" :No, you don't get it. You attempted to use the census to classify the Somalis a certain way. I then explained to you that the census is based on self-assigned ethnicity, and even quoted for you the relevant passages from the census people indicating this. That logically should have been the end of the discussion. Instead, for some reason known only to you, you chose to press the issue, suggesting against all evidence and history that Somalis classify themselves as such. And now you're arguing that they are lumped in with Blacks ""by other people"". Actually, throughout the overwhelming majority of their long history, Somalis were expressly differentiated from other groups in the Sub-Saharan
" :No, you don't get it. You attempted to use the census to classify the Somalis a certain way. I then explained to you that the census is based on self-assigned ethnicity, and even quoted for you the relevant passages from the census people indicating this. That logically should have been the end of the discussion. Instead, for some reason known only to you, you chose to press the issue, suggesting against all evidence and history that Somalis classify themselves as such. And now you're arguing that they are lumped in with Blacks ""by other people"". Actually, throughout the overwhelming majority of their long history, Somalis were expressly differentiated from other groups in the Sub-Saharan region