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vincent

vincent

Grumpy Old Man
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Moderator - World Affairs
Africablack said:
Kind of like how people group Africans into one group, even in casual conversation African countries are rarely mentioned. I always laugh at the silliness of it. A Black American artist recent went on social media to complain that modeling agencies like to hire models who look "really African". He was dragged for that comment, what he was meant was that these modelling agencies like the East African look specifically a sub group of Nilotic peoples from South Sudan. Folks think that just because people from the Horn (Ethiopian, Somalis, etc.) look different to Bantus then they must be "mixed", I correct that fallacy and tell them they are native Africans, as if the second largest continent can't be as diverse as everywhere else.
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I like the look of Ethiopians.
 
Bellum_Romanum

Bellum_Romanum

Brigadier
Registered Member
resistance said:
What are Russia doing?
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1954276229575815381
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Same as they have always done in its entire history; act brutish lacking in elegance or sophistication and assume that they're the only big dog that has the big stick.

Be that as it may, China can't allow Russia to lose against NATO backed Ukraine - even if the Russian invasion goes against one of China's core principles of anti-expansionism. I never liked the Russians then, will never like them for as long as they exhibit their Ork like mentality.
 
FriedRiceNSpice

FriedRiceNSpice

Major
Africablack said:
Folks think that just because people from the Horn (Ethiopian, Somalis, etc.) look different to Bantus then they must be "mixed", I correct that fallacy and tell them they are native Africans, as if the second largest continent can't be as diverse as everywhere else
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Aren't most of Ethiopians and many Somalians a mix of Nilotic and Arab ancestry? They speak Afro-Asiatic languages after all.
 
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