What does being Somali mean to you

[MarehanBanker]

1. Is it the ethnicity, language and culture or being from the lands in the horn?

2. Are bantus and cad cads a part of the Somali nation

3. Can someone become "Somali"

4. Do you believe a national somali identity exists?

This post was inspired by a now deleted thread about somali vs somalian

 

[Samira]

It means having the pretense of illusory wealth, power, status and appearance stripped away so that you may gaze upon this world naked and see it for what it is; an empty space of no worth.

 

[Apollo]

It's a sub-race within the species of Homo Sapiens.

 

[Steamdevolopment]

1. Is it the ethnicity, language and culture or being from the lands in the horn?

2. Are bantus and cad cads a part of the Somali nation

3. Can someone become "Somali"

4. Do you believe a national somali identity exists?

This post was inspired by a now deleted thread about somali vs somalian

As an ethnicity Somali is a person born by parents with Somali heritage.

However as a Somali citizen is anyone who carry Somali citizenship and/or subscribe and conforms to Somali ways.

 

[Basra]

What does being Somali mean to you

 

[Steamdevolopment]

It's a sub-race within the species of Homo Sapiens.

You wanted to write sub-human but can't because you have rebuild and get into our good graces since your little "outburst"

 

[Shushue]

It’s strictly ethnic

There are cushitic Somalis and bantu Somalis

 

[guntiino101]

1. Is it the ethnicity, language and culture or being from the lands in the horn?
Being Somali is an ethnicity and culture
Being Somalian is a nationality

2. Are bantus and cad cads a part of the Somali nation
- Yes, of course, they're part of the Somali(an) nation since they live in Somalia and have for many generations.

3. Can someone become "Somali"
- They can become Somalian by nationality but not ethnicity

4. Do you believe a national somali identity exists?
No

 

[esmailxxx]

1.Its an ethnicity,language and shared culture,few people in africa can say the same

2.They are citizens of somalia,especial cad cad since they helped to form mogadishu/or was it just them? hence reer xamar,but not somali

3.Somali is an ethnicity you are eighter somali or not,but being from somalia,part of that country is a different story

4.Yes,again few countries,1 or 2 in africa can claim this

It was a stupid arguement somali vs somalian,wtf is somalian,good work mods

 

[Shushue]

There are no Bantu Somalis. Those are just Bantus who happen to live on imaginary man-made political borders called Somalia.

So what’s a Somali? Why do all of us call ourselves Somali?

 

[Apollo]

So what’s a Somali? Why do all of us call ourselves Somali?

Everyone from Somalia who is not an Oromo, Bantu, Arab, or Benadiri is a Somali.

Of course, some exceptions.. but generally this rule covers 99%.

 

[MarehanBanker]

Everyone from Somalia who is not an Oromo, Bantu, Arab, or Benadiri is a Somali.

Of course, some exceptions.. but generally this rule covers 99%.

How can you be from Somalia but not be a Somali

 

[Apollo]

How can you be from Somalia but not be a Somali

I am from Germany and I am not a German. f*ck off with your new age shit.

 

[MarehanBanker]

1. Is it the ethnicity, language and culture or being from the lands in the horn?
Being Somali is an ethnicity and culture
Being Somalian is a nationality

2. Are bantus and cad cads a part of the Somali nation
- Yes, of course, they're part of the Somali nation since they live in Somalia and have for many generations.

3. Can someone become "Somali"
- They can become Somalian by nationality but not ethnicity

4. Do you believe a national somali identity exists?
No

Your answers to 1,2 and 3 are contradictory

 

[esmailxxx]

How can you be from Somalia but not be a Somali

How can one be from england but not be an anglo saxon??

 

[Shushue]

Everyone from Somalia who is not an Oromo, Bantu, Arab, or Benadiri is a Somali.

Of course, some exceptions.. but generally this rule covers 99%.

Do those Somalis have a common ancestor?

 

[guntiino101]

Your answers to 1,2 and 3 are contradictory

How? They're part of the nation, because their nationality is Somalian

 

[Steamdevolopment]

1. Is it the ethnicity, language and culture or being from the lands in the horn?

2. Are bantus and cad cads a part of the Somali nation

3. Can someone become "Somali"

4. Do you believe a national somali identity exists?

This post was inspired by a now deleted thread about somali vs somalian

I shall applaud you for making one of the few meaningful threads here this week

 

[MarehanBanker]

How can one be from england but not be an anglo saxon??

Historically, the English population is descended from several peoples – the earlier Celtic Britons (or Brythons) and the Germanic tribes that settled in Britain following the withdrawal of the Romans, including Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians. Collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, they founded what was to become England (from the Old English Englaland) along with the later Danes, Anglo-Normans and other groups. In the Acts of Union 1707, the Kingdom of England was succeeded by the Kingdom of Great Britain.[9]Over the years, English customs and identityhave become fairly closely aligned with British customs and identity in general

The correct version would be:

How can one be from Britain but not be British. Which is impossible.

 

[Shushue]

I agree that Somali as ethnicity is precedes historically the notion of a country name Somalia

So it’s right and justified to separate the two to make a point