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I don't agree with the blanket accusation.. Yes, there's truth to what he's saying. However, I, like millions of other Somalis, never called anyone adon/jarer or belittled any other human being.

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He has many a good point. I'm really taken aback when skilled people are looked down upon. Somalis have good customs but a horrible culture.

Pan Africanist and madownimo is the politics of the oppressed(African Americans,South Africa under apartheid ,Mali Bantus,and generally blacks in the west).in 2016 ,most people in Africa define themselves according their nation,tribe or clan. We Somalis primarily define ourselves as a Somali person from tribe/clan a.somalis do have an identity.you can't just force this madownimo malarkey on us.yes,we are blacks,but we do not go around defining ourselves by the colour of our skin because of an Arab or white man.fock the eno brothers.

This should be a knowledged man , and he says the arab calls you a abid . It is not only false , but were it not for the war in Somalia , i would have never met a guy with his features speaking somali , let's be honest . I've never had a dilemna about my identity , never . I have seen and interacted with arabs from yemen , algeria , morrocco , Tunisia , and later Saudi Arabia and Oman , they were all drawn to me , in a sense of brotherhood . Walaahi Bilaahi Talaahi , I swear .
Somalis deny their africanity , aqli cabiid ba lagu yidha af somaliga waxaasi , as if africanity was only his face.
Every somali knows what a somali is . The problem is that each somali wants to speak for all somalis , that's the problem !
It is their backwardness that pulls them one way or the other when in fact they can have and be comfortable in both , AFRO-ASIASTIC.

GG, the guy is hilarious he took a divisive approach and his speech looks as if directed @ non-somalis.

BU/Sahan, yes, Somalis identify themselves as Somalis. I wonder where this Arab thing came from, Somalis are very proud ppl and I've never seen anyone bty-clubbing for Arabs or any other ethnic group as this professor puts it.

There's an old Somali song on youtube that translates to "I am Somali and I don't allow anyone to be superior to me".

30 sec in the vid when he started saying the arabs call you abid , is when I stopped watching . Some professor

This man has an agenda, and those fools are all eating it up. Too bad I couldn't care enough about ethnic Somalis to get worked up over this. Somalia (that includes Somaliland) will be the next bantustan in 100 years.

Waryaa, that's very true. Wuu istustus miiranyahey, there might be something more to it. Jareerweyne are not called addoon in Somalia, that is a fallacy.

Horta soomalidan carabta claimgareysa ee hadh iyo habeen la hadalhayo, halkey joogaan?

ninkan platform uu ku ciilbaxo ayu heley...YOU DO NOT HAVE AN IDENTITY kulaha....the way he said it told its own story.
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Horta soomalidan carabta claimgareysa ee hadh iyo habeen la hadalhayo, halkey joogaan?

ninkan platform uu ku ciilbaxo ayu heley...YOU DO NOT HAVE AN IDENTITY kulaha....the way he said it told its own story.
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The Professor is full of crap. If it comes to lineage, if you ain't Samaale or Oromo, you are not a descendant of the native people of the Horn. This professor's people arrived centuries after the first Oromo/Samaale descended down from the Ethiopian highlands.

He expressed his opinion, i don't see anything wrong with that.

I might not agree with him, but he has every right to express his opinion.

Good for him.

No doubt that much of the rest of the world now see somalis more as arabs than as africans. I see it as a win/win for both sides.

No doubt that much of the rest of the world now see somalis more as arabs than as africans. I see it as a win/win for both sides.

Somalia are from the Horn of Africa. Being Arab (no matter how stupid it is to claim an identity which isn't yours) shouldn't change that fact. Many North Africans are Berbers but have been claiming Arab for centuries. Ethiopian aristocracy claimed to be Caucasian and this didn't change the fact that they were Africans. Africa is a geographical location and not a race.

No doubt that much of the rest of the world now see somalis more as arabs than as africans. I see it as a win/win for both sides.

Somalia are from the Horn of Africa. Being Arab (no matter how stupid it is to claim an identity which isn't yours) shouldn't change that fact. Many North Africans are Berbers but have been claiming Arab for centuries. Ethiopian aristocracy claimed to be Caucasian and this didn't change the fact that they were Africans. Africa is a geographical location and not a race.

Right! I think when one speaks of "regarding themselves as africans", i think thatreference has more to do with having some sort of empathy with other africans. Most somalis empathize with arabs....feel more of a connection with arabs more than with any other groups. again its a win/win situation for somalis as well as other people from the continent for this professor to make this known. Somalis themselves want this known. I think it is ok for somalis to feel that way and i think its ok for the professor to state that without passing judgement. It is good for everyone to be aware of the feelings of others. That's why forums like these are so valuable.

No doubt that much of the rest of the world now see somalis more as arabs than as africans. I see it as a win/win for both sides.

Somalia are from the Horn of Africa. Being Arab (no matter how stupid it is to claim an identity which isn't yours) shouldn't change that fact. Many North Africans are Berbers but have been claiming Arab for centuries. Ethiopian aristocracy claimed to be Caucasian and this didn't change the fact that they were Africans. Africa is a geographical location and not a race.

Right! I think when one speaks of "regarding themselves as africans", i think thatreference has more to do with having some sort of empathy with other africans. Most somalis empathize with arabs....feel more of a connection with arabs more than with any other groups. again its a win/win situation for somalis as well as other people from the continent for this professor to make this known. Somalis themselves want this known. I think it is ok for somalis to feel that way and i think its ok for the professor to state that without passing judgement. It is good for everyone to be aware of the feelings of others. That's why forums like these are so valuable.

That's not strictly true either. We have some negative opinions regarding Arab culture and even a racist term to describe them so we're not that hurt if they call us names too. We're a distinct ethnic group. This doesn't blind us however from the horrible things happening in the Middle East. We're Muslim and we feel for other Muslims. Trust me very few Somalis care about Arab Jews, Christians and Atheists. We don't feel an affinity with North Africans either even though they're Muslim, Arab and African simply because they have their shit together and don't need our prayers. If they got invaded, we'd care because it could have been us. America has done a good job demonising Islam through its Middle Eastern foreign policy. It's OK to feel empathy with Muslims in the Middle East without being a coconut or worse.