So East Africa became a continent now?

[menace]

Come here you!




If you come to MN we should double date with your MN concubine and my guy! I will take you to 5 star restaurants.

Can you please use Groupon

 

[angrycat]

I just say somali

 

[Hubble]

I've never claimed East African and as Sgt Benadir correctly stated, we're the sole owners/heirs to the title Horn of African which begins in Djibouti, included Somali region in Ethiopia and ends at Kismaayo.

 

[Kaafiye]

Do people say they're from Asia or do they say they're from East Asia?

Asia could pretty much mean anything. It could easily refer to Yemen or Iran or India or China or Kazakhstan....countries with vastly different people with different cultures, history, and genetics.

Africa is the same way. Just because I share a continent with the Moroccan or the West African or the Bantu doesn't mean I'm similar to him.

 

[Bernie Madoff]

Do people say they're from Asia or do they say they're from East Asia?

Asia could pretty much mean anything. It could easily refer to Yemen or Iran or India or China or Kazakhstan....countries with vastly different people with different cultures, history, and genetics.

Africa is the same way. Just because I share a continent with the Moroccan or the West African or the Bantu doesn't mean I'm similar to him.

Theres somali bantus in our country and speak our language..they're the same as us.

 

[Kaafiye]

Theres somali bantus in our country and speak our language..they're the same as us.

We have Arabs who live in Somalia too, primarily in Benadir and they've lived there for generations, does that mean we're the same as them?

Stop the bullshit warya.

 

[Kaafiye]

If someone were to ask me what I am, how can you expect me to say "African" despite the fact that Africa is a vast continent with vastly different peoples and cultures?

Does an Indian refer to himself as "Asian".

Does an Iranian or Kazakh person refer to themselves as Asian?

So why the hell does Africa have this double standard? Why does everyone assume that just because you're from Africa, you must all look the same and be of the same race?

 

[Bernie Madoff]

We have Arabs who live in Somalia too, primarily in Benadir and they've lived there for generations, does that mean we're the same as them?

Stop the bullshit warya.

 

[Hubble]

We have Arabs who live in Somalia too, primarily in Benadir and they've lived there for generations, does that mean we're the same as them?

Stop the bullshit warya.

Either the name of the country changes or or attitude towards who is Somali changes. I learned my lesson when a Baraawe Somali spoke like he was from Jigjiga and didn't look foreign to me. Some Somalis look Bantu, some Bantu are indistinguishable from ethnically Somali Somalis.

 

[Kaafiye]

I'm gonna explain it to you in simpler terms you low-IQ inbred.

The OP asked why do Somalis refer to themselves as East African. I responded with because "African" is too broad a description to describe yourself with. It would be like saying "I am from Asia" without specifying exactly which part of Asia you originate from. Arabs, Persians, Indians, Central Asians, Chinese, and Indonesians all originate from Asia. So obviously you're supposed to specify the actual region you originate from rather than the continent. Somalis are from Africa but so are the Moroccans. So are the Senegalese. So are the Malawians. All of these different groups are vastly different from one another.

Somalis are Horn Africans and are closely related with Ethiopians and Eritreans. So when someone says "I am from East Africa" or "I am from the Horn of Africa"....you can automatically conclude that we're talking about Somalis/Ethiopians/Eritreans who fall under one umbrella.

I know people refer to Chinese/Koreans/Vietnamese people as "East Asians" because of their similar traits and because they're from the same region. It's common to hear the term "East Asian" but for some reason people get confused when we say "East African"

It's a double standard

 

[paragon]

If someone were to ask me what I am, how can you expect me to say "African" despite the fact that Africa is a vast continent with vastly different peoples and cultures?

Does an Indian refer to himself as "Asian".

Does an Iranian or Kazakh person refer to themselves as Asian?

So why the hell does Africa have this double standard? Why does everyone assume that just because you're from Africa, you must all look the same and be of the same race?

Due to the bantu expansion >3000 yrs ago most of East Africa (Great Lake region and surrounding areas) looks no different from West Africa, Central Africa and South Africa. That's why they think all Africans look alike (Nilotes, Pygmies, Khosian look more distinguishable). People don't care about West-East-South distinctions. Only N. Africa is distinguished from Sub-Saharan Africa, and Horners are considered the exception rather than the rule. Niger-Congo people are mislabeled as the current standard for African since they have spread out and inhabit a wide geographic area ( A huge part of Africa having assimilated many peoples and the Americas). That and when you think African people automatically think of people of West-Central African decent. Horners are rarely even considered.

 

[Kaafiye]

Due to the bantu expansion >3000 yrs ago most of East Africa (Great Lake region and surrounding areas) looks no different from West Africa, Central Africa and South Africa. That's why they think all Africans look alike (Nilotes, Pygmies, Khosian look more distinguishable). People don't care about West-East-South distinctions. Only N. Africa is distinguished from Sub-Saharan Africa, and Horners are considered the exception rather than the rule. Niger-Congo people are mislabeled as the current standard for African since they have spread out and inhabit a wide geographic area ( A huge part of Africa having assimilated many peoples and the Americas). That and when you think African people automatically think of people of West-Central African decent. Horners are rarely even considered.

Exactly

It's a terrible misconception that we need to destroy. Africa is enormously diverse with diverse sets of people. We should celebrate this diversity and recognize the fact that Africans are not alike and that Africa---like Asia---is a vast continent that comprises different racial/ethnic/cultural groups.

These Somali SJW's don't seem to understand this, and they think they're being enlightened by suppressing our differences and falsely claiming that all Africans are alike. They couldn't be further from the truth

 

[Bernie Madoff]

@Kaafiye

We are all one. We all are africans. Be proud of your blackness

 

[paragon]

Exactly

It's a terrible misconception that we need to destroy. Africa is enormously diverse with diverse sets of people. We should celebrate this diversity and recognize the fact that Africans are not alike and that Africa---like Asia---is a vast continent that comprises different racial/ethnic/cultural groups.

These Somali SJW's don't seem to understand this, and they think they're being enlightened by suppressing our differences and falsely claiming that all Africans are alike. They couldn't be further from the truth

These SJWs are a submissive lot. They just want to waste time cheer leading the downtrodden and commiserate over being 'oppressed' minorities. They are do-nothings. I don't see them creating businesses or contributing something of worth to their communities, which aids in social uplift. They just want to be cogs in a machine that have fallen for social engineering by cadaan people with that blackness crap. Little do they realize 'black' which is an euro word is negative, dangerous and associated with death and decay. It's their creation not our own. And rarely are their positive connotations associated with it. Welcoming ethnic differences prevents the extinction of certain groups. The integrationist approach just obscures differences in culture/ethnicity which says be absorbed and indistinguishable from larger groups.

 

[angrycat]

Exactly

It's a terrible misconception that we need to destroy. Africa is enormously diverse with diverse sets of people. We should celebrate this diversity and recognize the fact that Africans are not alike and that Africa---like Asia---is a vast continent that comprises different racial/ethnic/cultural groups.

These Somali SJW's don't seem to understand this, and they think they're being enlightened by suppressing our differences and falsely claiming that all Africans are alike. They couldn't be further from the truth

Sbxnallah so true, europeans and asians get to celebrate their diversity while still maintaining the collective contintental identities, while we have to pretend like there are none or else we are selfhaters and trying to run away from the black race (or it means u look down on other africans )

 

[Kaafiye]

These SJWs are a submissive lot. They just want to waste time cheer leading the downtrodden and commiserate over being 'oppressed' minorities. They are do-nothings. I don't see them creating businesses or contributing something of worth to their communities, which aids in social uplift. They just want to be cogs in a machine that have fallen for social engineering by cadaan people with that blackness crap. Little do they realize 'black' which is an euro word is negative, dangerous and associated with death and decay. It's their creation not our own. And rarely are their positive connotations associated with it. Welcoming ethnic differences prevents the extinction of certain groups. The integrationist approach just obscures differences in culture/ethnicity which says be absorbed and indistinguishable from larger groups.

I couldn't have said it better myself. They don't realize the long-term serious implications of what they're proposing. The SJW's in the United States are a complaining, submissive, effeminate bunch. Just look at @deray on Twitter. He's the Chief SJW of the African-American community in the US, and his tweets and video interviews are reeking of an inferiority complex. I don't see him being proactive or proposing anything concrete to actually uplift the people of his community. And I've seen the same with @PayitForward87, who's a Somali SJW on Twitter, and he's also effeminate, submissive, while his tweets reek of an inferiority complex.

And regarding ethnic differences, these SJW's---in their zest to appear enlightened---want to ignore the fact that Africans as a people have never been united and we've always had our differences. Just look at the Khoisan people of Southern Africa and compare them to the Bantus of Congo, and then compare them to the Cushites of the Horn of Africa. They're entirely different and there's almost no similarity between us. No reasonable scholar or historian could ever get behind the idea that "all Africans are one". It's one thing to propose integration between different groups. It's something completely different to allow a larger, more dominant group to absorb you. We Somalis are only a few million. We are the most langaab people of Africa and there's not that many of us in existence. To dismiss the idea that we're in danger of being absorbed by our larger neighbors is to kiss the existence of the Somali ethnic group goodbye.

 

[Kaafiye]

Sbxnallah so true, europeans and asians get to celebrate their diversity while still maintaining the collective contintental identities, while we have to pretend like there are none or else we are selfhaters and trying to run away from the black race (or it means u look down on other africans )

I never understood that part.

So because I'm asserting my own identity and my differences, that means I look down on others? It's the most idiotic logic I've ever heard, yet I hear Somalis constantly make that argument. I've always argued against the idea that Somalis are "mixed with Arab" and I'm against the entire idea of Somalis being included amongst the Arab community or included in the Arab League. But if I say the same thing about Bantus and argue against the idea that we Somalis are remotely related to Bantus, that means I'm somehow looking down on them? What's with the double standards?

I don't want Somalis to be absorbed by the Arabs (who are 350 million people and control more than 20 countries) or the Bantus (who number more than 400 million people and control 25 countries). Somalis only number a few million and we possess TWO countries (Somalia and Djibouti). Both are enormously dominant and both groups control vast tracts of territory. We need to fight against our possible extinction.

 

[paragon]

I couldn't have said it better myself. They don't realize the long-term serious implications of what they're proposing. The SJW's in the United States are a complaining, submissive, effeminate bunch. Just look at @deray on Twitter. He's the Chief SJW of the African-American community in the US, and his tweets and video interviews are reeking of an inferiority complex. I don't see him being proactive or proposing anything concrete to actually uplift the people of his community. And I've seen the same with @PayitForward87, who's a Somali SJW on Twitter, and he's also effeminate, submissive, while his tweets reek of an inferiority complex.

And regarding ethnic differences, these SJW's---in their zest to appear enlightened---want to ignore the fact that Africans as a people have never been united and we've always had our differences. Just look at the Khoisan people of Southern Africa and compare them to the Bantus of Congo, and then compare them to the Cushites of the Horn of Africa. They're entirely different and there's almost no similarity between us. No reasonable scholar or historian could ever get behind the idea that "all Africans are one". It's one thing to propose integration between different groups. It's something completely different to allow a larger, more dominant group to absorb you. We Somalis are only a few million. We are the most langaab people of Africa and there's not that many of us in existence. To dismiss the idea that we're in danger of being absorbed by our larger neighbors is to kiss the existence of the Somali ethnic group goodbye.

I couldn't agree more. I find it funny how sethmcfaland et al. are disliking comments w/o so much as making a rebuttal.

Somalis are few in number compared to other African groups (fact) and their large but uninhabited landmass looks attractive to outsiders (non-Horners). Just because we experienced a long-standing civil war does not mean we deserve to be extinct or have our land usurped by others.

 

[angrycat]

@Kaafiye, the double standard you mentioned lies in the fact that sjw want to imitate black history in america so bad, they've taken arabs as the surrogate white community so they see them as the oppressors so it's therefore ok to distance yourself from the oppressors lmao

 

[Kaafiye]

I couldn't agree more. I find it funny how sethmcfaland et al. are disliking comments w/o so much as making a rebuttal.

Somalis are few in number compared to other African groups (fact) and their large but uninhabited landmass looks attractive to outsiders (non-Horners). Just because we experienced a long-standing civil war does not mean we deserve to be extinct or have our land usurped by others.

This world doesn't work on compassion. This world is a power play. That's what it is.

When you look at the power dynamics between the United States and Russia and China and the EU and Japan and other countries, you'll realize that this world is a power play between powerful groups of people.

If you don't stick up for yourself and your people, you will be taken advantage of and usurped of your god-given rights. That's what these Somali SJW's don't seem to understand.