Waachis
if you watch oromo music video notice the comment section, how many somalis comment positively and at times suprissed how oromo culture is so similiar to somali, compared that with tigray and amhara, even if the habash comment its always in the context of ethiopianism which is synonomies with habasha and the oppression of the "others".
No somali can tell the difference between oromo muslim culture and somali culture.
even our language we borrowed so much from each other that the most educated linguist cant tell which of our two people originated words.
Waachis, I believe we are one nation with different tribes, somalis ire a tribe, so is oromo of and we form a larger nation. what separates us is LAW, xeer somali and oromo law, because surly religion cant separate us nor language, af maay may is almost identically to oromo because it has less arabic word then af maha tiri dialect of the somali language.
Waachis we the Mighty legendary Marehan Sade
are the most secure in our identity, we told the somalis sing marxism, they sang, we said to them be proud of being african in early 70s, they said ok, at late 70s, we told them sing pan arabism, they sang and later we told them marxism is fake
we are capitalist now and guess what they said... ok
Waachis there is more Marehan history around harar and the city of harar then somali republic,
the amxhara had centuries to assimilate the oromo yet the oromo nation is still there that shows you how dominant oromo culture is.
somali have assimilate a lot of oromos and vice versa because culturally they are similar and racially identical.
young somalis are becoming aware of oromos albeit from western racelist point of view, which is not bad but creates america like in-group and out group, thats why the somalis view kenyans and habasha as others and oromos and afar as part of their in-group white race