lmao girl you lowkey right, i wouldn't say we are obsessed with ethiopia, but if one of the two groups had to take the obsession label it would be somalia. i dont blame them tho, its not easy to like a country that a third of its whole land is stolen from somalis.
but i wish somalis learned to seperate the people and the nation.
i also think its a more of an issue of proximity, as ethiopians and somalis are so similar in almost every way, but if you're not around each other, its easier to 'other' them and spew division. growing up in toronto with hella habeshas, sudanis and somalis, we were all one and gravitated towards one another naturally. why am i gonna not f*ck with a people who look exactly like me, and a lot share same religion as me? this is not the case in some heavily populated somali areas, such as london, some cities in the US, some scandi places etc. who I assume are the ones who easily hate on habeshas, never meeting them.
but yh, as long as ethiopia still owns large areas of somali land, i dont think the 'obsession' will stop
. Very fascinating indeed.
