The Jaarso were probably outnumbered by the Oromo in their own towns and villages during that unfair referendum, but the result of the referendum does not change the fact that the Jaarso lost their Somali identity sometime ago due to inter-Somali tribalism. The Jaarso problem is the very real future facing the rest of the Somali people as an ethnic group. The clan animosity which has been going on for so long in our community and which shows no signs of change will eventually drive us apart and lead to each clan or group of clans becoming a nationality. Somaliland already followed the Jaarso and started the process of differentiation and divergence. Djibouti is today more French than Somali, the NFD, Baydhabo, and Jigjiga groups are not really that far behind; and eventually the HAG and D-blocks groups in Puntland and the South will agree to disagree and go their separate ways.