Lool at the observation. Darood is the dominant clan of the Somali ethnicity, its so large that each sub clan within has its own legacy within the Somali state and history in the land and inhabit different geographical terrains basically its not a monolithic group. they can range and pretty much cover all spectrums of behavious of the Somali people. Your wrong by saying that it views itself dominant and as if the clan as a whole is the same time considering each sub clan has different experiences in regard to livelihood. The sub clans are as follows Ogaden basically inhabits the occupied regions in Kenya and Ethiopia and to a fair extent their also significant in the deep South of Somalia. They are the largest clan by number and their significance with Somali state history is mostly non existant. Another example of this is The Somali dictator was actually of Marehan sub clan of Darood which, the dictator was heavily biased towards his clan during the rebellion days and persecuted another sub clan whose members attempted a coup. The Harti which is a sub clan of the Darood can also be broken down into a larger sub clan, Majeerteen and two others which i wont mention. The Majeerteen are one of the more successfull Somali clans, The clan has produced two presidents and three prime ministers since 1960, as well as a Sultan and a King (Boqor). Majeerteens also held many other important government posts in the 1960s and early 1970s, and continue to play a key role in Puntland and TFG. They are typically the more generic type of Somali. ^^^ Where did you get the idea that Isaac are cunning, could it be because of its people are in the forefront at the idea of seccession? Ferej@ You are way off at your perception of the Hawiye.
Good observation overall Ferej, however there are some corrections to be made. 1) Darod is too big, all though they always show solidaity to each other (unlike Hawiye that compete on decimating each other) they still are divided in three political camps these are. Ogaden (the hillbilies of Darod and are percieved by other darod as not that intelligent), Harti ( usually the source of arrogance among the Darods and think they are the center and rightfull rulers of all somali territory) and lastly Marehan ( very wild, these are from the south and are in ways more like hawiye than they are other darods) And then we have the miscellenious darods like Awrtable and Lelkase etc. These live with harti, are from North East and are part of the Harti camp, politically they are insignificant. 2) You mentioned that issaq are trustworthy, which is incorrect! Never say that infront of any somali of any clan including issaq themselves, they will laugh and see you as a comedian. Isaaq are the least loyal and trustworthy people, very snake like, but not the cunning type of snake rather the snake that always gets exposed and busted before attacking its pray. Issaq usually think they are ahead but are in reality always behind everyone. whenever the issaq get an idea they always get the wrong idea. Issaq are like the retard cousins of the jews, the combination of being trecherous but not sophisticated and cunning have shown to be a disasterous cocktail for the issaqs and have resulted in complete failure in absolutly all issaq projects to date. in all their known history they've been stuck in a limbo state, this because they are very persistant and stubborn at implementing the wrong ideas. The british outmanouvered the issaqs and their land in only two days. 3) You say that hawiye are very conservative which is incorrect, hawiye are no where conservative, hawiye are easily shaped and adapt with speed light to everything that is catastrophy, they are very loyal but have no plan and always navigate without a compass, they invented the word disorder. They move up and down, right and left, live by the day and shoot at all directions from the knees, there is no power in this world that can lead and talk sense to hawiye. This clan is a complete mess, somalia today is a mirror image of the hawiye mentality. 4) The rahanweyn are the victim clan of somalia, they work hard and want no beef with anything. But are being unfortunatly bossed around by everyone. The only thing the rahanweyn want is just peace they don't care who is in charge, they claim nothing, they sit on no one, they don't care who sits on them, they neither have superiority or inferiority complex, they hate poliitics and have no opinion, they just exist and want to continue existing without confronting anyone. They are like the Oromos of Ethiopia with the difference of being caught up in a crazy storm. Had the Rahanweyns been the bulk of the somali population then no doubt somalia would have been one of the most prosperous and peacefull country in Africa. The only workforce somali has is the rahanweyn and the somali bantu, the rest of the clans are nomads who are in nature allergic to work. Those are the basics of somali clan mentality and behaviour i've observed, your overall observations were good and i agree.