East African's Features, Amazing

[mudugawi]

People often say what sets Somalis apart is their eyes, we have very striking alert eyes.

[BlackVelvet]

Murax you didn't just count that as a victory now? Come on son

Wallahi when I wrote, waan fahmey, I was thinking something totally different but then I thought BV you've been owning this guy so much lately just let him get away with this one so I did but unfortunately I am not mature enough to stick it through when you act like that. What shall I do now?

Rock and a hard place but it can't be helped.

I'm not denying there are outliers within each race. I mean there might be a Somali here or there that You will not tell right off the bat they are Somali but generally speaking for the most part when it comes to East Africans; I've seen even the most closed, ignorant Americans who are notoriously for generalizing being able to distinguish a Somali from a Ethiopian let alone a Ethiopian and a Somali identifying each other.


Btw like I said before Ethiopian for Me is Tigray/Amharic. Oromos, Afars in Djibouti/Eritrea, Bejas/Nubians in Sudan, etc. will def have populations that really look Somali because we all share the cushitic gene while Tigray/Amharic have semetic origins from Southern Yemen.

Murax, does your whole argument boil down to Cushites don't look like Semites? That's what it sounds like and I am afraid that that has been a known fact for generations and an epiphany on this now is a bit slow sxb.

[Murax]

Murax you didn't just count that as a victory now? Come on son

Wallahi when I wrote, waan fahmey, I was thinking something totally different but then I thought BV you've been owning this guy so much lately just let him get away with this one so I did but unfortunately I am not mature enough to stick it through when you act like that. What shall I do now?

Rock and a hard place but it can't be helped.

I'm not denying there are outliers within each race. I mean there might be a Somali here or there that You will not tell right off the bat they are Somali but generally speaking for the most part when it comes to East Africans; I've seen even the most closed, ignorant Americans who are notoriously for generalizing being able to distinguish a Somali from a Ethiopian let alone a Ethiopian and a Somali identifying each other.


Btw like I said before Ethiopian for Me is Tigray/Amharic. Oromos, Afars in Djibouti/Eritrea, Bejas/Nubians in Sudan, etc. will def have populations that really look Somali because we all share the cushitic gene while Tigray/Amharic have semetic origins from Southern Yemen.

Murax, does your whole argument boil down to Cushites don't look like Semites? That's what it sounds like and I am afraid that that has been a known fact for generations and an epiphany on this now is a bit slow sxb.

Actually as soon as I posted it I was like damn I may have just contradicted Myself. What I meant though is You find a FEW Oromos, Sudanis that look Somalis but they each do carry their own distinct look. Even the Cushites are clearly distinguishable from one another give or take a few cases here or there!

[Mckuus]

Some nomadic Fulanis from the Sahara can sometimes look like Somalis.

[udun]

I must correct you Somalis as I think we need to be inclusive. We have a Somali Bantu who are fellow Somalis and fellow Muslims and we need to be sure that we have other Somalis who may not fit the generally understood depiction of the Somali looks. We are a country of multi-ethnic group and multi languages and we need to face that fact and embrace it:

Ethnicities:
Somali - Cushitic people.
Somali - Bantu
Somali - Bravanese
Somali - Shashi
Somali - Shabeelle
Somali - Gabooye
Somali - Anaas

Languages
Maxaad tiri
Maay
Jiiddu
Dabarre
Garre
Mushungulu
Kiswahili
Af-Tunni (related to the Jiiddu language).

I think it is time we embrace our multi-ethnic and multi languages.

[BlackVelvet]

Actually as soon as I posted it I was like damn I may have just contradicted Myself. What I meant though is You find a FEW Oromos, Sudanis that look Somalis but they each do carry their own distinct look. Even the Cushites are clearly distinguishable from one another give or take a few cases here or there!

Uh huh

[udun]

Some nomadic Fulanis from the Sahara can sometimes look like Somalis.

McKuus,

The President of Chad General Idriss Déby is a fellow Garre. You have huge settelement of Horn of African origin in the west Africa. They still speak the Garre language also.

[Xamud.]

I was arguing with a Ghanian friend of mine a while back, he claimed he could tell the differences between a Ghanian,Nigerian and kenyan, I was like dude I can not for the life me tell the difference, so he pointed out at some random dude, sitting in the library and said "he`s from Zimbabwe" he swore he`d never seen him before, and it turns out the dude was from Zimbabwe but still I can not tell the Africa a part. They all look like each other.

[Mckuus]

The President of Chad General Idriss Déby is a fellow Garre. You have huge settelement of Horn of African origin in the west Africa. They still speak the Garre language also.

These people have no recent East African roots, they are basically West Africans adapted to dry conditions and also have some Berber admixture.

I was arguing with a Ghanian friend of mine a while back, he claimed he could tell the differences between a Ghanian,Nigerian and kenyan, I was like dude I can not for the life me tell the difference, so he pointed out at some random dude, sitting in the library and said "he`s from Zimbabwe" he swore he`d never seen him before, and it turns out the dude was from Zimbabwe but still I can not tell the Africa a part. They all look like each other.

Difference between West Africans and Kenyan (Bantus) is easy most of the time. I would say I can tell them apart 8 out of 10 times.

Also West Africans and South Africans (Bantus) is easy. The latter group has Khoisan admixture and it is noticeable in their features (look at Nelson Mandela).

[IRONm@N]

Do Rwandans have big foreheads or is it just me. So its not just Somalis with the big forehead

Don't you know that Rwandas are Horn Afriks. They are supposedly thought to be the army of Ahmed Gurey who were fighting deep into the Ethiopia near Axum, but after Portugese and Habeshes defeated them and killed Ahmed Gurey, they couldn't come back to Somalia, they fleed to Sudan and than crossed into Rwanda where they settled and since they didn't bring women with them, they intermarried the Bantu tribes.

[barakaboy10]

some African tribes in west Africa, such as Fulani have identical physical structures like the once found in east Africa.

at the end of the day, Somalis want to say that they are not real Africans and that they are not happy to be classified as black Africans like the rest of Africa.

you guys get some real help. Somalis are real negroid Africans with skinny bodies and big foreheads.

[sadeboi]

Dude I don't agree, i can tell the difference between europeans, asian, latinos, and even other africans at times bro.

[samatar133]

I must correct you Somalis as I think we need to be inclusive. We have a Somali Bantu who are fellow Somalis and fellow Muslims and we need to be sure that we have other Somalis who may not fit the generally understood depiction of the Somali looks. We are a country of multi-ethnic group and multi languages and we need to face that fact and embrace it:

Ethnicities:
Somali - Cushitic people.
Somali - Bantu
Somali - Bravanese
Somali - Shashi
Somali - Shabeelle
Somali - Gabooye
Somali - Anaas

Languages
Maxaad tiri
Maay
Jiiddu
Dabarre
Garre
Mushungulu
Kiswahili
Af-Tunni (related to the Jiiddu language).

I think it is time we embrace our multi-ethnic and multi languages.

@ somali gabooye being a diffirent ethnicity.