r/Amhara

Remove Sad_Register as Mod he has come out as PP.

But now Axumite is left as head mod who admitted to being half Tigrayan. As such Fasil1235 placed a Tigrayan mixed Amhara as the head mod of the Amhara Forum before he resigned

Europeans drew out an entire "continent" because of linguistic, cultural, and religious differences from the massive landmass of Eurasia. However, when it comes to Africa, the second-largest landmass where people are far more diverse, it just gets one general shameful name because some guy lost a war.

The term "Africa" originally only applied to a small territory in modern-day Tunisia where a Roman general defeated a Carthaginian general in war.

Because the Roman general defeated that guy, the Romans conquered the territory. They named the new province "Africa" after the local Afri tribe, and the winning general was given the honorary title "Africanus" for his victory.

Later, that term was used in general for the unknown regions of the sub-Sahara as well.

To use the notion of "Africa" is to use a Eurocentric worldview and not a linguistic, cultural, or religious one. The Europeans reasonably created a separate "continent" out of a massive landmass and called anyone outside of their region Asian or African.

Arab? Asian. Dravidian? Asian. Korean? Asian. Persian? Asian. Turk? Asian.

Egyptian? African. Habesha? African. Zulu? African. Igbo? African. Bantu? African.

It's just completely Eurocentric nonsense.

We're not all the same people, so why believe, think, and act like it?

Hannibal, a guy we've never heard of from a people we've never heard of, lost to a Roman guy we've never heard of, but somehow we're African...

Who lived in Shewa before the Amhara?

Is someone from Menz closer genetically to someone from Gondar or Adama more?

Hey guys I just wanted to share a petition that is trying to be brought forth to the House of Commons of Canada. The House of Commons requires a minimum of 500 valid signatures from Canadian citizens or residents to be certified and presented in the House. If you’re an Amhara/Ethiopian Canadian citizen or resident, please take a few minutes to read the petition and, if you agree with its objectives, consider signing and sharing it further 🙏🏾

Link to petition here and if you’re wary of clicking on links it can be searched on the House of Commons website under “e-7556”.

Many of those who identify as Oromo simply speak the Oromo language, but culturally and genetically, they are very different. An Oromo speaker from Wellega is genetically different from an Oromo speaker from Hararghe, and they both have distinct cultures. The same applies to Oromo speakers from Jimma compared to those from Guji, they are genetically different and have unique cultural backgrounds. The only thread that connects them is the language they share. Similarly, an Oromo speaker from Shewa is genetically and culturally distinct from one from Borana, and an Oromo speaker from Bale is also genetically and culturally different from an Oromo speaker in Illubabor. Essentially, the "Oromo nation" is comprised of various ethnic groups who merely adopted the Oromo identity. Many of them come from diverse origins, which is evident from their phenotypes alone, you don't even need to dig into their DNA or history to recognize this. In fact, many who identify as Oromo are not ethnically Oromo, they are simply Oromo speakers who adopted this classification because they spoke the language, or had ancestors with Oromo names, or wanted to keep their property, or did it for safety reasons. For example, many Amharas changed their ethnic identity to Oromo just to keep their land during the "Land to the Tiller" program. And after the Derg regime fell, others did the same to avoid mistreatment by the anti Amhara rebels who were registering people by ethnicity when they took over power. It was only after the Derg came to power, and especially after the ethnic constitution was implemented, that Oromo elites began making efforts to connect all of them through a shared culture, which is why they aggressively promote "Oromo holidays" like Irreecha.

They are also among the least genetically homogeneous ethnic groups in Ethiopia, so I wonder how many of them are descendants of people from various ethnic groups who were assimilated through this process 🤔

"Habesha", it's an old exonym (from "Habash," used historically by outsiders like South Arabians) referring broadly to the Christian, Semitic-speaking highland peoples of the Horn of Africa. It wasn't coined by or specific to Amhara; Amhara rulers used it, after taking power from the Zagwe in 1270. So, not our term, originally.

Another big problem, much of our culture, history, language is in this umbrella term but why use umbrella when we can use our distinct name or country. The problem is in the future, Amhara culture, innovation, history will be stuck there(umbrella term) so we should avoid this. Lets abandon it and focus on Amhara/Ethiopia. Any thoughts?

💰💰congrats abel for the qatari check (qatar also actively enslaving east africans)

Whenever someone comments something that doesn't align with Oromo propagandas against Amhara, he always reply with donkey emoji, a slur that tplfists and olgists used against Amharas in the 80s and 90s.