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Am somali and am muslim and u pissed me off so go jump off a clif

This is why i really dont like black people. So annoying wallahi.

Go Jump off a cliff

Get lost monkey boy

Who are all these people am being mistaken for.

The Bantu are exslaves and are not indegenous to Somalia.

whateve u say

get lost

I got a bf. And am not into non Somalis.

Your an anoying little monkey.

Go jump off a bridge

Arab is a culture not an ethnicity.


I never called myself anything other than Somali.


Go Jump off a bridge

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.



Respectfully submitted,

Luul

Somalis are brown or light brown majority of times. Indians are also dark it proves nothing. Our language is afro asiatic like arabic which tells you we originally came from middle east.


Stop take away my culture and ethnicity by labeling me a color i am not. What ever you label yourself is non of my buisness and vice versa


We are closer to yemen than kenya because all of north kenya is somali inhabited. middle east is only 20 miles from our shores.

Also alot of arabs lived and still in somalia.


Its somali not somalian. secondly we dont have same features or hair as you guys. So Hop off.

Glad to know you identify yourself according what 5 percent of the world things.

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.



Respectfully submitted,

Luul

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.



Respectfully submitted,

Luul

^ I never understood the idea of labeling yourself a color yournot.

I look brown not black dear. So dont take it personal when people identify themselves with their ethnicity and not a color they are "technically" not.

Dont take it personal. Keep moving.

^ omg.


Why do people here care so much how a people identify themslevs. If someone chooses to identify themseles by skin color or ethnicity doesnt matter.

I personally always refered to those africans who look black as black. I know in the Horn we refer to ourselves by ethnicity even though we all look the same. So dont get offensed when we dont get offended.

the person who created thread obviously knew he/she would upset you guys.
You shouldnt care how people identify themselves.

I pick Human race. Somali ethnicity.

Why do you care what we call ourselves? Am from Somalia, speak Somali and am ethnically Somali.


If you have a problem with that than go talk and convince all the Somalis in the world their black.


Dont reply to me anymore, keep moving.

You have issues thats all am gonna say.


Anyway thanks for those who welcomed me here. Like I said I am a long time Somalinet user and wanted to visit this forum out of curiosity.


I hope to have fun here.

Well the be happy we dont call ourselves black.

Why do you care what we call ourselves?