How Somali do you look?

[Apollo]

On a scale of 1 to 10.

 

[anonimo]

 

[Tywin Mejerteen]

Ive been told I look like a negroid hispanic
In Somalia they told me I looked Ethiopian
I almost smacked they lady cause she was alay( raxaweyne)

 

[Apollo]

I look so Somali that even Chinese people know that I am Somali.

 

[XoosBoos]

Some bantu looking (she claims to be from xamar) had the audicity to call me non-somali looking. I would say 9/10.

 

[supz]

i look pretty somali.

 

[MadNomad]

I look pretty Somali, minus the skinny-ness. Got more of a medium build naturally.

 

[MARAQ DIGAAG]

10/10, so much so that random Somalis ask me for directions in Somali . I tell them I am Jamaican .

 

[Apollo]

Some Somalis look like Habeshas or Black Americans, sometimes even like South Indians or Nilotes.

 

[Xaagi-Cagmadigtee]

Define Somali. Is it cultural, linguistical, physical trait, geographical or all the above? And who sets up the parameters?

 

[supz]

Some Somalis look like Habeshas or Black Americans, sometimes even like South Indians or Nilotes.

I have been mistaken as sudanese before, but we look pretty similar.

 

[XoosBoos]

Also this FOB called me a xabesh when he looked like a oromo.

 

[Tywin Mejerteen]

I’ve realized if a Somali guy gets mistaken for habesha he gets upset but xalimos get gassed.
I wish my somali sisters weren’t so self hating

 

[Timo jileec]

i get accused of having south-east Asian ancestry.

 

[Etacovda S'lived]

I am light skin with thin nose and soft silky hair. To make matters worse, my white stepmother used to gel my hair when I was a kid. People were convinced I was mixed race. Today at the age of 44, I try to undue her whitewashing of me.

 

[Zumar]

When i used to straight my hair or sometimes when i have my hair without bun and curled up, people never think i am somali, even somalis

But when i just have my hair in a bun ppl see i am somali lol

 

[DuctTape]

I look pretty Somali, although I've been mistaken for Sudanese (North not South ) a few times.
I don't think that counts though, since there's a lot of overlap in terms of looks between the two groups anyways.
It's like a Pakistani saying they're mistaken for Bengali a few times, it's plausible.

 

[Haggiss]

Pure geeljire. Never been mistaken for anything else.

 

[bluebird]

People just ask me "are you from hargeisa or mogdisho?" so I assume very

 

[Kingjames]