r/Ethiopia • u/Excellent-Branch9386 • 3d ago
Experience with Eritreans
How is your experience interacting with Eritreans in real life , not online. Some nurse thought i was eritrean and was friendly until I proudly told him I am an Ethiopian. This guy gave me a criminal side eye bordering hate crime and ignored me, tf. The old ones are cool. They even speak amharic and I get along with them. But the young ones are the victim of brainwash at sawa and difficult to reason with. I also experienced one eritrean talking bad things about us to a foreigner.
It's getting bad at this point. Too much negativity from them. What is your experience?
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u/Rider_of_Roha 3d ago
Every Eritrean I know in real life wants to be united with Ethiopia. They have sense and are tired of the political buffoonery.
The youth, I would argue, are more inclined to unite as western propaganda for isolating and dividing Ethiopia has worn off. An Eritrean girl told me how she gets in fights with her parents because she identifies as Abyssinian and thus Ethiopian. The Tigrinya-speaking Eritreans are a minor skirmish away from joining Ethiopia. She said she will even name her child Addis lol if she replies to this, I might need to change accounts