Postby oldenglish » Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:16 pm
Can't we all agree, Maakhiris are not ethnic Somali. Yes we share the same language, yes we've integrated with the ethnic Somali people. All we share is a language, Islam is universal. I am far more closer to my Ogaslabe kin than a Somali thats a fact. Phenotypically its easy to identify a diasporic Maakhiri with their Somali counterpart. Even the late Eurocentrist Coon noted the polar extremes of the morphological phenotypes of the Maakhiri vs ethnic Somali including other Africans. And so do his contemporaries.
No matter how frustrating reality is, Maakhiris are not ethnic Somali.