Making the claim that islam is arab culture is silly. Much of what the prophet brought went against ’arab culture’ (customs and worldview of that time), they literally had to do a 360 to accomodate islam. for example the covering of their bodies (they’d walk around showing their chest and bosom), female infanticide was outlawed etc.Well you already agreed with me.
You told me to not include Islam which literally the biggest influence of spreading Arab culture. Thats like me asking Black Americans how did you become Western but dont include slavery (changing their location) and dont mention religion. Then how the hell else did happen.
Let me list more for you:
Names (traditional Somali names like Samatar etc)
Camel herding (which we know we started)
Hijab, Niqab, Henna etc.
Internet (for everyone)
Jihad (we had the Mad Mullah who was a brutal fighter too fought the British)
Some Arabs might agree with you. Saddam Hussein was a Somaliphile. Many Arabs are since they are starting to hate their own people. I've seen some want to be more African (Ghadafi wanted to leave Arab League since the Gulf sees N.A as inferior too).
The last part isnt true our people are becoming more arabized through islamic education. Tbf we only had a choice between that or non profits teaching westernization which is way too different.
Now the lightskin thing is funny because I had a black guy say white people made the standard of beauty only. I asked him what about fat assess bbl craze and he stfu right after. Miss me with that. Skin lightening is a whole different thing and imo I think it comes from black people. White people see us all as black. Its divide and conquer.