[quote="Shirib"][quote="Voltage"][quote="Shirib"]I thought Darood & Isaaq were Arab which would make them Semetic not Cushitic.
Anyways I think jareer are as Somali as any of us. They now are Muslim, speak Somali, and pretty much share our same culture. Where they came from hundreds of years ago is a different Somali.[/quote]
How come the descendants of Dutch immigrants in South Africa who speak Zulu and have South African culture are not part of the Zulu ethnic group but still have the distinction of their own ancestry?[/quote]
Dutch don't really speak Zulu, they still speak there real language. They came to colonize and stuff like that. Jareer were brought as slaves, there culture and language was stripped of them by Somali's. Do you not see the difference?[/quote]
Sxb no one stripped them of their heritage, they even know what villages their tribesmen live in Mozambique
---"Many Bantu refugees can trace their origins back to ancestors in southeast African tribes who were enslaved in the 18th century by agents of the Sultanate of Zanzibar. These ancestral tribes include, among others, the Makua and Yao of southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique; the Ngindo of southern Tanzania; the Nyasa of southern Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and northern Malawi; and the Zaramo and Zigua of northeast Tanzania. Other southeast African tribes represented among the Bantu refugees include the Digo, Makale, Manyawa, Nyamwezi, and Nyika."---
http://www.cal.org/co/bantu/sbpeop.html
