Culture
Somalia's culture is rich with Muslim, Ethiopia, and Arabic heritage. They follow an Andocentric lifestyle in which the male is the head of the family and the women help with laboring in economic roles and taking care of the family.In Somalia Sociolism let women gain more in society and had access to education, work, and travel. Somalia women get more than most other Muslim country women.
The food in Somalia is a mixture of traditional meals. For breakfast they have tea and pancake bread with goat meat. For lunch they have for lunch they have pasta or rice with spices, herbs, meat, and sauce and for their drink they have a variety of different fruit juices examples life apple, grapefruit, mango, and orange. For dinner they have beans with sugar and milk. They have a mixture of different snacks and sweets that are made with coconut, maize, or other kinds of flours and sugars.
The Somalian people use a Arabic form of language which is used in the north and south part of Somalia. They used to speak Afar and Saho languages that they used to speak before the Arabic introduced their language and it was pretty much similar.
Clothing in Somalia is a mix match of different clothing; some males will wear jeans and t-shirts, while others may wear macawis which are made in sarong-like garment worn around the waist. They also may wear a turban or colorful wrap around their head. Females may wear traditional guntiinos and jilbab's on unmarried women. While walking around Somalia one may see many males carrying automatic rifles and light-machine guns with large bullet chains and extra clips strapped to their sides. For shoes male and female alike is sandals that are usual footwear.
The main religion in Somalia is for the Sunni Muslims sufispani before it was converted into Islam in the 11th and 12th centuries. Some follow the religious order of tariqa.
Somalian people express art through pottery and painting events and natural landscape. Some have painted pictures of historic events that proceeded in Somalia.