1. Your mistaking modesty for meekness. We are modest because we are truly confident in ourselves. We don't need to shout who we are because we don't have to. Our existence is not in relevence of someone else ( ie Eritreans, Somali...etc) we are simply Ethiopian and the world know it and we like it that way.
2. It was occupied by the Italians for 5 years and yes their is a difference. I am sure you learend about it in your Euro history class were you also learned about the occupation of France by Germany for the same 5 year period.
3. Ethio- Eri war is a family fight that got out of hand. Males and Eysays were cousins that disagreed and dragged a bewildered people in to their family feud. Ethiopians did not know why we flighting Eritreans to being with since their were never considered enemy. So it dragged on for decades.
What can we say...we are not into indiscriminate killings
They voted and got their independence we are all Gucci now
How is your intra clan wars coming along btw?