YES GIRL!!!! Thanks for covering this! There is a black UA-camr who wanted to discover his African roots but went to East Africa. He had a huge wide nose and full lips with very tightly coiled hair and I was thinking to myself - he only went to East Africa because that's what he WISHES he could be!
@@Maranathaaaa8 They have BOTH European and Arab ancestry going back 1000 years. They are MIXED multi-generationally. The black UA-camr was of pure West African descent and acknowledged as much. Furthermore, I have been around East Africans and they don't like wide noses and big lips and coiled hair. They do NOT see themselves as "one" with the rest of Africa.
@@mschoy1597 that is true. I made that point because facts are facts.. there are many ingenious people from those places with dark skin and tight coils.I wasn't aware of the European one but I feel like the Arab one is crystal clear. I know/knew a west African girl that denied it so so so much. It's okay though, to each their own. She also said the people there MOCKED unambiguous darker skinned people from there and did everything to hide their type 4 hair if it was "too coily".
Yes the audacity of those of us with west African features, wanting to be something we're not, until we become in tune with the almighty, and understand the truth behind the phrase "I Am", we're only seeing the world through a keyhole. We must expand are minds.Then and only then can we navigate the world on a spiritual rather than physical plane. Obstacles, doors, resistance, all vanish, you'll want for nothing.
Once this African American coworker pointed at me and said "Look at her. there's nothing more beautiful than a beautiful black woman." I'm Ethiopian with the typical habesha features and very long curly hair. I found out later that guy only used to date white women, so i guess i was the next best thing to a white woman in his mind. Unfotunately, i've noticed this fetishization of Horn African women a lot. Some of these guys already have girlfriends and wives too, but still show interest. I don't find it flattering one bit. It's a turn off for me every time I see a West African/black American man start going crazy over Eritreans, Ethiopians, and Somalis. I would love to see these men putting their own women on a pedestal, the way Horn of Africa men put their women on a pedestal.
As a Somali 🇸🇴 who just stumble on this video, have you noticed that NOBODY questions the difference looks and shapes of the people in Asia such as Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Persians, Russians, etc? Yet when it comes to Africa which is MORE diverse than any other continent, brainwashed Africans always want to give credit to outsiders for the unique looks and shapes of Horn of Africans. This is how some people are brainwashed to conform foreign thinking by hating on the unique diversity of languages, features, and shapes. The tallest and shortest people in the world are found in Africa but some people think they’re the “same” when it not. I wish people educate themselves without resorting and given credit to Europeans and Arabs for the ancient looks of the people in the Horn of Africa
Can someone tell me what’s the difference between Northwest African and North African in terms to genetics and phenotypes? Also, could someone tell me the difference between East Africans and Northwest Africans in terms of genetics and appearances? Thanks
As someone how is Eritrean habesha I hate how the Western people look at us calling us mixed or something I will let you know we are one of the oldest people on earth according to science and evidence and we always looked like that thousands of years ago even me and my siblings don't look like each other I'm very dark skinned afro hair 4b 4c type while my sister's are light skin wavy hair that doesn't mean we mixed and I hate how she said black to say that West African looking people as if were not even qualified as black and they're is nothing wrong with getting mistaken for another race people. Some people mistake me for Indian sometimes even though i carrying the heaviest afro on my head she seemed offended to be cold habesha it's a gift to be one that's why you're not 👎🏾
I completely agree with you. I am dark-skinned, long hair, smaller nose. When my hair is braided, NO ONE questions my ethnicity. As soon as I let my hair down: immediately people have a hard time accepting that I am fully African. I have thought about exactly what you said about every continent having diversity, but Africa is not allowed. Even the lady in this video said East Africans are mixed. I am from the west, and still have these features.
A lot of the times when I see black men post videos trying to compare East African women to other black women, I see East African women in the comments section telling black men that they don’t want them to come to their country 😂
Lol, that's true. Like we would rather stick to our men, they are more attractive and understand us and our culture better. Why would they think we would love them is beyond me, if nothing we like thier dollars but even then we prefer Arab and white men ( not the Dutch tho They go 50/50) either way we Don't want them like that. But their delusion is funny 😁 😂
@Allah_Loves_Forgives_and_Saves a lot of them are broke and abandon their children here in America so I can understand why you wouldn’t want them there😂
As a somali man from Djibouti, I find African American people beautifull. Beauty is not only about physical appearance, it also includes personality, and I think that the thing that is the most admirable about a people is resilience. Few cultures around the world have the same resilience shown by African American people when you look at their history in north america. Not only did they survived the tragedies of the last 400 years, they also thrived with the little they had.
yeah being an east african person who has grown up in america is a really strange experience bc i rly do consider myself black/ unambiguous but there have been many times where african american men have said they have a thing for somali girls & being so open with their fetish & how they like our hair.. it's rly icky bc i know a lot of them say they won't go for a dark skin girl/ woman but are ok as long as a black woman has our features there's definitely a pedestal put on being east African & it sucks when you realize someone is only attracted to you bc you happen to be from a certain country or that's the only thing they want to talk to you about
I find like black/unambiguous bw who only date black men are more bitter and insecure. It’s usually the ones who don’t date black men who don’t care abt not being the “preference”. White guys always obsess over me and so do black men, but since I don’t notice them I didn’t realize until I was 17 how much they don’t like UABW and that’s only because a beautiful East African girl told me how AA men would treat UABW in school.
It’s very real. No offense to my Somalis but I hate getting mistaken for one because it’s so many men who MUST have a Somali woman and are obsessed with getting with one .
My friend is half African and half South Indian. She has small features with thick curly hair and a thin body with curvaceous hips. She gets mistaken for an East African a lot and usually gets lots of attention from men. Lol...
@@charityervin9040 ok…why are you in a space dedicated to celebrating mixed/lighterskin or UABW? You can love your fro, and we can love our loose curls.
Omg yes ! I get hate comments on this channel all the time- it’s like , out of the millions of other channels on here, why come to this specific one just to complain ? 🤣
@@ExoticalsUnited they want to be part o the pretty girl gang to be validated because the colorism youyube channels are filled with bitter jealous women
So what is a "NON EXOTICAL " BLACK WOMAN? This is just REALLY sad, and why BLACK people will always be left behind, and lack unity. If we're not judging each other, and treating each other based on skin tone, we're judging each other due to phenotypes. This shit has got to stop. As a caramel complexioned woman, with a slightly broad nose it took years for me to feel good about my features, and I actually used to hold the base of my nose and breathe through my mouth, for minutes, to try and "shape" my nose, as a part of my beauty regimen, to make it appear smaller. It's just sad, and it needs to stop. Because whether you are an "exotical" BLACK person, or a "Non exotical", BLACK person, the ones that hate us, will view us with the same name--a NI¢¢ER. Just stop it, please.
I used to get mistaken for Ethiopian/East African everywhere I went. I even had 1 Ethiopian guy argue me down to the ground for like 15 mins insisting I had to be Ethiopian somewhere down the line. I will never forget him telling me, "I have seen you walking down the streets of my country!" Lol. Fast forward years later...I took an ancestry test and found out that my maternal lineage traces back to East Africa. I was stunned. In fact, almost everything I've ever been mistaken for (Latina, Indian, Middle Eastern, Southern European, East African) showed up in my ancestry results! And here I grew up thinking I was just a mono racial LS black girl!
The same thing happens to me…I’m mixed South African and we have many East Africans in my city they always assume I’m Ethiopian and speak Amharic to me.
So true! I’m light skin, and I had really long hair when I was younger, but I do have west African features. I noticed that when I was with one of my friends who had more European features she always got the attention from men, no matter her skin tone. I’m older now and I’ve learned to love myself and not worry about the beauty standards ☺️
This is a great explanation as to why Black people are so obsessed with Egypt. As if Egyptians claim Black Americans. We don’t know enough about West African history so we romanticize Egyptians wishing Cleopatra was black (sorry she just wasn’t nor was she beautiful) and we all look like Nefertiti (who would be considered dark skin exotic)
I love everything about your channel. You talk about the things that need to be talked about but are often swept under the rug. Definitely sharing this with friends and family.
I love that made you this video! I’ve been binge watching all your videos the last 3 weeks. I love that you’re so respectful and said Somali (not Somalian). I do want to say most of my people from Somalia have for hundreds of years only married within our own ethnicity. That’s not because of preference but also a rather of survival! That’s why growing up in America born and raised I used to be so surprised when I’d hear how common Americans mixed but for the most part anywhere outside of where my family is from. My perspective has changed I don’t mind mixed children, I do see mixed Somali children from time to time. It’s funny how they completely end up looking like the opposite race/ethnicity, which makes sense when people say human life started in East Africa. A lot of us Black women carry the eve gene. But if you listen to other platforms like Chrissie or unambiguous BW channels they will never bring us up. I’ve had some UABW tell me I’m not Black, use divide and conquer tactics like East vs West Africa when in reality we don’t look at each other that way. I have family that are dark skin, some light, some with 4C hair some with 2A hair, and me with 3C/4A combo. My own siblings come out looking light and some of us dark and we have the same parents. It’s just a matter of DNA and tbh East Africans have an interesting DNA complex where when we mix with other races it completely changes to that race, but when we stick with our own ethnicity we still don’t 100% come out one shade lol one kid might be dark skinned with very loose hair, one might be brown skin with more thick hair. The fetishization I’ve experienced has changed as I’ve gotten older. When i was younger no one liked Africans especially at my school people thought we “stank” lmaoooo now i can’t seem to wrap around my head when we became the hot topic. But it depends, i know if i moved to more multicultural area like Dallas, Houston, ATL, I’d have a lot more opportunities just based on my skills and looks. But up here in the Midwest not so much and too much isolation can be dangerous 😂 Social media opened our eyes and I’m so thankful for you bringing up this topic . I love learning and sharing our personal experiences with out centering features or hair or being constantly told you have Eurocentric nose and Eurocentric features. Actually white people pay for my nose babe. 😂
@@commentpoliceofficer7991 I remember that video and I’ve been a long time subscriber of that channel. I think what most people forget is there’s lot of unambiguous monoracial East Africans as well, the media just chooses a specific type of look of mixed race or ambiguous features on a woman to promote. I used to feel really down about getting categorized as other and “mixed” even tho I am 100% not mixed, just because of my features I don’t like how I am considered by Americans non black. I choose to no longer feel bad or put down by my race, ethnicity, hair texture, phenotype, and I am happy men like Bryson Tiller put women that look like me in their music videos.
@@ugaaskacadde3961 exactly how i said it 😂 back then no one married just anyone… you had to know your wife/husbands tribe, family, and it was a status thing. Aka survival.
This is a slippery slope I feel like . I've seen very darkskinned South Sudanese considered "eurocentric". So it makes me wonder if the West African look that's not Fulani is scorned and looked down upon.
Of course it’s looked down upon. People will literally say someone looks West African as an insult lol. Thats why it’s funny to me when ppl say this has nothing to do with Eurocentrism
I am Jamaican, Guyanese and Scottish on my moms side and Black American and Blackfoot Native on my dads side. I am a model living in NYC so I can definitely say I am a dark skin women who constantly gets asked what am I, while having my features and hair picked apart. There is a special case of pretty privilege as I find that no matter people’s race, they generally point out my beauty, try to find a way to connect me to their culture, I get away with a lot (harmless annoyances), as well as sponsorship and free things. Men say the dardnest things but it’s very evident that they would prefer the children to completely take after me, this is with all races not just black men (but they are the #1). The biggest downside is that I have found white women to treat me like a deadly threat. I noticed that when they think I have access to something they don’t it gets ugly. One time a girl tried to correct a guy friend of hers and say “she’s pretty for a black girl” and was mad when he said “ no she’s just pretty.”
Wow we are the same mix but without the Jamaican. Im from NYC to. I’ve modeled too but not anymore it wasn’t my thing. Im dark too and literally have the same exact experience. People are always pressed to know what am I. Sometimes it’s done in a obnoxious way where I’m put on the spot in front of group of people and I get very uncomfortable because I’m the only person being asked. Some people energy shift towards me after they know my mix.
As an East African (Ethiopian) I love that you spoke about this. There are times I will see an MLS or ambiguous blk person and will believe they can pass for a habesha (habesha meaning Ethiopian or Eritrean) so I’m not surprised to hear anyone may have believed that about you. I do want to say that many people believe we are mixed when we’re not. They believe we have Yemen, Arab, Italian, or some other Ethnicity/culture in our blood line due to our euro-centric features. The thing is Ethiopia is the birth place of humanity so it’s only logical that our features did not come from anywhere else but vice versa. We are the origin. We come from the Cushitic background so although we may look mixed, we’re not. Nothing wrong with being mixed because mixed people are indeed beautiful but when anyone says that Ethiopians in particular are mixed they are misinformed. There is such a diversity within Ethiopia. A lot of what you said is fact. We come in darker skin and lighter skin but when speaking of the stereotype, majority of us do have a very distinctive look with our nose structure, lips, skin tone, high cheek bones etc. It can also depend on the Ethnic group we come from. Tigrayans tend to be a bit darker skinned while people from Addis tend to be lighter. Not saying that there aren’t any lighter skinned people within Tigray or darker skinned within Addis. This is the majority. We can also have curly, straight, or kinky hair. I never saw it as obsession when it came to our looks but you did make a very good point. I have both light and dark skinned women within my family and they all look mixed. My mother is darker skinned with blue eyes and wavy hair. I don’t know where or how she got blue eyes. All I know is she was born that way. I also have a relative who has hazel eyes. So yes again there’s so much diversity within Ethiopia but for the most part you will be able to spot us out due to our distinctive features. I believe when it comes to MLS and East Africans we do have some things in common but I don’t want to get into that right now since this comment was already pretty long lol. This was very insightful and again appreciate you speaking on this 💗
Thanks ! this channel has both mixed and “mixed looking” people on it who have no traceable ancestries to other people groups. whether these groups actually have mixture or not, they certainly get treated like they do here in the U.S.
@@ExoticalsUnited Yes, I’m aware and I completely agree with that. As an Ethiopian I definitely get that type of treatment and that’s why I can relate to a lot of your videos. That’s also part of why I feel we have a lot in common as far as our experiences and the way others may perceive us.
@@RiriLove88 I’m so happy you said this. We are indigenous and we come from where the first human bone was found. We look like Europeans, Arabs, Mixed, Latinos and even Indians. But we are not related. Thank you EU for clearing this for us ❤
@@Jan4Jan4NA Yes exactly! I understand the confusion behind it but the fact remains. I’ve had Indians assume I must be Indian. When I told them that I’m not at all Indian nor am I mixed with it, they didn’t believe me. Not just because of how I look but apparently my name is also an Indian name lol. We really do look as if we could be mixed with many different cultures. One of my cousin’s college professors said to the class that Ethiopians are pretty much Caucasian lol. I certainly don’t look that way to others. I am melanated that’s for sure. Maybe a bit caramel complected but far from Caucasian lmao.
I feel that the tribes in the Omo Valley are the indigenous peoples of Ethiopia. I think it would be interesting for those of you in the North to trace your 'ancient' dna and ancestral migration.
As a lightskinned horner with 3b hair, growing up in the west was a really weird experience. I kind of had an identity crisis going on because despite having a darkskinned mother I still felt like I couldn't identify as black because of my racial ambiguity. With my hair straightened people can hardly tell I'm black and I feel like someone holding onto that 5% even though its more like 70%.
You’re welcome ! you guys are the standard for DS unambiguous mono African American women. I’ve noticed that’s why people try throw shade at you guys with the featurism and texturism talking points
Im Ethiopian/Eritrean and thank you for speaking on this. And dont forget about the Northern Nigerian girls whose ancestors came form the horn of africa and sudan in the 13th Century. They catch it too.
@@AlmazB Sorry, it was someone else who said that. You said Horn of Africa, but their ancestors are not from the Horn. They're mainly a mix of West African and North Africans.
This phenomenon is very much spoken about. Here in the UK and Caribbean black men and women boast of having south Indian ancestry. Coolie or Douglas as it is better known and widely accepted as the beauty standard, soft curls long hair brown skin and refined features. There was a lot of drama surrounding TYLA- non ambiguous black women claiming she is a black woman when in fact her father is 100% Indian and her mother is mixed! The obsession will never cease to stop and you are absolutely right! When speaking of black beauty they always mention the above! It's never the likes of lupita nyongo or precious- gabourey sidibe, or viola davis or oprah Winfrey or whoopi goldberg- the black women that are look like the majority of non ambiguous black women!
I'm a East African ( Kenyan) people say we use alot of make-ups to make our faces slim ( model type) thank you for pointing our features out there....😊
I'm a Somali woman living in Canada and it's true. People of different race always tell me that I could be a model (I'm 5'2 lol), they say that I have aqua line features (whatever that means) and people are always nice or want to do things for me. My fiancé is white so mom is worried that our future children would look white because that is the case so far for Somali women with my features. I'm honestly glad that you covered this topic because I understand my situation better 💖🎀
That doesn't just apply to people with aquiline features but most horn Africans in general. It's due to the paleolithic admixture, it means mixing with non-Africans results in more non-African related phenotype
We horners are beautiful regardless of color. We’ve never had a colorism issue. Our feature are African as well. White people and Arabs got their features from us because we came first.
East Africans looks alike I am Eritrean , but my sisters from Kenya, Somali, Sudan Uganda and Rwandan Tanzania and Burundi and yes it’s annoying when ppl fetishized! I also lie when people ask me where I am from.
@@Lemlem7682 They fought against y'all the whole 30 years for what? To admit to claim the same people the same people did not want them to become an independent? I wouldn't claim neither.
@@Lemlem7682 Fix your whole tribal issue first. Seriously why is Ethiopia in such turmoil these day. Never a day without conflict between Tigray, Amhara or Oromo.
@keshi5541 It's because of you Eritreans, if Ethiopia 🇪🇹 would deport all Eritreans out of Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and shut down the border between Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Eritrean until then. Ethiopia 🇪🇹 always would have turmoil..
I am Somali and I remember blck Caribbean Canadian girls literally being grossed out I was “just” African and not mixed. It was so bizarre as I didnt quite understand/know as much about all this background. Here I thought they were just complimenting my hair style and clothing. The girls from the Caribbean were notorious at the time for absolutely HATING Somali girls in our schools in Canada so I was genuinely excited to make “blck” friends in University. Looking back, they were the absolute worst to me in high school too. They would literally go out of their way to be mean and I went to “good” schools. A lot of Somali people are very pro-African so it was jarring to see this animosity. But I am older so African was not a good title. Now they want to embrace it but just certain parts. Totally bizarro-land especially when I travel to the US. Edit - One of the most awesome chicks I met was Caribbean Canadian. She was excited she wasnt the only blck person in our professional program. So there are awesome people out there and I wish we could all just grow together.
@@LakshaDeirwa They were the first major black immigrants in Canada and East Africans came 20/30 years later. I think they didn’t like us because we had our own identity and that we were very different from that. I noticed UABP don’t like it when you don’t claim black as your only identity.
OMG! I’m glad I’m not the only one that experiences this. I have had multiple Ethiopian people assume that I’m Ethiopian. Sure enough my uncle and his wife adopted a little girl from Ethiopia and people think she is my little sister 🤦🏽♀️ lol
Oh, I learn something new every day. Didn’t realise I was East Africa phenotype. Just knew Ethiopian’s talk to me in their language and seek me out if they see me, when I start a job, on the bus etc. Been told by a woman ‘I’d love to take you and your husband to Ethiopia- everyone looks like you!’ 😂 I think I look Somalian; the kids look exactly like how my sister and I look like as kids. Yes, and lucky me, I’m extremely beautiful. I look like a cross between Iman and Naomi Campbell, but lighter. Thanks for the info.
right, i knew they had a distinct look but yeah. me and my brother get mistaken as "habesha" all the time. for the longest time both of us were like what is a habesha is that an african tribe? then one day i finally looked it up lol
@@ExoticalsUnitedNot a tribe but an ethno-linguistic group. Since there are multiple tribes that are habesha that each tend to look different from each other.
Alot of us in horn africans dont consider ourselves black we dont even look like them is just sad for them to view us as their beauty standard it would be like us looking at bantu people as our beauty standard. Black America people know who is black and who's biracial or mixed they are just unhappy with how their own people look they will tell dominicans biracials all the unambiguous looking people with different features and phenotypes force them to identify as black.
Yes I’ve noticed you guys look NOTHING alike (which is fine) and in the U.S. there’s an obsession over you guys. How do I know? Because me and my brother have been mistaken for habesha Ethiopian multiple times 😂 the unambiguous African American community loves using your phenotypes as the darker skinned standard of beauty
@@gem5723No. A lot of the older disinterest in the term “blck” comes from East Africans seeing it as colonial brainwashing. Literally in a “how dare they tell us what we are and erase our ancient identities”.
I don't think the information regarding east African phenotype is strictly true, as I'm pretty sure east Africans have slimmer noses because they are closer to the deserts. West African the opposite. I could be wrong. Also, I have full features brown skin but people think I'm mixed with asian or that I'm east African And in my experience, it'smainly my own black people to tell me that I'm not fully black because of whatever special reason 🫠. Though I have had East Africans mistake me for them. I'm British Jamaican btw x
Love your channel didn’t even know what somilan was until recently some lady stopped me and ask was I India then if I was somilan and I’m like lady leave me alone so I look at them and was like ok she just called me pretty lol …. But when I went out people were like you look like Halima Aden so I felt proud to get compliments for once instead of weird stares lol 😅 anywhooooo somilan women are peak beauty and so are Indian women like chefs kiss 😘 I feel great because growing people were like what r u and it hurt my feelings lol I would be like I’m black like you and more nasty crazy stuff that if I wrote I would probably cry lol anywhoo to my ladies with a beautiful face great body stay safe because jealousy is real ❤❤❤!!!!
I’m East African (Tanzanian) and my grand mother comes from a looong line of Omani people who colonised my country. I’ve had friends and people wonder where exactly I’m from in every country I’ve visited. They can’t pinpoint “what” I look like. Some even deny that I’m African.
I’m half tanzanian and come from Yemen and omani back ground and people think of me as exotic in a way cause I have dark skin and mid loose tight curls
Can someone tell me what’s the difference between Northwest African and North African in terms to genetics and phenotypes? Also, could someone tell me the difference between East Africans and Northwest Africans in terms of genetics and appearances? Thanks
I have had an Ethiopian man ask if I were and I look NOTHING like them. I'm half Lakota and half Gullah/ Geechee of Woodabe descent. But yeah I don't look like them and never understood anyone mistaking me for one. I think just being beautiful while black sometimes makes people want to categorize you even when you look nothing like someone.
@@rediettadesse2828 I could see how a lay person would think so tbh. But not an actual Ethiopian. I see some similar features, but Africa is more genetically diverse unto itself than any two people from different continents. I think there are distinct differences when you really look at different groups. I think we really dont leave room for how diverse African countries are due to how slavery blinded us to a lot of other African features. They arent less black looking any more than an Indian is less Asian looking. They are from Africa, and that entails looking different just like anywhere else.
@@SharonBoo0305 but see, based off your photos it makes way more sense. For me I appreciate the compliment, but I definitely throw off more Blasian vibes if anything.
I’m a dark skinned woman who often gets mistaken for being Habesha because of my looser hair texture and smaller features. I get accused of being privileged all the time. I never understood why other dark skinned women and girls did not like me because I assumed we were the same. According to them, we’re not. It’s really sad.
This is such an interesting topic! Thank you so much for addressing it. Yes. It is featurism with colorism on display when it comes to this issue. I have NO DNA from East Africa or the Arab world. Due to the way my very mixed DNA (14 different ethnic groups worldwide) expressed itself, I have the general look you are describing here. My general DNA breakdown includes 70% West African and 30% European. MANY people think I am either Ethiopian or Trinidadian. Ive had to literally argue with people from those countries who INSIST I am from their country. Kinda crazy. Beauty can be and is found in ALL people. Attitudes make a big difference in expression of beauty. And Yes! I have received shade and hate from Black people who have more solid West African features and hair texture, as well as from White women who feel like my look challenges the privilege that their beauty standard comes with. They usually want to peg me as being beautiful but stupid. It enrages them even further that I am kind, full of empathy and academically/professionally accomplished . The pain of being judged made me go inward, seek self acceptance and work hard to be the best version of myself.
As an Eritrean I can tell you based on me DNA results, I’m 100% black 🤷🏽♀️ yall just have to get over the fact that some black people can look this way without being mixed.
@@3ritr3anCuti3 East Africans are the oldest race of humans. Arabs actually evolved from THEM. Same with Asians. They evolved from Afro Asiatic tribes who initially had dark skin and coily hair like the Khoisan people
I'm constantly mistaken for east African eventho I'm mgm west African and European. I also use to have uabw tell me my nose was too small and literally tried to shame me for having a small nose in high-school but now today they turn around and contour the heck outta their noses.
@twilight14971 8 minutes ago I am African American. Since I was young I was referred to as an exotic looking black girl. My mom is dark brown and my dad is light brown. The way their genes came together to create me I am always told that I look mainly Somali or Ethiopian sometime Caribbean. I also have long thick hair because I take care of my hair. When I was relaxed my hair was long and thick and now that I’m natural when I wear my hair down in a silk press no one believe ls that I am African American. I took a DNA test and of course my maternal haplogroup had confirmed that my female ancestors originate from the Horn of Africa. Its apparent in my nose, eyes, and lips shape as well.I also get sooo much unwanted attention, jealousy, and pure hate when I wear my hair down. I rarely wear it down anymore but ill get back to it.
I am tired of explaining this to y'all - if you are "African American" but look like you are from the Horn of Africa - you have WHITE ANCESTRY. It's in your BLOOD. That's why people confuse you for Somalians and Eritreans and Ethiopians. You are NOT pure black.
Every ethnicity is a multinational generation we Somalis our features were the same for the last million years i hate when people try to say we are mix and their have the pure blood line like we are polluted or something
Can someone tell me what’s the difference between Northwest African and North African in terms to genetics and phenotypes? Also, could someone tell me the difference between East Africans and Northwest Africans in terms of genetics and appearances? Thanks
I’m so glad you talked about this. I’ve always realized that Black African people look different than Black Americans but didn’t realize the exact phenotypes until you mentioned it. I kid you not almost every Ethiopian person I have met has mistaken me as Ethiopian. I’m not sure exactly what it is though because I don’t think my features are as keen as there’s but yet I don’t think they’re as prominent as West African.
Same, I never thought my features were as keen as theirs either, but I’ve noticed the beauty standard in the African American community in terms of facial features for dark skinned women is often the East African phenotype
@@ExoticalsUnited exactly. But then call us the colorists, texturists, etc 😂. I’ve also noticed people mistake me for being mixed sometimes. I’m kind of curious. I might just do an ancestry test.
Once I moved to Atlanta GA, I constantly got mistaken for being East African. It got to the point that I questioned my family's appearance, and damn if we don't look East African LMFAO I always just considered I look like average light skinned Black American
I am from Kenya East Africa region but we have diversity we have tribes that looks like these women in Ethiopia and they are considered the most beautiful here as well. We have to admit those Ethiopian girls are beautiful and they are so proud of their African heritage ❤❤
I noticed this as well because East African/horn of Africa features are basically European or mixed raced features. I been waiting for you to cover this topic ever since you mentioned the obsession of East African features (in passing) a couple of videos back. Nice.
@@jzmnmrh0009 Your statement doesn't take into account certain things like intermixing with other cultures that shaped human evolution over time. One prevailing theory suggests that all life originated in Africa and then spread to different parts of the world, with features evolving in response to various environmental pressures. For instance, Europeans may have developed thinner noses as an adaptation to colder climates, while West Africans may have wider noses to aid in cooling in hotter climates. However, human evolution is not a straightforward process. It's influenced by a multitude of factors, including genetic diversity, environmental changes, and cultural interactions. For example, while African populations may have had certain original features, migration and intermixing with other groups, such as Arabs, over time could have influenced their physical traits which is why see that Somalians, East Africa including countries like Morocco, etc all have aquiline features which are different from West Africa. Overtime certain features have become associated with certain groups for example when we think of aquiline features we think of Europeans, (and yes European can have bigger noses but like Exotical United stated the exceptions is not the rule) or mixed race person, we don't think of Africans having those type of noses unless they are from East Africa - so statement is not quite true because it doesn't take into account evolution based on the environment and intermixing with other cultures. Let consider East Africa, where the environment is similar to West Africa both are hot, etc but the people of West Africa don't typically have aquiline noses. This difference can be attributed to historical interactions, such as the influence of Arab populations in East Africa so your statement doesn't hold true.
I had an East African friend once in high school and she was super pretty, this was only a few years ago. But a UABW tried to assault my friend accusing her of not being “black enough” and making fun of her East African features, but funny enough a few years later I see that this same girl is lying about being mixed with Ethiopian and photoshopping her pictures to look racially ambiguous. I’m a UABW myself but half of my family is from Belize (garifuna) so we’re all pretty mixed up (except myself bc I don’t have any known mixture) but I notice a lot of UABW obsess over my features, they don’t assume I’m mixed because my skin is darker and my hair is tightly coiled, but they see that I don’t look exactly like them, even though I’m fully black as far as I know. UABW in particular are very obsessed with slimmer, less harsh facial features and being “mixed” with something.
Omg EU! Same here! I have similar experiences to you, on a few occasions I have been mistaken for Cushitic/Ethiopian when walking around in the city centre of a town in the UK. I remember one time I was on a bus listening to music, a man behind me tapped my shoulder and started speaking another language, I told him that I didn't understand what he said, he said that he thought I was from an East African/Horn African country (I can't remember which country he mentioned). I was born in Jamaica but I moved to the UK with my family from a very young age. I get called 'coolie' (I have curly hair that would be a type 3 I guess - saying that, my hair strands are a mixture of wavy, curly, and there are some coils too - it is quite a mixed bag, lol) by my Mum and she has made comments that I look like I am Ethiopian/Somalian because I have a high forehead like a lot of them do.
The beauty of the East Woman is based on their Rome prominent foreheads and narrow jaws both features this creating a balanced face where the eyes and nose sit in the middle of the face, while the beauty of the West African woman is based on their wider pelvic area. The forehead of the West African is vertically narrow, thus the eyes and nose seem to be in the higher half of the face, and their jaws are strong, which give more volume to the bottom of the face while the upper half.of their face seems less prominent!
I did my DNA test on Ancestry and got 49% Nigerian amongst other west African countries and the Nigerians here in the U.S. often think I’m a fellow Nigerian.
Yes, obsession/fetishization and antagonization! I've had people literally tell me they thought I was a bitch because I'm ethiopian or they thought I was mean cause they thought all ethiopians are mean. I'm always taken aback and thrown off when I hear it LOL
I’m mgm and fenty 360. I always get mistaken for East African or Dominican. I’m always mistaken for being anything but American. My mom is from South Africa but she is Coloured.
Dark skinned woman answering the light skinned question - I've yet to come across an Ethiopian who doesn't ask if I'm from there. The last time it happened, the guy doubled down by asking where my parents were born. The funniest incident was when a greeting was used on me. That lady explained to me that she thought I was ignoring her and denying my heritage the way some do when they become "Americanized." 🥴
Omg same ! Some people were greeting me in other languages, it wasn’t until my friend mentioned they were Ethiopian that I realized they were mistaking me for them
Omg I’ve been mistaken for East African too (I’ve heard Eritrean, Ethiopian, Habesha), that’s probably what I get mistaken the most for besides Caribbean latino or b&w. It’s very clear that the black community has an obsession with East Africans, they are always arguing over whether they are black or not. African Americans try so hard to claim them.
@@JamzYamz7 chile ion know i just have to add my 2 cents because people think all African Americans are just West African when I’m over her 14 % Kenyan 2% Somali and strangely enough 2% North African as well 🤭
@@AB-im6de it’s called “My Heritage” and why would my dna be weird or inaccurate black Americans don’t even know where they come from slav3s weren’t just brought from West African and its many different possibilities im not that old the East African could have got mixed in by an East African immigrant in more modern times even a long time after and might have not even been a slav3 12.5 dna is your great grand parent so my great grand dad could of been full Kenyan immigrant i never met him
Yes! This channel is growing every single day and it WILL be a mainstream conversation very soon. We’re not going anywhere and this is an entire niche at this point, with similar channels popping up all over the place . We are not going to remain silent anymore and we are no longer afraid of other peoples opinions .
I’m from Nigeria but Fulani so my facial structure is more like the East African with type 4 hair. People seem to have a problem with my long hair. They would believe I’m Chinese before they believe I’m just a typical North Nigerian.😂
The colorism on that show? The way the dsbw always make snarky comments abt the MLS women’s appearance on the show like every other episode? Then forcing Katie to identify as fully black when her dad is white, Robyn and Giselle denying their MGM identity and acting disgusted about it. We should talk abt all that
Just came across this video and as a Somali guy I can assure you, Somalis are NOT mixed but have an ancient DNA that predates Arabs or others. Remember, it was the ancient Somalis and other Horn of Africans who populated the rest of the world specially the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. This means they have our features not the other way around. Hope that clarifies some misconceptions. Hope you have a great day/night. Take care
I'm a dark skinned woman with "pointed" features. My birth parents are Black American amd I inherited a blend of their phenotype. Your video is spot on. White people have boldly told me I don’t look like the "average Black girl" and many Black people have said I don't understand certain things bc I'm not "Black black." It's crazy. I am VERY proud to be a dark skinned Black American woman and wouldn't have it any other way....but sometimes in the back of my mind and heart, I still don't feel accepted. I thought that was something only biracial people dealt with but it's true for "straight/pointed" featured folks as well -at least in my experience.
Sis u hit the nail with this video 👏 i agree with everything u said. I especially like the part where u said that the facial features and hair texture play a part in how their skin tone is perceived or something like that. Same applies to me in a sense that my multigenerational admixture is a huge part of my identity in terms of my looks, features, mannerisms and how I'm treated and seen by others. If i was just unambiguous monoracial and was just fully black i wouldn't look or act the way i do so im so sick and tired of unambiguous black ppl always tryna tell me im just full black🤦🏾♀️ . Also another point i wanna make is that for East Africans like myself who are from Uganda, kenya and Tanzania get treated the same way exotical darkskins get treated by unambiguous darkskins because we set the beauty standard for unambiguous black people as we don't necessarily 100% look like Horn of Africa East africans ( somalis, Djibouti, Ethiopians) but we don't look like unambiguous west Africans either this is because in my country Uganda a very long time ago something called the Bantu Migration happened and West Africans moved into other parts of africa including the East African countries of Uganda, south sudan etc which madd us have some west african features etc. Please look up an influencer called Liyah Mai she's the perfect example of the typical east african look and if i wasn't 26% percent Nigerian and a little bit Central African i would 100% look like her Srry for my rant 😂😂 I loved this video sis and u rlly are like a therapist for all of us. Stay blessed exoticals united 💕
Please check your facts . Bantus came from the south and not from the west. Its literally the other way. Bantus are from the southern region that migrated to central and east and touched on some parts of west africa. A big chunk of west africans don‘t even speak bantu languages like huh? Also google tanzanians and congolese people. They literally look the same except the arab tanzanians . Kenyans are very diverse looking, i wouldn’t say that the majority look like exoticals . I personally cant tell ghanians and Ugandans apart. With that being said. Beautiful women are all over africa
@@fj8992 Bro The Bantu people are believed to have originated from the region of present-day Nigeria and Cameroon in 'West Africa'. Don't tell me to check my facts that are already facts and check urself. And they don't have to speak bantu especially because they migrated and spread across a large portion of sub-Saharan Africa, influencing the linguistic and cultural landscape of the region. Its the same way Jesus was jew and later on his teachings created Christianity. They didn't need to be Jew or speak Hebrew. Also i was speaking for most East africans and Congo is not an East african country. Obviously it doesn't apply to every single East africans just majority. If that wasn't the case then ppl wouldnt differentiate between east africans and west. Also Tanzanian ppl looking like congolese got nothing to do with them not being East African and possibly mutligenerationally mixed which is why i then talked about the bantu migration and how it affected the way some East africans look. Also with the kenyans being diverse that applies to every other country in the world. They won't alll look the same and fit the typical look. And I've been to kenya numerous times and have seen that alot of them look like East Africans in a sense that their heads are more narrow and they have more keen features again doesn't apply to every single individual but it applies to most. And yh there are some ghanaians and Ugandans that look similar but once again the majority don't and thats why theres a difference between us. And to conclude i never mentioned anything about other african countries not having beautiful women. I feel like u were tryna prove something out of what i said when u just repeated my statement in a way where it suited u. Please dont tell me to check my facts ik wtf im tlaking about and u were rlly generalosing everything i said when i clearly stated it doesn't apply to every single individual just the majority.
@@fj8992 The origin of Bantu is still debated, but central African, great lakes and east African Bantu have a 1000 years longer history than Southern Africa Bantu. West Africans have more variety of niger-congo languages while Bantu is a tiny piece, that's why Bantu is suspected to be a branch off.
A very interesting topic, following and learning from Namibia. We in Southern Africa have very interesting but diverse appearances. Maybe what i can remember from growing up, is that your skin tone did not really translate to how you experience life in our society. for example Namibia has people of typical Bantu origin in the north, and Khoi tribes in the central and South of the country. Here if you are from a mixed background, it is acknowledged, but people identify more with their cultural upbringing. I should also bring to the fore that, with the influence of hip hop (video vixen looks being popularised here as well), there is a wave of colorism and texture - ism in the arts industry and social media influencers culture. Denial of realities will not help us, the sooner we accept how deep our disdain for self goes, the sooner we can address it, and also deal with it. We should also start defining our own currency, and not be so eager to accept other people's defaults as our defaults too. for example, loose hair textures, light skin, narrow facial features etc. is other people's defaults, for us it is the exceptions.
Im a dsbw with a small nose chin and lips. I have been asked if i am east African but I am not. I am American… but I have a certain look that gets me stares and questions. I have loose curls and waves too. Blacks pedastalize my features but also hate me for them. They like to put my into blackness when they wanna humble me but if a man is staring at me and compliments me all of a sudden its ONLY BECAUSE I HAVE A CERTAIN LOOK…. i guess my blackness depends on their mood even tho I am clearly dark skin like natural niecy .. she’s a UA-camr… skin color. Love the vid hun and keep it up
Thanks alot for this video. I am partially East african myself along with some Sudanese. The thing with Somali and Ethiopians, as far as I know, is that they’re not mixed. They are just closer to European and Arabs genetically and fall under the group called “Afro-asiatics” same for Northern African people. The Narrow phenotype all across the world came from their ancestors probably from then thousands of years ago. Edit: There is a people in West-Africa called the Fulani they’re speculated to be Amazigh, or even of ancient East-African decent. But they are a 100% mgm though and you could find them scattered around in 15 different countries. They also come with light skin and “keen” features and do not look like the average Nigerian. Very interesting subject to do some research on.
I never said you were apart of the transatlantic slave trade. How would I know I'm not claiming to be they come up to me asking me and talking to me. So apparently they claiming me. I'm a keep it cute I suggest you do the same.
Ex UA-camrs Jamie&Nikki Perkins. Nikki and her sister got modelling gigs because of their hieght and East African features, even though I'm sure they are West African(Sudanese?). Even her mixed girls look East African!.
I'm a hairstylist and i do hair for a lot of east African women. I get mistaken for being east African a lot(specifically Ethiopian). They are genuinely surprised when i tell them I'm just American as far as i know lol. The people I've come across are pretty dope.
I’m not really mixed although I am 5% European(my father is Caribbean and my mother is west African) and my experiences have drastically changed since I started wearing my 3c hair out. I now I’ve got other bw asking me what I do to my hair or how they can get their hair like mine. And I feel like they’re side eyeing me when I say it’s my natural hair. My mother is also super pro black and she’s 100% west African(all the same ethnic group) which is pretty rare. So I feel a bit of shame when I wear my natural hair and I feel guilty that I think I look better with hair out than in styles that hide my hair. And I used to think that my mother’s pro black cause(one that she’s been neglecting me and my siblings to pursue mind you) was worthy and that she really wanted change, but it’s really just an ego preservation tactic. Turns out she’s just an undiagnosed narcissist, because this woman who has had locs my whole life(I’m 22) bought a curly puff to mimic my hair texture and it shook me to my core.
I'm in Colombia right now doing research on anti-black racism across the country historically and across current contemporary life. An afrodescendent activist told me very recently that there is a deep caste system based on racial phenotype in the country which has been entrenched within the structure of the society since slavery just like most other Latín American societies. Any Afro-descendent Latín American who may present with similar colouring or hair texture as some populations in the horn of Africa are just mixed with indigenous blood since these community's literally live side by side in particular regions and have experienced similar level of land dispossession and genocidal racial violence. I think Colombia's first Afrodescendent black vice president Francia Marquez Mina is one of the most inspirational afro-latina women in modern times. However since this channel does not seem to attract the most intellectually astute following I imagine this would be a subject too complex and, deep for the middle aged channel owner and her pretty ugly followers to grasp. All of the people who follow and comment on this channel have no idea how profoundly damaging this content is for the image of mixed and lighter complexioned people across the world. It is a gigantic act of self harm you inflict on yourselves, but I am in favor of you exposing your truest feelings so that we can all clearly understand what you really think and believe. Please do keep speaking up and revealing the deepest darkest ugliest side of the collective mixed race/light skinned psyche. From where I stand it it just appears as an endless stream of fascist tragi-comedy. América really isn't doing well and most intelligent people outside the US objectively think it is a country with some of the dumbest people in the world.
I’m Soulaan/African American from Tampa Florida. (Soulaan just means African American or Black American.) I always knew that of course I have family and ancestors from America after the slave trade, but I’ve always questioned my identity of where I actually came from Ancestrally. I’ve been told that I’m an American Indian, I’m a Hebrew Israelite, I’m Afro Asiatic, Original Black Asians, I’m the Original Arab and so on, but it didn’t really occur to me until I did my research.. So I’ve taken DNA tests to find that out, and I’m mixed with mostly West, South, Central and low amounts of East and North (Sudan) African. And of course I have the other continental admixtures like Europe and Indigenous American North. Now for the tribes that I’ve descended from in West Africa and other parts, we are super mixed w/ so many tribes as AA’s. But as far as I know, I descended from the Fulani and Yoruba Paternally. And Mandinka and so on with other tribes down the line. That’s why we have the phenotypes we do, especially sense we are mixed with other racial groups. Now enough of my blabbering of genetics, there was this time I was at a bus stop. And this Oromo (Ethiopian) Woman came up to me, and she asked “Hey are you Ethiopian?” I answered “Nah, I’m African American, but ancestrally I came from the Fulani and Yoruba” and we had a conversation just talking about stuff, getting to know one another. She was talking to me into Christianity, but I told her I was Semi Muslim so many times. 😂 She told me that she thought that I was Ethiopian because of my features, but this is due to my ancestral admixture of course. But if I were to say how many times I was mistaken for an Ethiopian or other East Africans, I would say a lot. But other than that, everything you said in this video is absolutely spot on. I’ve been looking into genetics, history and phenotypes for a good while now. And as a Soulaan, I’m proud to know more about my Soulaan ancestors and also my Ancestral African roots as well. It really changed my perspective on myself and everyone, because I used to go through self hate and identity crises growing up and hate my own group because of the things I’d see on TV.
I always get asked by East Africans if I’m also East African. I remember a yt man asked if I was Ethiopian 🤭 yaass I have been called Habasha 😂 I guess because I’m mixed that’s why. India and Malaysia is not too far from East Africa so yesss of course they look similar .
Also very good video. It certainly is this way for many people. Strange, and sad ... ideas about how to place beauty for people of African related ancestry. Or ...am I correct in trying to identify people this way?
@@runmedeep As a Yemeni man which being to somalia Many somalis just pretend superior to others I know somali tribe which burn a house of their daughters husband in which they were asleep and it was 1st night and they both die I saw at same time many indians and Yemeni men getting married to somali women(sorry for my bad English)
Can someone tell me what’s the difference between Northwest African and North African in terms to genetics and phenotypes? Also, could someone tell me the difference between East Africans and Northwest Africans in terms of genetics and appearances? Thanks
Northwest Africans are Berbers/Amazigh/Maghrebis (Morocco, Western Sahara Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Northern Mauritania and Northern Mali), Northeast Africans are Egyptians (Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt). Genetic breakdown of their main ancient components: Maghreb: 40% Anatolian Farmer (EEF), 35% Iberomarusian, 15% Levant Natufian, 10% Basal West African Egypt: 45% Levant Natufian, 20% Iran Neolithic, 20% Anatolian Farmer (EEF), 15% Ancestral East African Horn of Africa: 50% Ancestral East African, 40% Levant Natufian, 5% Iran Neolithic, 5% Mota (Ethiopian Hunter Gatherer) Overall, North Africans are around 80% West Asian on average, while Horn of Africans 40-50%.
As a Dark Skinned UABW you just answered a LIFELONG question I’ve had cause East African/African/Jamaican people often mistake me as them only AFTER praising my beauty and I always got offended cause it made it seem like beautiful black women don’t exist without crediting something outside of America or outside of my race. I have a slim nose, full head of natural hair (you’d be surprised how many people think that’s rare and credits me to being mixed because of it - the ignorance.) and slim lips, slender build. I never knew that was the phenotype over there. I don’t pay attention to Africa as an American and I see mixed people as mixed so I don’t compare myself to them either. Wow this really opened my eyes. But yes, I do have this phenotype and though you say it is the “exception” to the rule it’s a hard place cause I don’t feel like an exception. I feel black. I’m okay with being considered black. So it hurts in that sense that people see me as ‘other’.
Ethiopian people ALWAYS ask if I’m from their country, even after explaining my native/black American genetics they still will cock their head in disbelief. I take it as a compliment absolutely.. funny thing is 23andMe says I’m Nigerian(dads side) and I look like my dad🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
11:30 spot on ! that's pretty interesting Because of the country and province I'm located in, people often think I'm hatien (because I speak french), because there are also many mixtures in Haïti. People often think I'm Brazilian or Dominican, or cuban. I look like an island girl 😂 but I've only seen/experienced a real beach once, that's the funny part.
@@TheKimzer Aww I love Sudanese people. I was born in Sudan but came to the U.S at the age of 3. I speak Arabic as well. I don’t remember much about it, it’s black and white. The little I do remember were good memories. I love Shahi, and Arab food as well as Arab music and I believe it’s the influence I had from the Sudan culture. My parents loved living there. My dad (who has already passed on) said some of his best memories were there. The people, the food, the culture, everything ❤️🇸🇩🇪🇹
@@StopTheLiess Arabic is considered one of the Ethiopian languages. Yes Oromo is one of the languages, I simply didn’t mention it. That’s why I said “etc.” meaning there are other languages. Overall there are 95 languages spoken within Ethiopia as I said.
@@rediettadesse2828 Do your own research. It’s definitely not 10. Do you know how many different ethnic groups there are within Ethiopia? And you think we only have 10 languages. Google is free.
I'm Dark skinned with a Habesha surname from E-Africa. My experiences is mostly from West Africans phenotype looking people who usually quiz my name and features so much so that it propelled me to explain my background. Something I typically kept to myself, since the biggest group around me look similar. So none of my features stood out. The Features of my Parternal Grand-Dad's sisters give it away too. Two of my siblings are somewhat, 'yellow looking.' Well, we are from a Part Ham-Nilo group, its expected. As in the five tribes in Africa, Hamite, Half-hamite, Nilotic, Bantu, San people and Europeans/ and Asians settlers. I think anything different is intriguing to others and soon after questions follow.
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YES GIRL!!!! Thanks for covering this! There is a black UA-camr who wanted to discover his African roots but went to East Africa. He had a huge wide nose and full lips with very tightly coiled hair and I was thinking to myself - he only went to East Africa because that's what he WISHES he could be!
@@Maranathaaaa8 They have BOTH European and Arab ancestry going back 1000 years. They are MIXED multi-generationally. The black UA-camr was of pure West African descent and acknowledged as much. Furthermore, I have been around East Africans and they don't like wide noses and big lips and coiled hair. They do NOT see themselves as "one" with the rest of Africa.
@@mschoy1597 that is true. I made that point because facts are facts.. there are many ingenious people from those places with dark skin and tight coils.I wasn't aware of the European one but I feel like the Arab one is crystal clear. I know/knew a west African girl that denied it so so so much. It's okay though, to each their own. She also said the people there MOCKED unambiguous darker skinned people from there and did everything to hide their type 4 hair if it was "too coily".
@@mschoy1597 *east African, not Arab. Sorry for the misspelling
@@mschoy1597 Europeans came from East Africa talking about
Yes the audacity of those of us with west African features, wanting to be something we're not, until we become in tune with the almighty, and understand the truth behind the phrase "I Am", we're only seeing the world through a keyhole. We must expand are minds.Then and only then can we navigate the world on a spiritual rather than physical plane. Obstacles, doors, resistance, all vanish, you'll want for nothing.
Once this African American coworker pointed at me and said "Look at her. there's nothing more beautiful than a beautiful black woman." I'm Ethiopian with the typical habesha features and very long curly hair. I found out later that guy only used to date white women, so i guess i was the next best thing to a white woman in his mind. Unfotunately, i've noticed this fetishization of Horn African women a lot. Some of these guys already have girlfriends and wives too, but still show interest. I don't find it flattering one bit. It's a turn off for me every time I see a West African/black American man start going crazy over Eritreans, Ethiopians, and Somalis. I would love to see these men putting their own women on a pedestal, the way Horn of Africa men put their women on a pedestal.
Yes think of how much they obsess over Rubi rose she has a horn African background
As a Somali 🇸🇴 who just stumble on this video, have you noticed that NOBODY questions the difference looks and shapes of the people in Asia such as Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Persians, Russians, etc? Yet when it comes to Africa which is MORE diverse than any other continent, brainwashed Africans always want to give credit to outsiders for the unique looks and shapes of Horn of Africans.
This is how some people are brainwashed to conform foreign thinking by hating on the unique diversity of languages, features, and shapes.
The tallest and shortest people in the world are found in Africa but some people think they’re the “same” when it not. I wish people educate themselves without resorting and given credit to Europeans and Arabs for the ancient looks of the people in the Horn of Africa
Can someone tell me what’s the difference between Northwest African and North African in terms to genetics and phenotypes? Also, could someone tell me the difference between East Africans and Northwest Africans in terms of genetics and appearances? Thanks
Yes we are new to this side of the world so most don’t know this
As someone how is Eritrean habesha I hate how the Western people look at us calling us mixed or something I will let you know we are one of the oldest people on earth according to science and evidence and we always looked like that thousands of years ago even me and my siblings don't look like each other I'm very dark skinned afro hair 4b 4c type while my sister's are light skin wavy hair that doesn't mean we mixed and I hate how she said black to say that West African looking people as if were not even qualified as black and they're is nothing wrong with getting mistaken for another race people. Some people mistake me for Indian sometimes even though i carrying the heaviest afro on my head she seemed offended to be cold habesha it's a gift to be one that's why you're not 👎🏾
I agree with you as a somali girl . There's nothing mixed in my long family tree❤❤ 🇸🇴
I completely agree with you. I am dark-skinned, long hair, smaller nose. When my hair is braided, NO ONE questions my ethnicity. As soon as I let my hair down: immediately people have a hard time accepting that I am fully African. I have thought about exactly what you said about every continent having diversity, but Africa is not allowed. Even the lady in this video said East Africans are mixed. I am from the west, and still have these features.
I can easily tell the difference between mixed race Americans (Black Americans) and East Africans; the phenotypes are different.
Don't know about east africans but black americans are extremely diverse and not monolithic.
@@CierraJohnson-bh4mc People do not confuse mixed race Americans with East Africans like this video claims.
@@CierraJohnson-bh4mc Most AA are descendants from west Africa.
Im east african and my own fellow horners have confused me as mixed.
All east Africans we have the same features whether you are light or black , mixed or not
A lot of the times when I see black men post videos trying to compare East African women to other black women, I see East African women in the comments section telling black men that they don’t want them to come to their country 😂
Lol, that's true. Like we would rather stick to our men, they are more attractive and understand us and our culture better. Why would they think we would love them is beyond me, if nothing we like thier dollars but even then we prefer Arab and white men ( not the Dutch tho They go 50/50) either way we Don't want them like that. But their delusion is funny 😁 😂
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Then they Say East Africans are Anti black for wanting to keep it within their culture !
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@Allah_Loves_Forgives_and_Saves a lot of them are broke and abandon their children here in America so I can understand why you wouldn’t want them there😂
As a somali man from Djibouti, I find African American people beautifull. Beauty is not only about physical appearance, it also includes personality, and I think that the thing that is the most admirable about a people is resilience. Few cultures around the world have the same resilience shown by African American people when you look at their history in north america. Not only did they survived the tragedies of the last 400 years, they also thrived with the little they had.
Oh I 100% agree about African Americans and i love my African American background as well!
Afro/black Americans got hella cuties not gonna lie.
Too bad their male counterparts dropped the ball 🤦🏾♂️
That is such a beautiful and loving comment ❤
Bro im Djiboutian as well😂W comment though, I agree
@@NoRockinMansLandtrue
yeah being an east african person who has grown up in america is a really strange experience bc i rly do consider myself black/ unambiguous but there have been many times where african american men have said they have a thing for somali girls & being so open with their fetish & how they like our hair.. it's rly icky bc i know a lot of them say they won't go for a dark skin girl/ woman but are ok as long as a black woman has our features there's definitely a pedestal put on being east African & it sucks when you realize someone is only attracted to you bc you happen to be from a certain country or that's the only thing they want to talk to you about
I find like black/unambiguous bw who only date black men are more bitter and insecure. It’s usually the ones who don’t date black men who don’t care abt not being the “preference”. White guys always obsess over me and so do black men, but since I don’t notice them I didn’t realize until I was 17 how much they don’t like UABW and that’s only because a beautiful East African girl told me how AA men would treat UABW in school.
@@zaneconner-g3r agreed
@@seokjinsrunnynose8637 see I thought I was the only one omg
It’s very real. No offense to my Somalis but I hate getting mistaken for one because it’s so many men who MUST have a Somali woman and are obsessed with getting with one .
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 They only see light skinned women no matter the background as a one way ticket to erasing their blackness and fetishize them. AVOID at all costs
My friend is half African and half South Indian. She has small features with thick curly hair and a thin body with curvaceous hips. She gets mistaken for an East African a lot and usually gets lots of attention from men. Lol...
Just like Chili
I also think it's hilarious that UABW in America uses East African women as their beauty standards. It's like boo, yall don't look alike, AT ALL!
@@charityervin9040 ok…why are you in a space dedicated to celebrating mixed/lighterskin or UABW? You can love your fro, and we can love our loose curls.
@@queenofpuntunambiguous black woman, basically west African and AA girls who fit into the black feature stereotype
Because they’re delusional and lack self love
Theyre soo obssesed with us !! especially non exotical black women , always trying to analyse or genealogy
Omg yes ! I get hate comments on this channel all the time- it’s like , out of the millions of other channels on here, why come to this specific one just to complain ? 🤣
@@ExoticalsUnited they want to be part o the pretty girl gang to be validated because the colorism youyube channels are filled with bitter jealous women
As a non exotical bw I believe you bc I see it all the time. You’re not lying no matter how angry they get😘
So what is a "NON EXOTICAL " BLACK WOMAN? This is just REALLY sad, and why BLACK people will always be left behind, and lack unity. If we're not judging each other, and treating each other based on skin tone, we're judging each other due to phenotypes. This shit has got to stop. As a caramel complexioned woman, with a slightly broad nose it took years for me to feel good about my features, and I actually used to hold the base of my nose and breathe through my mouth, for minutes, to try and "shape" my nose, as a part of my beauty regimen, to make it appear smaller. It's just sad, and it needs to stop. Because whether you are an "exotical" BLACK person, or a "Non exotical", BLACK person, the ones that hate us, will view us with the same name--a NI¢¢ER. Just stop it, please.
I used to get mistaken for Ethiopian/East African everywhere I went. I even had 1 Ethiopian guy argue me down to the ground for like 15 mins insisting I had to be Ethiopian somewhere down the line. I will never forget him telling me, "I have seen you walking down the streets of my country!" Lol. Fast forward years later...I took an ancestry test and found out that my maternal lineage traces back to East Africa. I was stunned. In fact, almost everything I've ever been mistaken for (Latina, Indian, Middle Eastern, Southern European, East African) showed up in my ancestry results! And here I grew up thinking I was just a mono racial LS black girl!
Are we the same person? LMAO 🤣 yes! I feel like this happens to all of us !
@ExoticalsUnited IKR?! I'm like you sound like me the more I listen to you! 😆
The same thing happens to me…I’m mixed South African and we have many East Africans in my city they always assume I’m Ethiopian and speak Amharic to me.
Yesx, with my brother + I also. My father is from Kolkata which why I think people mistake my ethnicity.
@@queenofpunt i need to do a dna test!
So true! I’m light skin, and I had really long hair when I was younger, but I do have west African features. I noticed that when I was with one of my friends who had more European features she always got the attention from men, no matter her skin tone. I’m older now and I’ve learned to love myself and not worry about the beauty standards ☺️
This is a great explanation as to why Black people are so obsessed with Egypt. As if Egyptians claim
Black Americans. We don’t know enough about West African history so we romanticize Egyptians wishing Cleopatra was black (sorry she just wasn’t nor was she beautiful) and we all look like Nefertiti (who would be considered dark skin exotic)
But you cant prove cleopatra wasn't west african
@@BantuNiLo she was macedonian…
@@cooollll9002 How do you prove she was Macedonia
@@cooollll9002 am saying we are all basically guessing of how cleopetra looked
@@BantuNiLowe’re not everybody knows the woman is Greek, and there is even a statue of her face. She is not Black
I love everything about your channel. You talk about the things that need to be talked about but are often swept under the rug. Definitely sharing this with friends and family.
I love that made you this video! I’ve been binge watching all your videos the last 3 weeks. I love that you’re so respectful and said Somali (not Somalian). I do want to say most of my people from Somalia have for hundreds of years only married within our own ethnicity. That’s not because of preference but also a rather of survival! That’s why growing up in America born and raised I used to be so surprised when I’d hear how common Americans mixed but for the most part anywhere outside of where my family is from. My perspective has changed I don’t mind mixed children, I do see mixed Somali children from time to time. It’s funny how they completely end up looking like the opposite race/ethnicity, which makes sense when people say human life started in East Africa. A lot of us Black women carry the eve gene. But if you listen to other platforms like Chrissie or unambiguous BW channels they will never bring us up. I’ve had some UABW tell me I’m not Black, use divide and conquer tactics like East vs West Africa when in reality we don’t look at each other that way. I have family that are dark skin, some light, some with 4C hair some with 2A hair, and me with 3C/4A combo. My own siblings come out looking light and some of us dark and we have the same parents. It’s just a matter of DNA and tbh East Africans have an interesting DNA complex where when we mix with other races it completely changes to that race, but when we stick with our own ethnicity we still don’t 100% come out one shade lol one kid might be dark skinned with very loose hair, one might be brown skin with more thick hair.
The fetishization I’ve experienced has changed as I’ve gotten older. When i was younger no one liked Africans especially at my school people thought we “stank” lmaoooo now i can’t seem to wrap around my head when we became the hot topic. But it depends, i know if i moved to more multicultural area like Dallas, Houston, ATL, I’d have a lot more opportunities just based on my skills and looks. But up here in the Midwest not so much and too much isolation can be dangerous 😂
Social media opened our eyes and I’m so thankful for you bringing up this topic . I love learning and sharing our personal experiences with out centering features or hair or being constantly told you have Eurocentric nose and Eurocentric features. Actually white people pay for my nose babe. 😂
@@commentpoliceofficer7991 I remember that video and I’ve been a long time subscriber of that channel. I think what most people forget is there’s lot of unambiguous monoracial East Africans as well, the media just chooses a specific type of look of mixed race or ambiguous features on a woman to promote. I used to feel really down about getting categorized as other and “mixed” even tho I am 100% not mixed, just because of my features I don’t like how I am considered by Americans non black. I choose to no longer feel bad or put down by my race, ethnicity, hair texture, phenotype, and I am happy men like Bryson Tiller put women that look like me in their music videos.
What do you mean Not A preference
But By survival
Are you saying somali People did not like each other 😂🤔🤔
@@ugaaskacadde3961 exactly how i said it 😂 back then no one married just anyone… you had to know your wife/husbands tribe, family, and it was a status thing. Aka survival.
Exotical tax somali here 😂😂
@@salwa.goddes yesss sis 💙
This is a slippery slope I feel like . I've seen very darkskinned South Sudanese considered "eurocentric". So it makes me wonder if the West African look that's not Fulani is scorned and looked down upon.
Of course it’s looked down upon. People will literally say someone looks West African as an insult lol. Thats why it’s funny to me when ppl say this has nothing to do with Eurocentrism
Thats coz they were raped by Arab men and had mixed kids. N those mixed ppl still married a pure black person n kids come out with those features
@@StopTheLiess Hey I'm mixed..
which is funny because west Africa is so diverse, people wouldn’t even know how to recognise west Africans if they were in front of them
Yes , I am Sudanese and have been asked which one of my parents is black 😫 . Mind you both my parents are Sudanese
I am Jamaican, Guyanese and Scottish on my moms side and Black American and Blackfoot Native on my dads side. I am a model living in NYC so I can definitely say I am a dark skin women who constantly gets asked what am I, while having my features and hair picked apart. There is a special case of pretty privilege as I find that no matter people’s race, they generally point out my beauty, try to find a way to connect me to their culture, I get away with a lot (harmless annoyances), as well as sponsorship and free things. Men say the dardnest things but it’s very evident that they would prefer the children to completely take after me, this is with all races not just black men (but they are the #1). The biggest downside is that I have found white women to treat me like a deadly threat. I noticed that when they think I have access to something they don’t it gets ugly. One time a girl tried to correct a guy friend of hers and say “she’s pretty for a black girl” and was mad when he said “ no she’s just pretty.”
yup, im not surprised. thanks for watching!
Wow we are the same mix but without the Jamaican. Im from NYC to. I’ve modeled too but not anymore it wasn’t my thing. Im dark too and literally have the same exact experience. People are always pressed to know what am I. Sometimes it’s done in a obnoxious way where I’m put on the spot in front of group of people and I get very uncomfortable because I’m the only person being asked. Some people energy shift towards me after they know my mix.
@@Kristenn5omg we have to connect. I’ve found it somewhat hard to be friends with women who can’t understand
As an East African (Ethiopian) I love that you spoke about this. There are times I will see an MLS or ambiguous blk person and will believe they can pass for a habesha (habesha meaning Ethiopian or Eritrean) so I’m not surprised to hear anyone may have believed that about you.
I do want to say that many people believe we are mixed when we’re not. They believe we have Yemen, Arab, Italian, or some other Ethnicity/culture in our blood line due to our euro-centric features.
The thing is Ethiopia is the birth place of humanity so it’s only logical that our features did not come from anywhere else but vice versa. We are the origin. We come from the Cushitic background so although we may look mixed, we’re not.
Nothing wrong with being mixed because mixed people are indeed beautiful but when anyone says that Ethiopians in particular are mixed they are misinformed.
There is such a diversity within Ethiopia. A lot of what you said is fact. We come in darker skin and lighter skin but when speaking of the stereotype, majority of us do have a very distinctive look with our nose structure, lips, skin tone, high cheek bones etc.
It can also depend on the Ethnic group we come from. Tigrayans tend to be a bit darker skinned while people from Addis tend to be lighter.
Not saying that there aren’t any lighter skinned people within Tigray or darker skinned within Addis. This is the majority. We can also have curly, straight, or kinky hair.
I never saw it as obsession when it came to our looks but you did make a very good point. I have both light and dark skinned women within my family and they all look mixed.
My mother is darker skinned with blue eyes and wavy hair. I don’t know where or how she got blue eyes. All I know is she was born that way. I also have a relative who has hazel eyes.
So yes again there’s so much diversity within Ethiopia but for the most part you will be able to spot us out due to our distinctive features.
I believe when it comes to MLS and East Africans we do have some things in common but I don’t want to get into that right now since this comment was already pretty long lol. This was very insightful and again appreciate you speaking on this 💗
Thanks ! this channel has both mixed and “mixed looking” people on it who have no traceable ancestries to other people groups. whether these groups actually have mixture or not, they certainly get treated like they do here in the U.S.
@@ExoticalsUnited Yes, I’m aware and I completely agree with that. As an Ethiopian I definitely get that type of treatment and that’s why I can relate to a lot of your videos. That’s also part of why I feel we have a lot in common as far as our experiences and the way others may perceive us.
@@RiriLove88 I’m so happy you said this. We are indigenous and we come from where the first human bone was found. We look like Europeans, Arabs, Mixed, Latinos and even Indians. But we are not related. Thank you EU for clearing this for us ❤
@@Jan4Jan4NA Yes exactly! I understand the confusion behind it but the fact remains. I’ve had Indians assume I must be Indian. When I told them that I’m not at all Indian nor am I mixed with it, they didn’t believe me. Not just because of how I look but apparently my name is also an Indian name lol. We really do look as if we could be mixed with many different cultures. One of my cousin’s college professors said to the class that Ethiopians are pretty much Caucasian lol. I certainly don’t look that way to others. I am melanated that’s for sure. Maybe a bit caramel complected but far from Caucasian lmao.
I feel that the tribes in the Omo Valley are the indigenous peoples of Ethiopia.
I think it would be interesting for those of you in the North to trace your 'ancient' dna and ancestral migration.
one little thing, we somalis are for the most part very homgenous, we arent mixed with arabs. only a minority are.
As a lightskinned horner with 3b hair, growing up in the west was a really weird experience. I kind of had an identity crisis going on because despite having a darkskinned mother I still felt like I couldn't identify as black because of my racial ambiguity. With my hair straightened people can hardly tell I'm black and I feel like someone holding onto that 5% even though its more like 70%.
As a Somali woman yup 🙂🥲 this is basically my experience. Thanks for bringing attention to this.
You’re welcome ! you guys are the standard for DS unambiguous mono African American women. I’ve noticed that’s why people try throw shade at you guys with the featurism and texturism talking points
Im Ethiopian/Eritrean and thank you for speaking on this. And dont forget about the Northern Nigerian girls whose ancestors came form the horn of africa and sudan in the 13th Century. They catch it too.
Very true. Well not for me but my mother is Fulani with very loose curls and people would always ask if she was mixed or arab or something else
They are not from Ethiopia. Genetics research have shown they're a mix of Northern African ( Amazigh/ Middle Eastern), Nilo Saharan, and West African.
@@theaksumite7786 I never said they were.
@@AlmazB Sorry, it was someone else who said that. You said Horn of Africa, but their ancestors are not from the Horn. They're mainly a mix of West African and North Africans.
@theaksumite7786 Know those people migrated from Sudan. Thet still speak a Sudanese type Arabic dress like Sudanese and their customs are the same.
This phenomenon is very much spoken about. Here in the UK and Caribbean black men and women boast of having south Indian ancestry. Coolie or Douglas as it is better known and widely accepted as the beauty standard, soft curls long hair brown skin and refined features. There was a lot of drama surrounding TYLA- non ambiguous black women claiming she is a black woman when in fact her father is 100% Indian and her mother is mixed! The obsession will never cease to stop and you are absolutely right! When speaking of black beauty they always mention the above! It's never the likes of lupita nyongo or precious- gabourey sidibe, or viola davis or oprah Winfrey or whoopi goldberg- the black women that are look like the majority of non ambiguous black women!
I'm a East African ( Kenyan) people say we use alot of make-ups to make our faces slim ( model type) thank you for pointing our features out there....😊
Yep, I get confused for Somalian sometimes. I think it’s my nose. Love your darker skinned exotical content by the way.
yes dark skinned exoticals are the beauty standard for UADSBW ive noticed .
Yapp you look Somali 😁 you’re right it’s the nose 👍🏽 you look gorgeous
@@SimplySadia_my nose is similar and I’m obviously not mixed with East African.
@@zaneconner-g3r I replied to Miss Canada not to you
@@SimplySadia_ I’m saying that having a nose like that doesn’t mean East African
I'm a Somali woman living in Canada and it's true. People of different race always tell me that I could be a model (I'm 5'2 lol), they say that I have aqua line features (whatever that means) and people are always nice or want to do things for me. My fiancé is white so mom is worried that our future children would look white because that is the case so far for Somali women with my features.
I'm honestly glad that you covered this topic because I understand my situation better 💖🎀
The kids will look North Africans. 🥳 Ur creating more North Africans passing humans and less Horners.
That doesn't just apply to people with aquiline features but most horn Africans in general. It's due to the paleolithic admixture, it means mixing with non-Africans results in more non-African related phenotype
@@alimo3011
I don't know the wonderful thing about that
@@NoRockinMansLandNo. Its because some of those features are already shared so it washes out.
@@thezu9250 your comment doesn't contradict mine
We horners are beautiful regardless of color. We’ve never had a colorism issue. Our feature are African as well. White people and Arabs got their features from us because we came first.
East Africans looks alike I am Eritrean , but my sisters from Kenya, Somali, Sudan Uganda and Rwandan Tanzania and Burundi and yes it’s annoying when ppl fetishized! I also lie when people ask me where I am from.
@rediettadesse2828 Yes, Eritrean and Ethiopian have the same DNA. But the Eritrean don't want to admit that 😅
@@Lemlem7682 They fought against y'all the whole 30 years for what? To admit to claim the same people the same people did not want them to become an independent? I wouldn't claim neither.
@Cici_mimi Yes, they fought us, but they are running back to Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and now we have more than a million Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia 🇪🇹
@@Lemlem7682 Fix your whole tribal issue first. Seriously why is Ethiopia in such turmoil these day. Never a day without conflict between Tigray, Amhara or Oromo.
@keshi5541 It's because of you Eritreans, if Ethiopia 🇪🇹 would deport all Eritreans out of Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and shut down the border between Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Eritrean until then. Ethiopia 🇪🇹 always would have turmoil..
I am Somali and I remember blck Caribbean Canadian girls literally being grossed out I was “just” African and not mixed. It was so bizarre as I didnt quite understand/know as much about all this background. Here I thought they were just complimenting my hair style and clothing. The girls from the Caribbean were notorious at the time for absolutely HATING Somali girls in our schools in Canada so I was genuinely excited to make “blck” friends in University. Looking back, they were the absolute worst to me in high school too. They would literally go out of their way to be mean and I went to “good” schools. A lot of Somali people are very pro-African so it was jarring to see this animosity. But I am older so African was not a good title. Now they want to embrace it but just certain parts. Totally bizarro-land especially when I travel to the US.
Edit - One of the most awesome chicks I met was Caribbean Canadian. She was excited she wasnt the only blck person in our professional program. So there are awesome people out there and I wish we could all just grow together.
Caribbean Canadian were absolutely terrible to us Somalis 😢 heard it was the same in London
@@jasmineali5699very rude group of people especially jamaicans
@@jasmineali5699 because of jealously?
@@LakshaDeirwa They were the first major black immigrants in Canada and East Africans came 20/30 years later. I think they didn’t like us because we had our own identity and that we were very different from that. I noticed UABP don’t like it when you don’t claim black as your only identity.
OMG! I’m glad I’m not the only one that experiences this. I have had multiple Ethiopian people assume that I’m Ethiopian. Sure enough my uncle and his wife adopted a little girl from Ethiopia and people think she is my little sister 🤦🏽♀️ lol
Oh, I learn something new every day. Didn’t realise I was East Africa phenotype. Just knew Ethiopian’s talk to me in their language and seek me out if they see me, when I start a job, on the bus etc. Been told by a woman ‘I’d love to take you and your husband to Ethiopia- everyone looks like you!’ 😂 I think I look Somalian; the kids look exactly like how my sister and I look like as kids. Yes, and lucky me, I’m extremely beautiful. I look like a cross between Iman and Naomi Campbell, but lighter. Thanks for the info.
right, i knew they had a distinct look but yeah. me and my brother get mistaken as "habesha" all the time. for the longest time both of us were like what is a habesha is that an african tribe? then one day i finally looked it up lol
@@ExoticalsUnited I’m gonna look it up 👍🏽
@@ExoticalsUnitedNot a tribe but an ethno-linguistic group. Since there are multiple tribes that are habesha that each tend to look different from each other.
Alot of us in horn africans dont consider ourselves black we dont even look like them is just sad for them to view us as their beauty standard it would be like us looking at bantu people as our beauty standard. Black America people know who is black and who's biracial or mixed they are just unhappy with how their own people look they will tell dominicans biracials all the unambiguous looking people with different features and phenotypes force them to identify as black.
Yes I’ve noticed you guys look NOTHING alike (which is fine) and in the U.S. there’s an obsession over you guys. How do I know? Because me and my brother have been mistaken for habesha Ethiopian multiple times 😂 the unambiguous African American community loves using your phenotypes as the darker skinned standard of beauty
Speak for yourself i am somali and black before and after
@@doctor66930YOU 🫵 speak for yourself!
@@doctor66930 I speak for the 99%
@@gem5723No. A lot of the older disinterest in the term “blck” comes from East Africans seeing it as colonial brainwashing. Literally in a “how dare they tell us what we are and erase our ancient identities”.
jay-z looks like he’s from the central region of africa imo
He does not
For real, he'd fit in the great lakes region too.
@@eenchantress5113 you must not be african maybe ?
@@1wun1 ikr !
More like Nigerian
I don't think the information regarding east African phenotype is strictly true, as I'm pretty sure east Africans have slimmer noses because they are closer to the deserts. West African the opposite. I could be wrong.
Also, I have full features brown skin but people think I'm mixed with asian or that I'm east African And in my experience, it'smainly my own black people to tell me that I'm not fully black because of whatever special reason 🫠. Though I have had East Africans mistake me for them.
I'm British Jamaican btw x
Another READ others were afraid to do!!! Thank you!
Love your channel didn’t even know what somilan was until recently some lady stopped me and ask was I India then if I was somilan and I’m like lady leave me alone so I look at them and was like ok she just called me pretty lol …. But when I went out people were like you look like Halima Aden so I felt proud to get compliments for once instead of weird stares lol 😅 anywhooooo somilan women are peak beauty and so are Indian women like chefs kiss 😘 I feel great because growing people were like what r u and it hurt my feelings lol I would be like I’m black like you and more nasty crazy stuff that if I wrote I would probably cry lol anywhoo to my ladies with a beautiful face great body stay safe because jealousy is real ❤❤❤!!!!
I’m East African (Tanzanian) and my grand mother comes from a looong line of Omani people who colonised my country.
I’ve had friends and people wonder where exactly I’m from in every country I’ve visited. They can’t pinpoint “what” I look like. Some even deny that I’m African.
I’m half tanzanian and come from Yemen and omani back ground and people think of me as exotic in a way cause I have dark skin and mid loose tight curls
@@rediettadesse2828 and what else??
@@rediettadesse2828 what are we mixed with
@@rediettadesse2828 oh okay thank you
Can someone tell me what’s the difference between Northwest African and North African in terms to genetics and phenotypes? Also, could someone tell me the difference between East Africans and Northwest Africans in terms of genetics and appearances? Thanks
I have had an Ethiopian man ask if I were and I look NOTHING like them. I'm half Lakota and half Gullah/ Geechee of Woodabe descent. But yeah I don't look like them and never understood anyone mistaking me for one. I think just being beautiful while black sometimes makes people want to categorize you even when you look nothing like someone.
@@rediettadesse2828 I could see how a lay person would think so tbh. But not an actual Ethiopian. I see some similar features, but Africa is more genetically diverse unto itself than any two people from different continents. I think there are distinct differences when you really look at different groups. I think we really dont leave room for how diverse African countries are due to how slavery blinded us to a lot of other African features. They arent less black looking any more than an Indian is less Asian looking. They are from Africa, and that entails looking different just like anywhere else.
@@SharonBoo0305 but see, based off your photos it makes way more sense. For me I appreciate the compliment, but I definitely throw off more Blasian vibes if anything.
Well that Fulani is probably what the are mistaking as east african
I’m a dark skinned woman who often gets mistaken for being Habesha because of my looser hair texture and smaller features. I get accused of being privileged all the time. I never understood why other dark skinned women and girls did not like me because I assumed we were the same. According to them, we’re not. It’s really sad.
This is such an interesting topic! Thank you so much for addressing it. Yes. It is featurism with colorism on display when it comes to this issue. I have NO DNA from East Africa or the Arab world. Due to the way my very mixed DNA (14 different ethnic groups worldwide) expressed itself, I have the general look you are describing here.
My general DNA breakdown includes 70% West African and 30% European.
MANY people think I am either Ethiopian or Trinidadian. Ive had to literally argue with people from those countries who INSIST I am from their country. Kinda crazy. Beauty can be and is found in ALL people. Attitudes make a big difference in expression of beauty.
And Yes! I have received shade and hate from Black people who have more solid West African features and hair texture, as well as from White women who feel like my look challenges the privilege that their beauty standard comes with. They usually want to peg me as being beautiful but stupid. It enrages them even further that I am kind, full of empathy and academically/professionally accomplished . The pain of being judged made me go inward, seek self acceptance and work hard to be the best version of myself.
Their Middle Eastern influence is always ignored.
Thank you! They have DEFINITE middle eastern influence.
@@cutiepiea3687 that's what we meant.
we’re not mixed sis we’re native to east africa
As an Eritrean I can tell you based on me DNA results, I’m 100% black 🤷🏽♀️ yall just have to get over the fact that some black people can look this way without being mixed.
@@3ritr3anCuti3 East Africans are the oldest race of humans. Arabs actually evolved from THEM. Same with Asians. They evolved from Afro Asiatic tribes who initially had dark skin and coily hair like the Khoisan people
I'm constantly mistaken for east African eventho I'm mgm west African and European. I also use to have uabw tell me my nose was too small and literally tried to shame me for having a small nose in high-school but now today they turn around and contour the heck outta their noses.
Ive always thought Sasha and Malia Obama are beautiful exoticals.
Yup ! They are 😍
Obama kids look very kenyan/somali
It's Michelle Obama who has strong East African features despite not being East African@@BantuNiLo
Obama is kenyan
@twilight14971
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I am African American. Since I was young I was referred to as an exotic looking black girl. My mom is dark brown and my dad is light brown. The way their genes came together to create me I am always told that I look mainly Somali or Ethiopian sometime Caribbean. I also have long thick hair because I take care of my hair. When I was relaxed my hair was long and thick and now that I’m natural when I wear my hair down in a silk press no one believe ls that I am African American. I took a DNA test and of course my maternal haplogroup had confirmed that my female ancestors originate from the Horn of Africa. Its apparent in my nose, eyes, and lips shape as well.I also get sooo much unwanted attention, jealousy, and pure hate when I wear my hair down. I rarely wear it down anymore but ill get back to it.
I am tired of explaining this to y'all - if you are "African American" but look like you are from the Horn of Africa - you have WHITE ANCESTRY. It's in your BLOOD. That's why people confuse you for Somalians and Eritreans and Ethiopians. You are NOT pure black.
I have their phentype. Type 3 hair w 4a and upturned large eyes. Im often told i look mixed/ arab, egyptian, hawaiian and bunch of other nonsense 😂
As someone whose material lines originate in the Horn of Africa, thanks for addressing this.
Every ethnicity is a multinational generation we Somalis our features were the same for the last million years i hate when people try to say we are mix and their have the pure blood line like we are polluted or something
Can someone tell me what’s the difference between Northwest African and North African in terms to genetics and phenotypes? Also, could someone tell me the difference between East Africans and Northwest Africans in terms of genetics and appearances? Thanks
I'm not mixed I'm pure somali 😂😂
I’m so glad you talked about this. I’ve always realized that Black African people look different than Black Americans but didn’t realize the exact phenotypes until you mentioned it. I kid you not almost every Ethiopian person I have met has mistaken me as Ethiopian. I’m not sure exactly what it is though because I don’t think my features are as keen as there’s but yet I don’t think they’re as prominent as West African.
Same, I never thought my features were as keen as theirs either, but I’ve noticed the beauty standard in the African American community in terms of facial features for dark skinned women is often the East African phenotype
@@ExoticalsUnited exactly. But then call us the colorists, texturists, etc 😂. I’ve also noticed people mistake me for being mixed sometimes. I’m kind of curious. I might just do an ancestry test.
I did 23 and me and I was shocked I had eat African ancestry but the highest percentage is Nigerian@@lauren1937
Once I moved to Atlanta GA, I constantly got mistaken for being East African. It got to the point that I questioned my family's appearance, and damn if we don't look East African LMFAO I always just considered I look like average light skinned Black American
Fulani girlies be getting this too lol
There are many west Africans who had pointed nose, like myself,loose curly, light skin and small lips. We are all beautiful and unique people ❤️
I am from Kenya East Africa region but we have diversity we have tribes that looks like these women in Ethiopia and they are considered the most beautiful here as well. We have to admit those Ethiopian girls are beautiful and they are so proud of their African heritage ❤❤
I noticed this as well because East African/horn of Africa features are basically European or mixed raced features. I been waiting for you to cover this topic ever since you mentioned the obsession of East African features (in passing) a couple of videos back. Nice.
Thanks for watching ! and yes , I get mistaken for East African myself
Please don't confuse original African features with the Europeans 😭😭
@@jzmnmrh0009 Your statement doesn't take into account certain things like intermixing with other cultures that shaped human evolution over time.
One prevailing theory suggests that all life originated in Africa and then spread to different parts of the world, with features evolving in response to various environmental pressures. For instance, Europeans may have developed thinner noses as an adaptation to colder climates, while West Africans may have wider noses to aid in cooling in hotter climates.
However, human evolution is not a straightforward process. It's influenced by a multitude of factors, including genetic diversity, environmental changes, and cultural interactions. For example, while African populations may have had certain original features, migration and intermixing with other groups, such as Arabs, over time could have influenced their physical traits which is why see that Somalians, East Africa including countries like Morocco, etc all have aquiline features which are different from West Africa.
Overtime certain features have become associated with certain groups for example when we think of aquiline features we think of Europeans, (and yes European can have bigger noses but like Exotical United stated the exceptions is not the rule) or mixed race person, we don't think of Africans having those type of noses unless they are from East Africa - so statement is not quite true because it doesn't take into account evolution based on the environment and intermixing with other cultures. Let consider East Africa, where the environment is similar to West Africa both are hot, etc but the people of West Africa don't typically have aquiline noses. This difference can be attributed to historical interactions, such as the influence of Arab populations in East Africa so your statement doesn't hold true.
Not all od them are mix tho majority are native africans @@abbysands9510
Not it isn’t a mixed race features. Obama is mixed race. Drake(he did a 👃 surgery) and etc.
I had an East African friend once in high school and she was super pretty, this was only a few years ago. But a UABW tried to assault my friend accusing her of not being “black enough” and making fun of her East African features, but funny enough a few years later I see that this same girl is lying about being mixed with Ethiopian and photoshopping her pictures to look racially ambiguous. I’m a UABW myself but half of my family is from Belize (garifuna) so we’re all pretty mixed up (except myself bc I don’t have any known mixture) but I notice a lot of UABW obsess over my features, they don’t assume I’m mixed because my skin is darker and my hair is tightly coiled, but they see that I don’t look exactly like them, even though I’m fully black as far as I know.
UABW in particular are very obsessed with slimmer, less harsh facial features and being “mixed” with something.
yes omg!
Omg EU! Same here! I have similar experiences to you, on a few occasions I have been mistaken for Cushitic/Ethiopian when walking around in the city centre of a town in the UK. I remember one time I was on a bus listening to music, a man behind me tapped my shoulder and started speaking another language, I told him that I didn't understand what he said, he said that he thought I was from an East African/Horn African country (I can't remember which country he mentioned). I was born in Jamaica but I moved to the UK with my family from a very young age. I get called 'coolie' (I have curly hair that would be a type 3 I guess - saying that, my hair strands are a mixture of wavy, curly, and there are some coils too - it is quite a mixed bag, lol) by my Mum and she has made comments that I look like I am Ethiopian/Somalian because I have a high forehead like a lot of them do.
I ‘m One! Love Being East Afrikan Girl!
The beauty of the East Woman is based on their Rome prominent foreheads and narrow jaws both features this creating a balanced face where the eyes and nose sit in the middle of the face, while the beauty of the West African woman is based on their wider pelvic area. The forehead of the West African is vertically narrow, thus the eyes and nose seem to be in the higher half of the face, and their jaws are strong, which give more volume to the bottom of the face while the upper half.of their face seems less prominent!
THIS is definitely an obsession.
I did my DNA test on Ancestry and got 49% Nigerian amongst other west African countries and the Nigerians here in the U.S. often think I’m a fellow Nigerian.
Yes, obsession/fetishization and antagonization! I've had people literally tell me they thought I was a bitch because I'm ethiopian or they thought I was mean cause they thought all ethiopians are mean. I'm always taken aback and thrown off when I hear it LOL
I’m mgm and fenty 360. I always get mistaken for East African or Dominican. I’m always mistaken for being anything but American. My mom is from South Africa but she is Coloured.
Dark skinned woman answering the light skinned question - I've yet to come across an Ethiopian who doesn't ask if I'm from there. The last time it happened, the guy doubled down by asking where my parents were born. The funniest incident was when a greeting was used on me. That lady explained to me that she thought I was ignoring her and denying my heritage the way some do when they become "Americanized." 🥴
Omg same ! Some people were greeting me in other languages, it wasn’t until my friend mentioned they were Ethiopian that I realized they were mistaking me for them
Damnn, I’m East African (Somali) and you really do look super Ethiopian 😮
@@IkWeetHetOprechtNietwhat is super ethiopian?
Omg I’ve been mistaken for East African too (I’ve heard Eritrean, Ethiopian, Habesha), that’s probably what I get mistaken the most for besides Caribbean latino or b&w. It’s very clear that the black community has an obsession with East Africans, they are always arguing over whether they are black or not. African Americans try so hard to claim them.
I'm not black. But I thoroughly enjoy your videos.
Yay! Thanks for watching!
Very interesting I actually have a lot of East African admixture including Kenyan and Somali
@@JamzYamz7 chile ion know i just have to add my 2 cents because people think all African Americans are just West African when I’m over her 14 % Kenyan 2% Somali and strangely enough 2% North African as well 🤭
@@jafarrih those results are probably inaccurate. What dna testing service did you use?
@@AB-im6de it’s called “My Heritage” and why would my dna be weird or inaccurate black Americans don’t even know where they come from slav3s weren’t just brought from West African and its many different possibilities im not that old the East African could have got mixed in by an East African immigrant in more modern times even a long time after and might have not even been a slav3 12.5 dna is your great grand parent so my great grand dad could of been full Kenyan immigrant i never met him
I cannot wait until this becomes viral … I cannot wait until this frank conversation becomes a thing.. this is so real
Yes! This channel is growing every single day and it WILL be a mainstream conversation very soon. We’re not going anywhere and this is an entire niche at this point, with similar channels popping up all over the place . We are not going to remain silent anymore and we are no longer afraid of other peoples opinions .
I’m multi generationally mixed( mom: black, white-Canadian french, Cherokee, Cuban, and Cameroonian, )
My dad Caribbean, west African and Blackfoot .
I’m from Nigeria but Fulani so my facial structure is more like the East African with type 4 hair. People seem to have a problem with my long hair. They would believe I’m Chinese before they believe I’m just a typical North Nigerian.😂
Thank you for your honesty.
Next Topic Housewives of Potomac
The colorism on that show? The way the dsbw always make snarky comments abt the MLS women’s appearance on the show like every other episode? Then forcing Katie to identify as fully black when her dad is white, Robyn and Giselle denying their MGM identity and acting disgusted about it. We should talk abt all that
@@zaneconner-g3r -oop! All of it!
Just came across this video and as a Somali guy I can assure you, Somalis are NOT mixed but have an ancient DNA that predates Arabs or others. Remember, it was the ancient Somalis and other Horn of Africans who populated the rest of the world specially the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. This means they have our features not the other way around.
Hope that clarifies some misconceptions. Hope you have a great day/night. Take care
The people who populated the rest of the world were archaic ancient hominids, not any modern groups.
I'm a dark skinned woman with "pointed" features. My birth parents are Black American amd I inherited a blend of their phenotype. Your video is spot on. White people have boldly told me I don’t look like the "average Black girl" and many Black people have said I don't understand certain things bc I'm not "Black black." It's crazy. I am VERY proud to be a dark skinned Black American woman and wouldn't have it any other way....but sometimes in the back of my mind and heart, I still don't feel accepted. I thought that was something only biracial people dealt with but it's true for "straight/pointed" featured folks as well -at least in my experience.
yes theyre exotifying you because of your features
Very accurate am a darker skinned woman from East Africa, Kenya, you are right. I have experienced colourism when l was younger.
@@StopTheLiessthey weren’t crying? Chill out they were just sharing a experience
And what gave you the impression that l was in the slightest bid stressed? Are you OK? Aren't we all sharing our experiences!
People always ask if I’m Ethiopian or if I’m East African and it would be like they expected me to feel flattered. Makes sense now
Sis u hit the nail with this video 👏 i agree with everything u said. I especially like the part where u said that the facial features and hair texture play a part in how their skin tone is perceived or something like that. Same applies to me in a sense that my multigenerational admixture is a huge part of my identity in terms of my looks, features, mannerisms and how I'm treated and seen by others.
If i was just unambiguous monoracial and was just fully black i wouldn't look or act the way i do so im so sick and tired of unambiguous black ppl always tryna tell me im just full black🤦🏾♀️ .
Also another point i wanna make is that for East Africans like myself who are from Uganda, kenya and Tanzania get treated the same way exotical darkskins get treated by unambiguous darkskins because we set the beauty standard for unambiguous black people as we don't necessarily 100% look like Horn of Africa East africans ( somalis, Djibouti, Ethiopians) but we don't look like unambiguous west Africans either this is because in my country Uganda a very long time ago something called the Bantu Migration happened and West Africans moved into other parts of africa including the East African countries of Uganda, south sudan etc which madd us have some west african features etc.
Please look up an influencer called Liyah Mai she's the perfect example of the typical east african look and if i wasn't 26% percent Nigerian and a little bit Central African i would 100% look like her
Srry for my rant 😂😂
I loved this video sis and u rlly are like a therapist for all of us. Stay blessed exoticals united 💕
Please check your facts . Bantus came from the south and not from the west. Its literally the other way. Bantus are from the southern region that migrated to central and east and touched on some parts of west africa. A big chunk of west africans don‘t even speak bantu languages like huh? Also google tanzanians and congolese people. They literally look the same except the arab tanzanians . Kenyans are very diverse looking, i wouldn’t say that the majority look like exoticals . I personally cant tell ghanians and Ugandans apart. With that being said. Beautiful women are all over africa
@@fj8992 Bro The Bantu people are believed to have originated from the region of present-day Nigeria and Cameroon in 'West Africa'. Don't tell me to check my facts that are already facts and check urself. And they don't have to speak bantu especially because they migrated and spread across a large portion of sub-Saharan Africa, influencing the linguistic and cultural landscape of the region. Its the same way Jesus was jew and later on his teachings created Christianity. They didn't need to be Jew or speak Hebrew. Also i was speaking for most East africans and Congo is not an East african country. Obviously it doesn't apply to every single East africans just majority. If that wasn't the case then ppl wouldnt differentiate between east africans and west. Also Tanzanian ppl looking like congolese got nothing to do with them not being East African and possibly mutligenerationally mixed which is why i then talked about the bantu migration and how it affected the way some East africans look. Also with the kenyans being diverse that applies to every other country in the world. They won't alll look the same and fit the typical look. And I've been to kenya numerous times and have seen that alot of them look like East Africans in a sense that their heads are more narrow and they have more keen features again doesn't apply to every single individual but it applies to most. And yh there are some ghanaians and Ugandans that look similar but once again the majority don't and thats why theres a difference between us. And to conclude i never mentioned anything about other african countries not having beautiful women.
I feel like u were tryna prove something out of what i said when u just repeated my statement in a way where it suited u. Please dont tell me to check my facts ik wtf im tlaking about and u were rlly generalosing everything i said when i clearly stated it doesn't apply to every single individual just the majority.
@@fj8992
The origin of Bantu is still debated, but central African, great lakes and east African Bantu have a 1000 years longer history than Southern Africa Bantu. West Africans have more variety of niger-congo languages while Bantu is a tiny piece, that's why Bantu is suspected to be a branch off.
The farther away from nilotes and cushitic the more east Africans look like other Niger-congo speaking people in West and Southern Africa.
A very interesting topic, following and learning from Namibia. We in Southern Africa have very interesting but diverse appearances. Maybe what i can remember from growing up, is that your skin tone did not really translate to how you experience life in our society. for example Namibia has people of typical Bantu origin in the north, and Khoi tribes in the central and South of the country. Here if you are from a mixed background, it is acknowledged, but people identify more with their cultural upbringing. I should also bring to the fore that, with the influence of hip hop (video vixen looks being popularised here as well), there is a wave of colorism and texture - ism in the arts industry and social media influencers culture. Denial of realities will not help us, the sooner we accept how deep our disdain for self goes, the sooner we can address it, and also deal with it. We should also start defining our own currency, and not be so eager to accept other people's defaults as our defaults too. for example, loose hair textures, light skin, narrow facial features etc. is other people's defaults, for us it is the exceptions.
Im a dsbw with a small nose chin and lips. I have been asked if i am east African but I am not. I am American… but I have a certain look that gets me stares and questions. I have loose curls and waves too. Blacks pedastalize my features but also hate me for them. They like to put my into blackness when they wanna humble me but if a man is staring at me and compliments me all of a sudden its ONLY BECAUSE I HAVE A CERTAIN LOOK…. i guess my blackness depends on their mood even tho I am clearly dark skin like natural niecy .. she’s a UA-camr… skin color. Love the vid hun and keep it up
Thanks alot for this video. I am partially East african myself along with some Sudanese. The thing with Somali and Ethiopians, as far as I know, is that they’re not mixed. They are just closer to European and Arabs genetically and fall under the group called “Afro-asiatics” same for Northern African people. The Narrow phenotype all across the world came from their ancestors probably from then thousands of years ago.
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There is a people in West-Africa called the Fulani they’re speculated to be Amazigh, or even of ancient East-African decent. But they are a 100% mgm though and you could find them scattered around in 15 different countries. They also come with light skin and “keen” features and do not look like the average Nigerian. Very interesting subject to do some research on.
That isn't true....even fulani have admixture and Ethiopians somalis and Eritreans have admixture. There are detailed DNA studies on this.
@@KushQueen9 you mind to source your studies???
@@lazairance Go read an article called 'Eurasian backflow', you can even see the admixture percentages, they are all mixed up.
@@gamalnassertv thanks I’ll go see that.
I get asked if I'm Ethiopian all the time so much I can't wait to do my ancestry.
I never said you were apart of the transatlantic slave trade. How would I know I'm not claiming to be they come up to me asking me and talking to me. So apparently they claiming me. I'm a keep it cute I suggest you do the same.
@tineshiabobbitt62 Ethiopian have been coming to America since the 1800 as a diploma, so you never know..
@Lemlem7682 ur right
We all know that I'm not claiming to be
Ooooh yes now!
Ex UA-camrs Jamie&Nikki Perkins.
Nikki and her sister got modelling gigs because of their hieght and East African features, even though I'm sure they are West African(Sudanese?).
Even her mixed girls look East African!.
They’re East African lol
South Sudan is in East Africa.
The language is Amharic or Tigrynia
aften asked if im Ethiopian. Now i know why. 😅😅
I'm a hairstylist and i do hair for a lot of east African women. I get mistaken for being east African a lot(specifically Ethiopian). They are genuinely surprised when i tell them I'm just American as far as i know lol. The people I've come across are pretty dope.
I’m not really mixed although I am 5% European(my father is Caribbean and my mother is west African) and my experiences have drastically changed since I started wearing my 3c hair out. I now I’ve got other bw asking me what I do to my hair or how they can get their hair like mine. And I feel like they’re side eyeing me when I say it’s my natural hair. My mother is also super pro black and she’s 100% west African(all the same ethnic group) which is pretty rare. So I feel a bit of shame when I wear my natural hair and I feel guilty that I think I look better with hair out than in styles that hide my hair. And I used to think that my mother’s pro black cause(one that she’s been neglecting me and my siblings to pursue mind you) was worthy and that she really wanted change, but it’s really just an ego preservation tactic. Turns out she’s just an undiagnosed narcissist, because this woman who has had locs my whole life(I’m 22) bought a curly puff to mimic my hair texture and it shook me to my core.
Wtf
Ufff i cant wait till you do the afrolatina one. By the way many of us look East African (to people who are not East African) jajajaja 😂😂😂❤
Yes ! 😍
I'm in Colombia right now doing research on anti-black racism across the country historically and across current contemporary life. An afrodescendent activist told me very recently that there is a deep caste system based on racial phenotype in the country which has been entrenched within the structure of the society since slavery just like most other Latín American societies. Any Afro-descendent Latín American who may present with similar colouring or hair texture as some populations in the horn of Africa are just mixed with indigenous blood since these community's literally live side by side in particular regions and have experienced similar level of land dispossession and genocidal racial violence.
I think Colombia's first Afrodescendent black vice president Francia Marquez Mina is one of the most inspirational afro-latina women in modern times.
However since this channel does not seem to attract the most intellectually astute following I imagine this would be a subject too complex and, deep for the middle aged channel owner and her pretty ugly followers to grasp. All of the people who follow and comment on this channel have no idea how profoundly damaging this content is for the image of mixed and lighter complexioned people across the world. It is a gigantic act of self harm you inflict on yourselves, but I am in favor of you exposing your truest feelings so that we can all clearly understand what you really think and believe. Please do keep speaking up and revealing the deepest darkest ugliest side of the collective mixed race/light skinned psyche. From where I stand it it just appears as an endless stream of fascist tragi-comedy. América really isn't doing well and most intelligent people outside the US objectively think it is a country with some of the dumbest people in the world.
0:23 the Afro Latino phenotype is definitely obsessed over too 😂 I can never stop hearing “ Spanish this Spanish that”.
I’m Soulaan/African American from Tampa Florida. (Soulaan just means African American or Black American.) I always knew that of course I have family and ancestors from America after the slave trade, but I’ve always questioned my identity of where I actually came from Ancestrally. I’ve been told that I’m an American Indian, I’m a Hebrew Israelite, I’m Afro Asiatic, Original Black Asians, I’m the Original Arab and so on, but it didn’t really occur to me until I did my research.. So I’ve taken DNA tests to find that out, and I’m mixed with mostly West, South, Central and low amounts of East and North (Sudan) African. And of course I have the other continental admixtures like Europe and Indigenous American North.
Now for the tribes that I’ve descended from in West Africa and other parts, we are super mixed w/ so many tribes as AA’s. But as far as I know, I descended from the Fulani and Yoruba Paternally. And Mandinka and so on with other tribes down the line. That’s why we have the phenotypes we do, especially sense we are mixed with other racial groups.
Now enough of my blabbering of genetics, there was this time I was at a bus stop. And this Oromo (Ethiopian) Woman came up to me, and she asked “Hey are you Ethiopian?” I answered “Nah, I’m African American, but ancestrally I came from the Fulani and Yoruba” and we had a conversation just talking about stuff, getting to know one another. She was talking to me into Christianity, but I told her I was Semi Muslim so many times. 😂 She told me that she thought that I was Ethiopian because of my features, but this is due to my ancestral admixture of course. But if I were to say how many times I was mistaken for an Ethiopian or other East Africans, I would say a lot.
But other than that, everything you said in this video is absolutely spot on. I’ve been looking into genetics, history and phenotypes for a good while now. And as a Soulaan, I’m proud to know more about my Soulaan ancestors and also my Ancestral African roots as well. It really changed my perspective on myself and everyone, because I used to go through self hate and identity crises growing up and hate my own group because of the things I’d see on TV.
I always get asked by East Africans if I’m also East African. I remember a yt man asked if I was Ethiopian 🤭 yaass I have been called Habasha 😂 I guess because I’m mixed that’s why. India and Malaysia is not too far from East Africa so yesss of course they look similar .
Also very good video. It certainly is this way for many people. Strange, and sad ... ideas about how to place beauty for people of African related ancestry. Or ...am I correct in trying to identify people this way?
Yes i have been mistaken for Somali or Ethiopian
But i kinda understand why because my dad is a Egyptian Arab and mom is a American black
@Allah_Loves_Forgives_and_Saves yes I know I don't look Somali or Ethiopian at all true
@Allah_Loves_Forgives_and_Saves but Somali are Arab in know some say there are so Arabs are Arab you don't think Somali look like Arabs
@@runmedeep
As a Yemeni man which being to somalia
Many somalis just pretend superior to others I know somali tribe which burn a house of their daughters husband in which they were asleep and it was 1st night and they both die I saw at same time many indians and Yemeni men getting married to somali women(sorry for my bad English)
There no mix. Somalis are homogeneous. We can be dark as south Sudanese but with 3a hair.
Can someone tell me what’s the difference between Northwest African and North African in terms to genetics and phenotypes? Also, could someone tell me the difference between East Africans and Northwest Africans in terms of genetics and appearances? Thanks
I good start on your research is searching for “ Cushitic people (Horn of Africa) and Berber/Amazigh ( North Africans)
Northwest Africans are Berbers/Amazigh/Maghrebis (Morocco, Western Sahara Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Northern Mauritania and Northern Mali), Northeast Africans are Egyptians (Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt).
Genetic breakdown of their main ancient components:
Maghreb: 40% Anatolian Farmer (EEF), 35% Iberomarusian, 15% Levant Natufian, 10% Basal West African
Egypt: 45% Levant Natufian, 20% Iran Neolithic, 20% Anatolian Farmer (EEF), 15% Ancestral East African
Horn of Africa: 50% Ancestral East African, 40% Levant Natufian, 5% Iran Neolithic, 5% Mota (Ethiopian Hunter Gatherer)
Overall, North Africans are around 80% West Asian on average, while Horn of Africans 40-50%.
As a Dark Skinned UABW you just answered a LIFELONG question I’ve had cause East African/African/Jamaican people often mistake me as them only AFTER praising my beauty and I always got offended cause it made it seem like beautiful black women don’t exist without crediting something outside of America or outside of my race.
I have a slim nose, full head of natural hair (you’d be surprised how many people think that’s rare and credits me to being mixed because of it - the ignorance.) and slim lips, slender build. I never knew that was the phenotype over there. I don’t pay attention to Africa as an American and I see mixed people as mixed so I don’t compare myself to them either. Wow this really opened my eyes.
But yes, I do have this phenotype and though you say it is the “exception” to the rule it’s a hard place cause I don’t feel like an exception. I feel black. I’m okay with being considered black. So it hurts in that sense that people see me as ‘other’.
I am a Nigerian by Nigerian parents and yet people tell me all the time that I look like someone from East Africa because of my facial features.
Maybe you are hausa or Fulani! They tend to look East African
Ethiopian people ALWAYS ask if I’m from their country, even after explaining my native/black American genetics they still will cock their head in disbelief. I take it as a compliment absolutely.. funny thing is 23andMe says I’m Nigerian(dads side) and I look like my dad🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
Amharic language?? Or was it another??
11:30 spot on ! that's pretty interesting
Because of the country and province I'm located in, people often think I'm hatien (because I speak french), because there are also many mixtures in Haïti. People often think I'm Brazilian or Dominican, or cuban. I look like an island girl 😂 but I've only seen/experienced a real beach once, that's the funny part.
The language must’ve been Amharic :)
Yes, overall we have maybe 95 languages. Our main languages being Amharic, Tigrinya, and Arabic etc.
@@RiriLove88 Im from sudan! I grew up with Ethiopians so yeah I know … 😇
@@TheKimzer Aww I love Sudanese people. I was born in Sudan but came to the U.S at the age of 3. I speak Arabic as well. I don’t remember much about it, it’s black and white. The little I do remember were good memories. I love Shahi, and Arab food as well as Arab music and I believe it’s the influence I had from the Sudan culture. My parents loved living there. My dad (who has already passed on) said some of his best memories were there. The people, the food, the culture, everything ❤️🇸🇩🇪🇹
@@StopTheLiess Arabic is considered one of the Ethiopian languages. Yes Oromo is one of the languages, I simply didn’t mention it. That’s why I said “etc.” meaning there are other languages. Overall there are 95 languages spoken within Ethiopia as I said.
@@rediettadesse2828 Do your own research. It’s definitely not 10. Do you know how many different ethnic groups there are within Ethiopia? And you think we only have 10 languages. Google is free.
I'm Dark skinned with a Habesha surname from E-Africa. My experiences is mostly from West Africans phenotype looking people who usually quiz my name and features so much so that it propelled me to explain my background. Something I typically kept to myself, since the biggest group around me look similar. So none of my features stood out. The Features of my Parternal Grand-Dad's sisters give it away too. Two of my siblings are somewhat, 'yellow looking.' Well, we are from a Part Ham-Nilo group, its expected. As in the five tribes in Africa, Hamite, Half-hamite, Nilotic, Bantu, San people and Europeans/ and Asians settlers. I think anything different is intriguing to others and soon after questions follow.