Marriages are generally pre-arranged by the parents. Children are a considered the family's greatest asset because they provide the parents with additional laborers and social security. The values of the Omani Arabs in the city are not as strong as the values held by the nomads. The city-dwellers are concerned less with hospitality and more with property, wealth, and education. Most of the Omani wear traditional Arab clothes.
Men wear white robes, turbans, and knives in brightly colored sashes.
The women wear long, black dresses over colorful inner clothes. Some of them also wear black masks to cover their faces. Most of the people living in Djibouti, including the Omani, are Sunni Muslims who practice a moderate form of Islam. These include reciting prayers five times a day while facing Mecca, observing the prescribed fasts, giving alms to the poor, and making at least one pilgrimage to Mecca. The Omani standard is to accept others on their terms.