I'd say we somehow managed to save our culture and language from complete takeover unlike the sudanese. I truly feel bad for the sudanese coz their identities is always in crisis as they're not accepted by arabs. They also yearn to look like arabs and see it as good the closer someone looks closer to the arabs. Honor killing and controlling our woman like animals are somethings we haven't adopted by the arabs among other things. Also with the food, as long as it taste good I could care less whether it was from the italians, brits, jews ethios as long as it taste good. The reason why many arabs believe somalis are arab is becoz they were taught in school that Somalia was an arab country part of the arab league and so are their people.This title is bait @Duchess
Egyptians aren't Arab and neither are most 'Arabs'.
The reason why Arabs see Somalis as Arab is not because we are ethnically Arab but Arab in every other concept.
Our language is 40% Arabic
Our religion is from Saudi Arabia
Our food is from Southern Arabia
Our women in Somalia go out in Arab clothing
We are part of the Arab union
Nearly everyone in Somalia can read and write Arabic without trouble
We are in the Arab sphere of influence: Middle East, North Africa and the Red Sea
Our culture has been succumbing to Arab culture for years
Somalis have no-one to blame but themselves when Arabs call us Arab. We have done nothing to safeguard our culture, language, cusine etc.
Eritrea is now Arabized (Christians there even speak Arabic), North Africa is now Arabized, Ethiopia is succumbing, Djibouti has also and Somalia is next. All this SJW 'Make the Horn Cushtic Again' is too late.
Our parents biggest sin was destroying our culture and now its too late to do anything about it.