Why u talking Rubbish, they have never considered themselves as the same ethnicity as tigrayans long before Italians came. There split by the mereb river. They have fought wars with ethnic tigrayans to keep them out. http://www.madote.com/2010/02/biher-tigrinya-and-tigray-people-war-of.html?m=1 . Read this to get a much better understanding.
LOL Eritreans throwing rocks at Dutch cops
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Apollo
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My shitpost triggered an Eritrean to respond. This issue is very sensitive to Eris. :siilaanyolaugh:
VixR
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The people I’m aware of call themselves Tigrinya (from Eritrea), but don’t consider themselves Tigray? They’re half Amhara though, and the kids are closer to their Ethio side. Their father is Tigrinya.
Of course you can, as I said it is all about how you identify yourself. Besides, the word Tigrean is also very unfortunate because it literally means a person from Tigray. It also sends a subtle message, that since they are from Tigray, Eritrea is just a province inside Tigray. This is another political tone this word comes with which of course Eritreans want to avoid by any means. So it is understandable if Eritreans say we are not from Tigray.
This is why u should only.marry people from your own country. bet they will grow up thinking eritrea should give Ethiopia sea access.
No majority of Austrians and Swiss never see themselves as Germans, that is completely wrong. They have even many jokes about "Germans". In fact Eritreans raise the case of these people to show that speaking the same language doesn't necessary make you the same ethnic group. Especially Swiss look down on Germans. Try to ask any Swiss or Austrian if they are German, 99% they will say a big NO.
VixR
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All I know is this family is half Tigrinya (Eritrea) and half Amhara (Ethiopia).
Is Tigre and Tigrinya not the same thing?
Can you spell out each group and what they call their language, and what they call themselves?
Why would they look down on germans?
Because they have many "cheap labor" from Germany, especially from east Germany. Germans are seen as the Poland people in the UK who flood the country
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it is ridiculous and stupid. at least we somalis don't have that mindset. we always identify as somalis whether we live in djibouti, ethiopia or kenya.
Apollo
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They don't see themselves as German now in the citizenship/nationality/semi-cultural sense as the country/state of Germany has attached itself too much with that name. But in the past they did see themselves as just Germans.
Look up the history of that region. Germany itself was only created in the late 1800s. Before that it was a patchwork of German speaking principalities and/or independent merchant regions.
Tigray Tigre Tigrinya Titties who cares
I literally just explained it has nothing to do with colonialism.
Wow so because of a river splitting them these ni99as started.hating each other kkkkkkkk if that's not retard i don't know what is.
Exactly, you are proving my case. Identities whether ethnicity or nationality are just social constructs and are dynamic that could change in due time. That is exactly what I am talking about. Eritreans currently don't identify themselves as Tigreans or Ethiopians. Identity can be modified using political and social means. It is not static coded in the DNA as many wrongly assume.
Apollo
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Issue is, the more educated and informed Swiss and Austrians do see themselves in the ethnic sense to be Germans (just not as being citizens from that country). Only some of the less educated ones don't.
Hitler was an Austrian but the whole world associates him to be a German.
It's not as bad as with Eritreans where a huge portion of Tigrinya Eritreans don't see themselves as being the same ethnicity as Tigray Ethiopians.
That makes it even worse.
Yes I have this friend too he told me he is Tigrinya not Tigray and Eritrean and proud. They are very nationalist not as segmented as the Tigray of Ethiopia were ethnic identities are strong.
