They walk the walk [very zealous practitioners of Orthadoxy] and they talk the talk [speak Amharic to a very high degree, in some communities more then their native languages like Awngi and Xamtanga]I mean... Christian sure but being Agew means they are, by definition, not Xabashis.
Just did some digging.... the vast majority of Xabashis might just be assimilated Agew.I mean... Christian sure but being Agew means they are, by definition, not Xabashis.
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Just did some digging.... the vast majority of Xabashis might just be assimilated Agew.
Habeshas are more or less acculturated Agaws
Inspired by an old post of Razib Khan's on Anatolian Turks and their genetic relationship to Armenians (and in truth also Pontic Greeks...
I consider Sidama to be Cushites because for one they actually claim that and secondly they are very recent converts to Christianity and it's not even the Xabashi kind.Agaws are not Habash. They are Christians, but some are Muslims, especially on the Eritrean side. To make this clear, Habash speaks to the people, not some word used broadly by Habash supremacists, lol, who include all types of Cushites in that category. Their roots are non-Habash. I talked to a Kambataa man who considered himself Habash. That guy did not understand what he was getting himself into. Taking on the same identity that made his forefathers subjects and taxed them so high, and also brutalized them.
Agaws are as Christian as Sidamas.
Listen, man, Habash are the Semitic-descended peoples. The Agaws are of a different origin. It's the equivalent of saying Wolayta are Oromos... it's nonsense. The Semites are influenced by Agaws but are not Agaws by identity while if you check actual Agaw history for what was not forced on them, they have a distinct language and history. The irony is that you're pushing Habash ideology by forcing that on them. Them being Christian has nothing to do with that since when the Habash established, those niggas were pagan. And there were pagan Cushites. Them being Christian does not make them not Habash, the same reason why all the Christians in Ethiopia that are not Habash do not suddenly change their background.
Culturally speaking? Because I thought Agaws genetically cluster very closely with Amhara and are basically an Ethiosemitic group in all but language.I mean... Christian sure but being Agew means they are, by definition, not Xabashis.
Some Agaws will be very mixed with Habash so when they say they are Habash is because they want to move up socio-economically or straight up chose the Habash side of their ancestry. But you have plenty of Agaws that are not like that. Though, of course, you will find all types of Cushites in Ethiopia that call themselves "Habesha" under false information since Amhara niggas tell them "it means we're one" type shit.
They do it because the Habashi label took the Abbisinyan route (Menelik and co., straight up believed in the spread of that ideology in a supremacist way), and they don't identify with it since they know it's tied to the creation of Ethiopia that they were not part of. That is why many Biher Tigrinya straight up just say they are Eritrean.
