Do somalis/arabs have strong prejudice towards south Asians?

I thought it was common sense; anyone with two eyes and a mind to ponder could have deduced it as I have, no!? I do want to generalise that as a British Asian I'm more enclined to be more 'worldly', however I'm not sure if my fellow brownies would back me up by saying they deduced just as much... Would it be more excessive if I told you that I could (usually) successfully guess what language people were speaking/ writing in withought knowing more than a sentance in any other language or is this normal?

This is so right. I'm sick of people saying "he doesn't look Indian". There is no such thing as looking Indian. We have so many ethnic groups. I'm part of the Bengali ethnic group in East India. Next door we have Biharis. Down South there are Telegus, Kannadans, Tamils, Malayalis. To the west there are Marathis, Gujaratis and Punjabis. There are many more which I didn't mention. We all speak different languages too.

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Wait whaaaaaaat I guess i could do that same, but i cant tell the difference between a Nigerian and a Somalian.. but obviously i would be able to recognise a bengali, pakistani, indian etc from eachother.
Lets put that skill to the test then
What language is this;
''ami gumaytam farram na''

Wait whaaaaaaat I guess i could do that same, but i cant tell the difference between a Nigerian and a Somalian.. but obviously i would be able to recognise a bengali, pakistani, indian etc from eachother.
Lets put that skill to the test then
What language is this;
''ami gumaytam farram na''

That language is Assamese!

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LOL, what I meant was when it's written in its own alphabet or spoken allowed so I can hear the pronunciation and type of words used (irregardless of the accent) - doesn't make me an expert though, just know that tiny tiny bit more than the average joe who can't tell his Spanish from his French to his Italian or his Arabic to his Persian, or his Serbian to his Russian
*sigh*, at a guess the language comes from south asia. If it's not Hindi, I would guess either Tamil, Bengali or Telagu...

Maybe soon goreh will understand what it means to be Indian if we just call every single Briton a Welshman just to p*** them off

Shh you! i was supposed to test the other persons skills.
( Its sylheti )

Sylheti is very similar to Assamese. More similar than it is to Shudho Bhasha. They sound similar to me too, so I guessed right.

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I actually don't like to identify myself as Indian, even though I am. India was a country that was a line drawn on a map. My ethnic identity is Bengali, but one can only dream of the reunion of West Bengal and East Bengal(Bangladesh). There is no 'Bengali' option on the census form.

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West Africans are darker than Somalis and also Somalis do not have the 'typical black feature' of a broad (flat) nose - theirs are more pointed like a European. Arabs tend to have a much fairer skin tone than Pakistanis - obviously you have some exceptions such as dark Arabs and light skinned Pakistanis, but this is the general trend. From Pakistanis to Indians it becomes a lot harder - india is ethnically diverse. The dark indians live in the south (so they can be distinguished due to their skin) but the north (western) indians can't be distinguished from Pakistanis due to the proximity of the border and also due to coming from the same area... hope that helps - how can you not tell!?

Even i could do thatt

Its bengali,

Somali's and Ethiopians look very similar, usually more sharp noses and distinctive facial features. But yeah I'm not that great at guessing where people are from by looking at them either, never make assumptions.

Ok, so Somalians are dark skinned white people. I always assumed that they were darker than West Africans though!... Arggghhh this is going to take me ages to learn.

And whenever I try to guess where someone is from based on skin colour, I usually get it horribly wrong. There's this girl who I thought was Arab, and turns out she was Pakistani. Don't get me started on India or Africa - skin colours can range from coal black to Mariah Carey! And then there's the chances that the person in question is just mixed.

I can tell the difference in written dialects between French-Spanish-Italian-Arabic... but Persian Serbian Russian? How do you even?... *Guess I wasn't born to be geographically cultured. At least I can tell Chinese, Japanese and Malaysians apart?

I never said it to show off or anything - as I said, I thought it was common sense

Your test (obviously without checking anything) - distinguish which language is which:

أردت أن أقرأ كتابا عن تاريخ المرأة في فرنسا ample 1

بَرابَر پَیدا ہوئے ہَیں۔ اُنہیں ضَمیر اَور عَقل ample 2

می*آیند و حیثیت و حقوقشان با هم برابر است، همهٔ*شان ample 3

Who knows, you might secretly be able to read it without me knowing that you know

1. arabic.
2.urdu.
3. turkish? idk lool

I thought it was common sense; anyone with two eyes and a mind to ponder could have deduced it as I have, no!? I do want to generalise that as a British Asian I'm more enclined to be more 'worldly', however I'm not sure if my fellow brownies would back me up by saying they deduced just as much... Would it be more excessive if I told you that I could (usually) successfully guess what language people were speaking/ writing in withought knowing more than a sentance in any other language or is this normal?

Arabic
Urdu
Persian (Farsi)

On the whole, well done Note: Turks use latin script with various umlauts and some other accents...

Edit: My test post wasn't meant to have all those faces - damn auto smiley changed my text from : Sample to ample

Arabic
Urdu
Persian (Farsi)

On the whole, well done Note: Turks use latin script with various umlauts and some other accents...

Edit: My test post wasn't meant to have all those faces - damn auto smiley changed my text from : Sample to ample