“yaa tahay?”: exploring the evolutions of a cultural identity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
“Yaa tahay?” is Somali for “Who are you?” Although this is the literal translation, among Somali people this question is widely understood to actually mean “What is your tribe/clan?” For young Somalis of the diaspora, particularly Somali- Canadians, the response to this question of “Who are you?” is simple – “Soomaali [b]aan ahay” (I am Somali). This response is driven by a mutual sense of Somali identity, commonly known as Soomaalinimo, and this affiliation to Soomaalinimo has been revived by young Somalis of the diaspora, including those in Canada. \n \nThrough a series of interviews and participatory workshops, this research seeks to explore the evolution of Soomaalinimo over time. The research explores how a futures approach that is based on principles of dhaqan (culture) and Soomaalinimo could present alternative narratives and futures. Young Somali-Canadians in two cities (Toronto and Edmonton) were given an opportunity to define Soomaalinimo for themselves, re-discover Somalia’s past, and create future scenarios of how the Somali- Canadian identity might evolve in the future for their great-grandchildren. While the focus of this research is specifically on Somali-Canadian futures, this research also presents a new inclusive futures framework that can be generalized to different cultural groups. \n \nThe goal of this research, and resulting framework, is to foster the development of futures that are culturally informed, intersectional, and anticolonial.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".