I agree with almost everything you said. I just think you overestimate their "willingness to endure suffering". I live in a third world country, and I can tell you that what you call suffering is actually a very comfortable existence to poor people down here. I don't know about Somalians specifically, but I bet that they are not stoic driven people. It's just that sharing a small house with 8 of their countrymen in some shitty town in Minnesota is better than the hovel they lived in back home. And the 8 bucks an hour enable them to actually provide for their families in a way they were never able to. Not to mention that they can afford consumer goods like cars and iPhones which are probably something only rich people have access to in many countries.
I agree with almost everything you said. I just think you overestimate their "willingness to endure suffering". I live in a third world country, and I can tell you that what you call suffering is actually a very comfortable existence to poor people down here. I don't know about Somalians specifically, but I bet that they are not stoic driven people. It's just that sharing a small house with 8 of their countrymen in some shitty town in Minnesota is better than the hovel they lived in back home. And the 8 bucks an hour enable them to actually provide for their families in a way they were never able to. Not to mention that they can afford consumer goods like cars and iPhones which are probably something only rich people have access to in many countries.