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Somalis themselves do not have a uniform look, there are subtle regional differences. Somalis in Gabiley, Jijiga, Awbarre do not look that different from their Oromo neighbours. They predominately have a short stature and coarse hair.

The Degoodi, Garre and even some South Ethiopian OG can be mistaken for Borans.

If one was to travel the length and breadth of Somali inhabited areas in the Horn, differences are easily observed.

AbdiJohnson wrote:You are right.

The Saho people have a clan called Musa Aria. This sounds very similar to Musa Caareh, a Somali subclan

I am,

Abdi "They look very Somali" Johnson

they are definitely isaaq we lost many arre clans.

LiquidHYDROGEN wrote:The only "ethiopians" that look like Somalis are the ones in Somali Galbeed.

zumaale wrote:Somalis themselves do not have a uniform look, there are subtle regional differences. Somalis in Gabiley, Jijiga, Awbarre do not look that different from their Oromo neighbours. They predominately have a short stature and coarse hair.

The Degoodi, Garre and even some South Ethiopian OG can be mistaken for Borans.

If one was to travel the length and breadth of Somali inhabited areas in the Horn, differences are easily observed.

This dude talks so much shit..

So Cabdillahi Suldaan Timacadde, Mo Farah and professor Abdi Ismail Samatar from Gabiley look like Oromo? The people in Gabiley who look like Oromo are the minority Jaarso and Akisho (your people) and they are Somalized Oromos.

TheMailMan wrote:Many Beja people, as well as Afar people, look almost indistinguishable from Somalis. They are our cousins



We Somalis fall under the Green circle, under the "Cushitic" category along with Afars and Oromos

its pretty sad that you have this image saved up.

Xildiiid wrote:

zumaale wrote:Somalis themselves do not have a uniform look, there are subtle regional differences. Somalis in Gabiley, Jijiga, Awbarre do not look that different from their Oromo neighbours. They predominately have a short stature and coarse hair.

The Degoodi, Garre and even some South Ethiopian OG can be mistaken for Borans.

If one was to travel the length and breadth of Somali inhabited areas in the Horn, differences are easily observed.

This dude talks so much shit..

So Cabdillahi Suldaan Timacadde, Mo Farah and professor Abdi Ismail Samatar from Gabiley look like Oromo? The people in Gabiley who look like Oromo are the minority Jaarso and Akisho (your people) and they are Somalized Oromos.

Forgot your Meds! This is a forum, your views are not the Quran. Agree to disagree but don't come to me with your self righteous bullshit.

Don't talk about clans you don't know shit about. Jaarso are a confederation of clans, Oromo, Dir and Darood.

Akisho in Gabiley are a few families and they have been intermarrying with JA and Samaroon for decades, they do not look any different than them. The Oromos in Haraghe zone all the way to Jijiga are not that different than the Somalis they neighbour. You pick a few individuals and insist on making a comparison. Nigga please.

TheMailMan wrote:
There's nothing "racist" about these distinctions at all. In your simplistic view of the world, everything is "racist" until proven otherwise. I can show similar graphs outlining the vast differences that exist in Asia, from the Han Chinese to the Japanese to the Punjabi Indians to the Indonesians.

Huge differences exist between Asians. Huge differences also exist amongst Africans.

P.S. I don't know enough about the Tutsis of Rwanda since I haven't read much about them, but I've heard that they have ancestry that links back to South Sudan, Uganda, and Chad.

the image you posted was obviously made by a racist and was used to advance RACIST views. the words "TRUE NEGROID" are the red flag.

there is no such thing as true negroid or caucasoid or mongloid. those were terms created during the 1800s when eugenics and the idea that one race was superior to another dominated anthropology and biology. the fact you don't have a problem rejurgitating those antiquated views means you either endorse them or you are too stupid to know about them.

Xildiiid wrote:

zumaale wrote:Somalis themselves do not have a uniform look, there are subtle regional differences. Somalis in Gabiley, Jijiga, Awbarre do not look that different from their Oromo neighbours. They predominately have a short stature and coarse hair.

The Degoodi, Garre and even some South Ethiopian OG can be mistaken for Borans.

If one was to travel the length and breadth of Somali inhabited areas in the Horn, differences are easily observed.

This dude talks so much shit..

So Cabdillahi Suldaan Timacadde, Mo Farah and professor Abdi Ismail Samatar from Gabiley look like Oromo? The people in Gabiley who look like Oromo are the minority Jaarso and Akisho (your people) and they are Somalized Oromos.

i really hope that your a non somali troll....you disgusting piece of elephant dung....may you and your ignorance burn......

Your people? are they not somali? you niggas all look EXACTLY the same....dont act up....your foreheads match...


i will never understand how somalilanders call themselves somali, but then try and differentiate themselves from other somalis...talking bout how somalis in a certain part look less somali....i personally think oromos look the most somali....and that includes your dumbass.

Platinum

Don't mind him, the kid is sick in the head and heart. Tries to take a cheap shot and then come a fortnight he is gonna be all apologetic.

Other than certain Eritrean muslim groups i have not managed to see any strong similarity with any other people, the oromos who dont show high SSA features tend to look alot like the amhara, even the borana from Kenya look more Amhara than Somali surprisingly.

Xildiid,Righteous and Mr prestige waa dad xanuunsan and need all the help they can get from friends,family members,snetters

TheMailMan wrote:
It isn't supposed to be based on linguistics or oral history. Language families and historical narratives do. Stop confusing concepts that have nothing to do with each other. Why even bring that up unless you're deliberately trying to confuse people?

And anyone who has met, or interacted with, Tuareg people of Niger and Mali would concede the fact that they're similar to Horn Africans in many ways. In fact, their genetic phenotype is very similar to ours, as well as the Amhara, the Oromos, the Tigrays, the Beja, and the Afars. They are related to Somalis and are some of our closest genetic relatives. It is a fact that Horn Africans differ from Southern Africans as well as West Africans in many ways, and your deliberate misinformation won't be able to change this.

These identities existed long before a single European ever set foot in Africa, you deliberately try to make it seem as if these distinctions only existed with the onset of Europeans.

I suggest you listen to some of the old Somali poems and stories, where our Somali ancestors extolled the virtues of being a Somali, and they repeatedly emphasized that our Somali people are nothing like the Arabs or the Bantus/West-Africans/Southern-Africans. Only in the 21st century do we see Somalis with an identity-crisis trying to unite us with people we were never united with. If you want to put Somalis under the same umbrella as the Ethiopians and Eritreans and the Beja/Tuareg people, then that's fine....because that would be accurate.

But anything more than that is pushing it

FALSE. the idea of a "true negro" originates from the "hamitic hypothesis". I'll give you a short history lesson since its obvious you are not knowledgable on this subject. In mid-1800s, white europeans were confronted with a conondrum. europe at that time was in the midst of the eugenics movement and colonialism of africa was just beginning. the europeans believed in racial superiority with white people on top and black people on the bottom. however, when they read the writings of the ancient greeks and romans, they were continually met with their white ancestors giving ANCIENT EGYPT credit for the origin of western civilization. in addition, the Greeks and Romans described the Ancient Egyptians as "black skin and wooly haired."

on the one hand, blacks are inferior to whites. on the other hand, a black civilization in Egypt helped create Greece and Rome. so how could the racist european mind of the 1800s rationalize this? meet Charles Seligman. the man with the answer. he created what is today known as the "hamitic hypothesis." He theorized that the "black skin/wooly haired" Ancient Egpytians that the Greeks and Romans described were not "true negroes" but rather they were hamites. And who are these hamites you might ask? Well according to Seligman, the hamites (inspired by the biblical story of Ham) were a dark skin race of European men (emphasis on males) that came down from Europe into Africa, interbreed with some of the local "negro" women and created all civilizations that ever existed in Africa. According to Seligman, Somalis, Ethiopians, Tutsis, and even the Maasai are descendants of these ancient hamites.

now obviously, there is no evidence of a migration of hamites into africa, interbreeding with "negro" women and creating all the civilizations in Africa. this was a racist theory, created by a racist, to justify his racist outlook on the world. I'm dissapointed that you seem to have no problem regurjatating this racist propaganda on this website.

zumaale wrote:Platinum

Don't mind him, the kid is sick in the head and heart. Tries to take a cheap shot and then come a fortnight he is gonna be all apologetic.

ugh people like him piss me off so much..they are so corrupted an ignorant. he obviously needs to get out more.

zumaale wrote:

Xildiiid wrote:

zumaale wrote:Somalis themselves do not have a uniform look, there are subtle regional differences. Somalis in Gabiley, Jijiga, Awbarre do not look that different from their Oromo neighbours. They predominately have a short stature and coarse hair.

The Degoodi, Garre and even some South Ethiopian OG can be mistaken for Borans.

If one was to travel the length and breadth of Somali inhabited areas in the Horn, differences are easily observed.

This dude talks so much shit..

So Cabdillahi Suldaan Timacadde, Mo Farah and professor Abdi Ismail Samatar from Gabiley look like Oromo? The people in Gabiley who look like Oromo are the minority Jaarso and Akisho (your people) and they are Somalized Oromos.

Forgot your Meds! This is a forum, your views are not the Quran. Agree to disagree but don't come to me with your self righteous bullshit.

Don't talk about clans you don't know shit about. Jaarso are a confederation of clans, Oromo, Dir and Darood.

Akisho in Gabiley are a few families and they have been intermarrying with JA and Samaroon for decades, they do not look any different than them. The Oromos in Haraghe zone all the way to Jijiga are not that different than the Somalis they neighbour. You pick a few individuals and insist on making a comparison. Nigga please.

Don't project your miserable reality onto me.

You're spreading lies and I can't stand lies.

Jibriil Abokor marry from within the clan and when they don't they usually intermarry with neighboring Samaroon subclans. They don't marry Akisho, so no Akisho (Oromo) do not look like the Somalis in Gabiley.

If you want more examples just say it. I'll disprove your nonsense.

anzeloti wrote:Xildiid,Righteous and Mr prestige waa dad xanuunsan and need all the help they can get from friends,family members,snetters

Is this your way of trying to dismiss my statements by writing that I'm sick? Lol.