You often hear the new generation of Somalilanders disseminating terms such as "qadaad-weyn" and what not against other Somalis, particulary Southern Somalis. It is ironic that the ignorant description Richard Burton used to describe the people he saw in British Somaliland in the mid 1800s is being regurgitated and used against other Somalis.
In personal appearance the race is not unprepossessing (not particularly attractive or appealing to the eye). The crinal hair is hard and wiry, growing, like that of a half-caste West Indian, in stiff ringlets which sprout in tufts from the scalp, and, attaining a moderate length, which they rarely surpass, bang down. The jaw, however, is almost invariably prognathous and African; the broad, turned-out lips betray approximation to the Negro; and the chin projects to the detriment of the facial angle.