What do I have to do with a Ugandan or a Burundian or even a Kenyan next door. Your Logic doesn't span out because this "East African" is just based on Fiction.
Almost Everybody knows that Somalis have an Almost Distinct Signature Look that many can Distinguish from Miles away even next groups that are "Skinny, Tall" and "Narrow".
No offence but a Kenyan, Tanzanian, Congolese and a Cameroonian all look the same if they don't speak.
"U say it isn't a practice among reer baadiye but what about everyone else in Somalia ?" Just say you don't know what your talking about and move on. Do you think the Rest of Somalia is like this Hyper-Digitalized Urban place like Xamar?
Nobody is really talking about Hair Straightening and I've personally never heard of a case that covers that. Not to toot my own horn but we have beautiful hair and take pride in it so those cases I haven't heard of, may have to double check on that tho.
I'm not Somali I thought baadiye was a place or klan. If wrong, correct me.
I brought up hair straightening because it's just as detrimental as skin bleaching.
And is arguably the single largest mental holdover from colonialism & slavery - it's relevant.
Y'all don't all have type 2 hair.
I've met plenty of 4's in real life & they were almost exclusively men. So how exactly isn't this an epidemic?
For those who aren't naturally type 2s.
what's their excuse?
I didn't say all East Africans looked alike.
I said y'all share similar phenotypes & body types with other adjacent groups. Even ones well outside of the horn.
I peeped this HEAVY when I toured East Africa for the 1st time.
Nilotes from Uganda & South Sudan are the obvious outliers so why even bring them up.
Tanzanians & Kenyans ON AVERAGE look more like y'all than they'll ever look like us.
Dark skin, bushy eyebrows & a muscular frame is the tell tell west African look for me.
U need bifocals breh
