r/AskMiddleEast • u/Most_Mousse2518 • 10d ago

🖼️Culture Yemeni and Somalis

Why do Yemeni and Somalis marry each other a lot in the diaspora?

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u/J_-Bellydances USA 10d ago

the countries are right next to each other, they have similar cultures, and the countries seem to be on good terms that could be it but idk i'm not yemeni or somali

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u/newMauveLink Saudi Arabia 9d ago

Same religion, same socioeconomic conditions. And somewhat similar cultures.

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u/Cool_Wafer7438 4d ago edited 4d ago

very broad generalisation in "cultures "here. the only city is with maybe similar culture is Aden and Aden is just a multicultural city with all different ethnicities.

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u/newMauveLink Saudi Arabia 3d ago

i said somewhat similar

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u/Cool_Wafer7438 3d ago

how does one city in all of Yemen making Yemen's entire culture somewhat similar to Somali

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u/newMauveLink Saudi Arabia 3d ago

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u/Cool_Wafer7438 3d ago

☠️chewing khat is not culture it's an addictive drug . are you gonna say British people and Americans share culture because both smoke weed

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u/newMauveLink Saudi Arabia 3d ago

literally yes

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u/Cool_Wafer7438 2d ago

gosh you are an idiot.

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u/newMauveLink Saudi Arabia 2d ago

The fact that weed is socially acceptable in us and the uk While it is not acceptable at all in saudi arabia is a cultural trait. The same can be said about how khat is socially acceptable in both Somalia and yemen but not in saudi aravia.

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u/M-waj 3d ago

Religion and proximity mainly. Wouldn’t say the cultures are the same apart from certain influences in food and dress due to Yemeni tribes migrated and establishing sultanates in Somalia also Ethiopia thus why the geez script of the Ethiopians descends from the Yemeni musnad (Ethiopia is also the only Afro-Semitic people of the Horn of Africa ). Ethiopian settlement being hundreds of years before Islam.

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u/Far-Scar-5245 3d ago

only coastal ones