Why do a lot of Somali families...

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...have kids that look nothing like each other? Wallahi it blows my mind how you have Somali siblings that look like different races. :ohhh:For example, in my fam, my brother looks blasian, my sister looks north African, and I look more typically Somali, but get mistaken for Indian sometimes too. And I know this one family, two kids look mixed with cadaan (very lightskinned), another kid is really darkskinned and kinda looks Bantu, one looks Habesha, and another looks Latino. And they all have the same mother and father. Also see this with a lot of other Somali families (albeit not as extreme as the last example).

How did this happen? :dwill: I get that each child has a different gene combination/expression of traits from their parents, but most siblings of other races look at least somewhat alike.
 
Book of suugo anthropology vol 5:

Our Cushitic forbearers were the first to leave afrika and spread our genes hence the various races around the world and why Somalis look like every race except with a chocolate complextion.
 
My family is the same my sister looks like Iman same complexion everything and I look Somali but also ethically androgynous to some people. It's annoying. :siilaanyolaugh:

But you know what, regardless of how different we all look, it's something about our skin, I call it the glow, we all have, that's how, we can tell eachother apart from non Somalis. :siilaanyosmile:
 
Why does every Somali say this ffs:snoop:

I look like "this" and "this".
You look Somali and you know it. Any non Somali would instantly recognise you. So lets stop with the self hate.
:ohlord:
 

Simodi

Chilling in Quljeed
I've met relatives who look like Sri Lankans and my parents get confused with other ethnicities although my siblings and I look Somali.
My dad met this Somali guy at work who he assumed was Sudanese and the other guy thought the same, they spoke Arabic to each other until they realised they were both Somali
:mjlol:
 
Why does every Somali say this ffs:snoop:

I look like "this" and "this".
You look Somali and you know it. Any non Somali would instantly recognise you. So lets stop with the self hate.
:ohlord:

If you don't live in an area with a lot of Somalis, non-Somalis will have no idea what a typical Somali looks like. Therefore ajnabis be looking like this when trying to figure out my ethnicity
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Sarah136

Hot and cold
I've met relatives who look like Sri Lankans and my parents get confused with other ethnicities although my siblings and I look Somali.
My dad met this Somali guy at work who he assumed was Sudanese and the other guy thought the same, they spoke Arabic to each other until they realised they were both Somali
:mjlol:

That's hilarious. :chrisfreshhah:

I have taken my mothers side (Yemeni). Somalis always speak English to me or they ask me if I speak Arabic
 
Everyone in my family looks the same, to extent that I'll be halfway across the world and a random Somali will ask me if I'm related to so-and-so.
 
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