Ever heard of Ethiopia being ''The Japan of Africa

[keles]

Ethiopians are rascist. If not rascist, they are one of the most closed societies in the world.

My brother came back from Ethiopia today and showed me his home video footage that was shot in the capital Addis Ababa. (he is half ethiopian like me)

Everywhere he went he was met with ''ferenji! ferenji!'' and if he tried to have a conversation with someone they wouldnt pay any attention to him and if they did, they would keep their eyes to the floor.

I searched this on the net and I found that Ethiopians were voted to be the most racsist people in Africa (and this is towards other Africans!!!)- even more than Aparthide South Africans.
I was shocked to find this - it was written by a Ugandan Newspaper.

This reminded me of how Japan shuns the rest of Asia in believing it is 'superior' to them.
Also, Ethiopia was labelled by European powers in the beginning of the 20th century as being ''the Japan of Africa'' - could this be due to its romantisized culture or something else?

I'm confused.....

Also it reminds me of o

[Melnorme]

The Ethiopians garnered grudging respect from Europeans because they managed to beat an Italian colonial army.

Read this, maybe you'll like it :

www.exile.ru/151/war_nerd.html

[keles]

lol - yeah here's what i mean - why do ethiopians think this???

''Ethiopia is just plain weird. The Ahmaric people who live in the highlands and ran the place till recently, have their own version of racism. They consider themselves the only really white people in the world. The way they see it, "white" Europeans are red, and other Africans - the ones they sold as slaves (slavery wasn't outlawed in Ethiopia till 1928) - are black.''

[Melnorme]

keles said:

lol - yeah here's what i mean - why do ethiopians think this???

''Ethiopia is just plain weird. The Ahmaric people who live in the highlands and ran the place till recently, have their own version of racism. They consider themselves the only really white people in the world. The way they see it, "white" Europeans are red, and other Africans - the ones they sold as slaves (slavery wasn't outlawed in Ethiopia till 1928) - are black.''

It's probably a combination of their partial Caucasian ancestry and their long-standing Oriental Orthodox Christian religious affiliation. There's probably a similar ethno-racial dynamic between 'Sudanese Arabs' and other Sudanese.

The Ethiopians picked up Coptic Christianity early and they have a long and bloody history of fighting off jihads launched by a dozen of the Islamic kingdoms around them. When you start researching Ethiopian history you come across these really cool wall murals they did of Ethiopian knights with eyes like eggs, stabbing Arabs and Bantu and Somalis at their feet.

A people that have a history like this tend to think of themselves as 'a race apart'.

[nordicyouth]

Yes, Ethiopians claim that because Ethiopia contains the source of the Nile River, that they are (at least in environmental terms) responsible for Ancient Aegyptian civilisation.

[Scoob]

This is unsurprising. Ethnic groups living on borderlands between races (as Ethiopians do) are bound to be either very exclusionary or fade into one group or the other over time.

Compare racial attitudes in Scandinavia with racial attitudes in the antebellum USA for example.

[Phrederick]

What language do they speak in Ethiopia?

[keles]

there are over 80 main languages and more than 200 dialects!

but the main languages are Amarinya, Tigrinya, Orominya, Guraginya, and Somali (not sure bout the last one...)

The ethiopian government allocated provinces for each of the linguistic groups, as to not cause 'trouble' as it has done in other African countries (by merging two cultures together in some cases!!)


oh ok....then why does it make Japan have 'rascist' attitudes to other asians? Is it because they are a developed country? Doesnt seem very likely....or is it something else?

(thanks for all contributions on why ethiopians are 'racsist' lol)