank you so much for mentioning this. What's up with somalis thinking they're not African? As a west African I really don't like them anyway but it's so bizarre to me, do they not know what they look like?
>>84004929they're muslims first and blacks second
>>84004677Warya black hawk down on the starboard bow, ready your sails men. They left it all, in one piece. At the daycare center.YO
>>84004677naw immigrants are cunts who come over here and think they get to enforce their cultural bullshit in our culture. fuck them. hope all somalis get deported
>>84004677I'm Somali and one time a jeet mistook me for an Indian. I was never more offended, almost told him to walk the plank.
>>84004885no jaw too big and head too small for it>>84004929Its pretty much what >>84004935 says, some unironically call themselves arab from what i've seen online
>>84004677Nah you're totally in the right, if you had the misfortune of being born into a subhuman group all you can do is cope and detach yourself from it as much as you can.That's what I do.
>>84004935>>84004970Arabs colonized Africa with islam. And the worst part is, arabs hate africans and enslave them. Muslim Africans are beyond retarded
>>84004677Fucking hate you somalis. You LARP as arabs and call every other black jareers. Meanwhile arabs HATE you.
>>84004952This, multiculturalism is fake and gay, the concept of the blank slate is evil. Immigration can be great for a country so long as its highly regulated with people most culturally and genetically similar getting preferential access. Only Brain draining the top percentile of literal western educated stem workers in needed jobs and having a Saudi Arabia style unskilled labour or underemployed sectors can be beneficial for a nation.
>>84004677Imma keep it real my nigga. You're not special and there is nothing inherently retarded or wrong with feeling some type of way when your people are the ones on some fuck shit or you have had negative interactions with them. It would be different if you were racist against your own kind in an attempt to suck up to white people but if you genuinely have had nothing but negative interactions with them, because they are too ethnic, they're dickheads, or they've been close-minded crabs in a bucket then it is just a group of people that you don't get along with.
>>84004677first mistake is asking a forum filled with wh*tes, when they don't know wtf they're talking about nor do they bother telling black ethnic groups apart 90% of the time
>>84005139>>840046772nd of all, somalis spent YEARS telling everyone how they aren't black and shitting on the rest of the diaspora. Similar to Indians they tried to assimilate into white supremacy and failed miserably, and everyone has been clowning them because of it.
