National emblem of Somaliland

[Som]

No offense to Somalilanders, I'm being serious.
Your coat of arms is really cool, beautiful arabic script, cool eagle, olive branches and the scale representing justice is a great symbol but why on earth are there to white / light skinned hands?
The skin tone is not representative of the general skin tone of somalis which is way darker than that.

Some versions have white cadaan hands wtf. The hands are pinkish. No somali has that skin tone

This is an average crowd in Somaliland
Not a single guy in the picture has the same skin tone of the hands in the Somaliland emblem

My Somalilander friends, you need to change the hands to dark brown to match the skin color of most somalis

 

[Dima&Damo]

 

[Siddhartha]

Good question

 

[celidheere]

those hands look like mine

 

[Magan95]

Somaliland definitely has identity issues. With including Arabic in their coat of arms and flag instead of Somali, and using pale hands instead of a general chocolate hand color.

It's mad embarrassing.

 

[Ozworld]

thats the Duriyada colour

 

[Magan95]

Compare it to the Somalia coat of arms which takes from Authentic Somali culture and fauna.

 

[Apollo]

They aren't white. This is a high quality version of it:

 

[Magan95]

They aren't white. This is a high quality version of it:

That's still way too light. they need to make it darker.

 

[Ozworld]

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Compare it to the Somalia coat of arms which takes from Authentic Somali culture and fauna.

thats an italian design somalis just rearranged it. It was designed by a white man

 

[Magan95]

thatsan italian design somalis just rearranged it. It was designed by a white man

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Regardless, they have the Leopard which is native to Somalia, they have the somali spear.
At least they tried to individualize it compared to Somalilands.

 

[Dima&Damo]

thats an italian design somalis just rearranged it. It was designed by a white man

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Yours Look Like The C Version Of Iran/Saudi

 

[Based]

That's still way too light. they need to make it darker.

Does it bother you that much? Let them dream about their Arab origins

 

[Ozworld]

Regardless, they have the Leopard which is native to Somalia, they have the somali spear.
At least they tried to individualize it compared to Somalilands.

Im saying somalia never designed its flag or coat of arms, they just took the colonial one and rearranged. They should be more creative and make something of their own instead of using a white mans design

 

[Magan95]

Does it bother you that much? Let them dream about their Arab origins

It's embarrassing. If Somaliland is forcibly representing my people, the least they could do is not embarrass us and choose a coat of arms and flag that is authentic Somali. Not this Arabic script filled pale hands atrocity.

 

[Magan95]

Im saying somalia never designed its flag or coat of arms, they just took the colonial one and rearranged. They should be more creative and make something of their own instead of using a white mans design

There could be improvement on the Somalia coat of arms as well.

 

[Kant123]

Those are Diana hands, everyone has it these days

 

[Yukon_Niner]

I find the Arabic more offensive

Reminds me of when I went there and saw ashy cad ad skin with thick mosaic eyebrows. You'd look up at a billboard and see a dhegcas woman and realise that's what they're all trying to imitate

 

[repo]

thats an italian design somalis just rearranged it. It was designed by a white man

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If it was rearranged then it isn't the same flag, genius. There's a difference between drawing inspiration and copying.

 

[J-Rasta]

Just leave them , they are a prosperous society , I don't care about the bickering of others , leave them to do whatever , leave them.