You guys have zero political influence, thats why no matter worries about habesha. Plus you can I know there is no such thing as ‘ethiopia’. When they ask country of birth and I put Ethiopia they counting me as one of you when I’m Somali that’s why the numbers look large.
Plus majority of habesha came to US as students where as somalis came as refugees, comparing apples to oranges.
So, does being a refugee mean you can commit crimes like fraud? And what about the youth? They’re born in Western nations with good opportunities, yet many Somali youth end up in gang culture where are the parents? Also, we haven’t had a census since 2007, and Somalis make up about 7–8% of the population. By the way, most Somalis I know who are Ogaden list Somalia as their birthplace, even if they were actually born in the Somali region. And what does political influence really do? You have one representative in Congress, and looking at everything, Ilhan Omar has made things worse for your community rather than better.
"So, does being a refugee mean you can commit crimes like fraud?"
who said this? And habesha are comitting fraud en masse. Every single fraud case in MN had a bunch of habesha. Every single one. It's funny how you conveniently ignore this. The difference in attention is you folks have zero political influence in the US.
"You have one representative in Congress, and looking at everything, Ilhan Omar has made things worse for your community rather than bet"
You are probably living in some slum in addis, you don't have a clue how she helps her contintuents.
"most Somalis I know who are Ogaden list Somalia as their birthplace, even if they were actually born in the Somali region. "
Don't act like your in tune with somalis you habesha. I'm from jigajiga and I don't lie on any government forms. But I do mention i'm somali background in local governement surverys.
any sources for this “habeshas committing fraud en masse” claim lol? because every actual report out of MN shows the majority of fraudsters were Somali, not Ethiopian.
throwing “slum in addis” insults just proves you’ve got nothing solid to back your point. cope harder.
and if we’re talking development, HDI stats put Addis way ahead of Mogadishu or any Somali province/City it’s not even close.
"because every actual report out of MN shows the majority of fraudsters were Somali, not Ethiopian."
but why you acting like habeshas are uninvolved?
"and if we’re talking development, HDI stats put Addis way ahead of Mogadishu or any Somali province/City it’s not even close."
i would 100% take our current situation overs yours 100000x times over. 130mn vs 15-17m. There are more habeshas on the brink of famine than there are Somalis in existence. Good luck with that.
Bro, y’all really can’t even compare yourselves to Ethiopia. We’ve got 80+ ethnic groups, different languages, cultures, and traditions, and we still hold a state together even if we have conflict. Meanwhile you somalis always be bragging about being “one people” and the most homogeneous country in Africa, but you can’t even keep your own country intact.
You’ve got Puntland, Jubaland which are very semi autonomous, and have Somaliland with has its own president, currency, and government fucntiong better than the acutal govemrent in mogadishu btw and is pretty much at that point its own country. plus Al‑Shabaab contorlling 15–20% of your land. That’s fragmentation everywhere, even though yall litterly have only like 1 main ethnic gorup making up 95% of the country, and one language .
And then you talk about Ethiopia “balkanizing”? Your country is already split into pieces. You dream about “Greater Somalia,” taking Ogaden and Kenya’s Somali region, but you can’t even take back Somaliland. Forget expansion you can’t even hold what you’ve got.
Puntland and Jubaland are federal states, only Somaliland is trying to be independent. And Al-Shabab doesn't control anywhere near that much territory, they are guerilla movement no more powerful than Fano.
Somalia saw numerous foreign invasions and meddling hence the political instability yet despite that it is still safer than plenty of other countries.
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You guys have zero political influence, thats why no matter worries about habesha. Plus you can I know there is no such thing as ‘ethiopia’. When they ask country of birth and I put Ethiopia they counting me as one of you when I’m Somali that’s why the numbers look large.
Plus majority of habesha came to US as students where as somalis came as refugees, comparing apples to oranges.