So a close friend of mine is doing her dissertation on Cultural and Psychological differences of qaxooti youth. Luckly she had already established a remarkable relationship with most of the newly arrived families way before perusing her doctorate when she worked as a case worker for a non-profit organization. She also managed to open an after school program solely for qaxooti girls to get them more comfortable in their community. Anyways waaxan laa yabay is how she figured out that most qaxooti kids are living a double life, and no I don‘t mean double life as in a student by day and a stripper by night… but a double life as in they are torn between two different worlds. They can’t seem to find a balance between dinta, daqanka, and the western world… so they behave insincerely most of the time on both sides! To an average adult these might seem like petty self-esteem issues, but walahi I have seen a few kids break down including my sibling. I think she is tapping into something that is seldom spoken on or shared by ciyaalka. I also think that if people understand this problem, we might have a better understand of our youth, and we can be that much closer to preserving our already diminishing culture!