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07-14-2010, 05:19 PM
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The more 'endogamous' a group are, the more threatened they feel about relationships outside their ethnic norm. Somalis are super endogamous (even for Horner standards IMO), only perhaps Indians and Middle Easterners are as anti-IR.
The stares are probably directed more at the Somali girl, than at you...which is why I dont think converting to Islam for the sake of the girl, is really a hard sacrifice a western man can do. Afterall, the girl has to put up with the hostile staring and even worse, back biting and shit talking about her reputation. The man converting to Islam, will ease up on the hostility.
You might be asking me..."Yo slick, why should I even bother converting for her, she didnt give a shit about y religion. She loved me for me." This is wrong because unlike the west, where individual > community, in Somali (and muslim culture) it's the other way around. Community is more important than the individual, and to be part of that community you might have to sacrifice your individuality and conform. No mean feat, your girl has to put up with a heckuva lot more psychological shit than you having to go to masjid from time to time.
It's not as bad when it's Somali male-non Somali female. But it's there...Ahni and I didnt get alot of stares from Somali men, however some somali females acted pretty weird. For eg, when I took Ahni to a Somali restaurant, these teenage Somali girls walked in, and they acted like they didnt even see us. And I know they did, because we were the centre of that lil restaurant's universe, we just had that aura about us. Yet they acted like we didnt exist, which is cute, because I know Somali women are proud and wouldnt want to look like they give a shit enough to not approve of what they see. But in their hearts I knew they were like "Damn, why is that guy being a traitor to his race?" Ahni also picked up on other vibes that I didnt, I will ask her to elaborate.
Anyways...besides Somali women, I felt like older White people didnt approve, like they felt like ahni let them down. Again, the pressure was on ahni, not on me. IMO it's always the female who has to put up with more bullshit than the male in an interracial relationship.
Lastly...its funny how online, alot of white males have been hostile to ahni, and disparaging of her and me for being together. I've read about guys saying they will kick some ass if they see a negroid with a caucasoid girl. But I've yet to experience ONE hostile white guy say shit to our face or even confront me about not approving of what he sees. So when I read what the likes of getothracian, elias alucard, and the countless others who private message ahni, pleading her to change her heart's orientation, I feel bad for them because I know they are using ahni and myself as a means to vent alot of frustrations that they can't vent in real life.
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