Somali culture is driven by tribalism and coalitional psychology, not by loyalty to the United States as most people in the West believe. This is why most Somalis don t pledge allegiance to the U.S.
00:00:00.240Hi everybody, this is Scott Saad. It's Saturday evening. I was not planning on doing a clip this late into the night, but the defense of truth shall never rest.
00:00:11.600So some of you have been sharing clips of Somali men either saying or doing all sorts of outrageous things.
00:00:20.760So there's one clip that's going around where a Somali guy is standing on top of the Hollywood Stars passageway and he's standing over the one of Donald Trump and he's literally urinating on it.
00:00:38.960Now you don't see Vietnamese immigrants or Haitian immigrants or Japanese immigrants or Armenian immigrants doing that.
00:00:49.820Why is that? There are endless immigrants that come to the United States and yet they don't seem to engage in these types of behaviors.
00:00:59.880You're now seeing Somali guys saying, you know, we're sorry that Donald Trump won't be alive when we have taken over the United States.
00:01:08.240You don't hear Vietnamese people saying that. You don't hear Armenians saying that. Why is that?
00:01:16.060Cultures have certain internalized codes. I've said this over and over again.
00:01:23.960Somali society is driven by a very strict code of us versus them. You are Somali first.
00:01:30.440That's why a lot of people say, even if they're now in the United States, their first allegiance is to Somalia.
00:01:48.340So I don't pledge allegiance to the United States because my coalitional calculus does not permit me to do that.
00:01:57.660So if you allow hundreds of thousands of people to come into a society that was founded on the principle that, of course, we welcome immigrants,
00:02:08.000but all of your identity markers are superseded by your loyalty to the unifying flag of the United States,
00:02:16.120that is simply not true of most Somalis.
00:02:28.960I first care about Somalia and so on and so forth.
00:02:31.840So let me read you a quote from page 208 of my 2011 book, The Consuming Instinct.
00:02:40.520I truly wish that more people would rediscover this book because it's a book that not only applies evolutionary psychology to understand our consumatory nature,
00:02:51.820but it really demonstrates the power of evolutionary theory in explaining all sorts of important human phenomena.
00:03:00.740So on page 208, where I'm talking at that point about tribalism and coalitional psychology,
00:03:08.540I cite a book called The Hajj by Leon Uris.
00:03:16.160And so here I'm going to, this is the quote.
00:03:18.300So before I was nine, I had learned the basic canon of Arab life.
00:03:22.880It was me against my brother, me and my brother against our father, my family against my cousins and the clan,
00:03:33.040the clan against the tribe, and the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidel.
00:03:40.960This very powerful quote perfectly and fully captures the psychology of Somali culture.