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Are Somalis Black?
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No, Somalis are not "black" for two main reasons:

1) The term "black" is a scientifically invalid label that lumps together disparate human populations solely on the basis of similar skin color. This is problematic because skin color is regulated by one's environment; it is not in and of itself a sign of shared racial ancestry. The Dravidians of South Asia, for example, are darker than many "Black" Africans, yet they do not share any biological affinity with the latter nor are they branded as "black". Dravidians just happen to have also evolved in a hot, equatorial climate, as have Australian Aborigines, another dark-skinned people.

Furthermore, skin color often changes many times over the course of an average person's life. This fact only serves to make skin color an even more useless variable for determining a given person's or population's biological "race".

2) Somalis have biologically, linguistically, and culturally more in common with the peoples of Southwest Asia and North Africa than they do with Black Africans. Since this is demonstrably the case on numerous variables, it makes no sense to group them with Black Africans solely on the basis that they both happen to share a continent. For instance, East Asians and South Asians also share a continent, but that does not prevent South Asians from having genetically more in common with the peoples of Europe than they do with their fellow Asians in the East. The same can be said of Somalis with regard to Black Africans.

Further reading:

http://books.google.ca/books?id=HUBe0wj ... is&f=false

http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v13/ ... troduction

I agree, Somalis are WHITE...just look at their blond hair and pale skin.

i know some purple

Voltage spoke too soon, the identity crisis is not over

the most nigger topic award of the year goes to this retarded ass thread

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I think they are yellow. I could be wrong though.

Advo wrote:I agree, Somalis are WHITE...just look at their blond hair and pale skin.

i wonder if somalis where white , Dunida ba wey adoonsan lahayen till today

Advo wrote:I agree, Somalis are WHITE...just look at their blond hair and pale skin.

ARE U SERIOUS... DUDE U WISH U WERE WHITE

**PALE?? I THINK THATS JUST ASHY SKIN

yes somalis are white look how white are this soomaali men


dam white somalis


and white somalis in somaliland


sawiradan ayaa cadeeynaya soomaalis aint black,

now there,u have your evidence that somalis are whiter than white america.

TATI wrote:

Advo wrote:I agree, Somalis are WHITE...just look at their blond hair and pale skin.

ARE U SERIOUS... DUDE U WISH U WERE WHITE

**PALE?? I THINK THATS JUST ASHY SKIN

he was being sarcastic......

A form of humor that is marked by mocking with irony, sometimes conveyed in speech with vocal over-emphasis. Saying something that is opposite of what is intended to be meant; An act of sarcasm

stay in school

somalis are arabs

i don't know about you guys but i'm always identified as muslim - i think its cus i'm blessed to have the muslim look

somalida wa foolxum

plain and simple

farahs are skinny
xalimos wa buranyahay

Are Somalis Black kulaha
Come on somalis are black becasue the majority of somalis 80%, color range from chocolate color to coal/pitch black.

I have seen some somalis that are so dark that even senegaleese would look whiter.