At one time a very disillusioned chief editor of this paper had run an editorial that truly tried to bring to light the kind of mean spirited cruel stupid and ugly people that we are as a Nation.
Try these!
1-The Emperor Yohannes,the priest king that he was,was constantly driven to the edges on account of the warring menekuses who had made it a habit to give each other a chase down the narrow alley of Der al Sultan.He cried broken down and ashamed.So did Tayitu.Those are CONSCIENCES of the Nation.
2-Your average habesha is so ill humored and mean that he/she wouldn't point out the nearest Bank to you if you are a stranger in a small town.They try to mug you, instead.
3-I will come back to give you scores of other reasons...
4-Like I said I am back..WHO WOULDN'T RUN FOR TURKEY? I mean given the chances.The track stars Miss Tola and Legesse were so awe stricken to find people who accord them respect and love in victory as well as in loss, the more so in the latter case.They were trilled and loudly wondered who wouldn't given the chances.
5-That bastion of inefficiency ETV at one time has aired a programme which essentially tried to locate and anhiliate the root causes of exodus.
Came on board an honest fella.
He is an MD.'People,' he'd said'between us, I will emigrate to any country on the face of this planet except, Somalia and Darfur.'He spoke for millions.
6-The Engineer Hailu spilled our secret to Stephan Sackur and the Nation was furious.Why?'Cos he'd betrayed us to the world.
WHAT DID HE DO? HE TOLD ON US THAT WE ARE A NATION OF DOUBLE FACED UNTRUSTWORTHY PEOPLE.
7-Look at the movies' starring' Ethiopians .You would want to lock yourself up in an asylum till the last one of them idiots is gone.To dooms day than be forced to stare at those dumb horrible posters.
You aren't gonna believe it but there are a 'genre' of these 'therapy' films that look like shot by recuperating nutcases that specilalize on least known Ethiopian 'history.'
They do in a _style_,truly inimitable!They dare tell us the Holy Mother of God is Ethiopian by chioce.And that the Good Lord spoke not Armaic but Ge'ez.
Liars!We even lie about our God!

What is going on Lena? What is the rationale here? You must have been at the pinnacle of your frustration when you wrote that. It definitely clouded your judgement and might have affected your long standing sentiment about Ethiopians.

Good that you vented it. But I am sure by now as a well read person, you are in remorse for that hasty, shallow characterization and profiling of Ethiopians.

All you have been arguing with were personal instances that we all have to put up with if we need to coexist with any human, irrespective of their race, location, religion or creed. One circumstance that could have made us peculiar(and hence which should be understandable and a drive for change) is the persistent instability, poverty, unemployment and intolerance between nations and nationalities. And it should also be vivid to you unless oblivious, that in cases where there is fierce competition for jobs, food, housing etc., its natural for a being to start to reflect their animal side. Which by the way makes you the latest addition.

Yes, many guinea pigs that were forced to live in cramped cages with little or no food, in a laboratory, were seen to be violent, cannibalistic and homosexual.

So, the bottom line is we are not any different. We are just like ever other nation if not better! Circumstances are not identities.

Two things...
1-Yes I was frustrated.
2-I stand by what I said
How are ya, gentle Zee?
Perhaps it is the otherway round.There are individual instances of shining sweet personalities that constantly make your life worth living under the cruel mercless Abyissinian sky.
What I am doing is like you said is letting the steam off and breath freely.
This face of Ethiopia I never liked.
Good for me I live on the side of the greener lawn.Quite healthy.
It is lately I was caught up in the turmoil and came to know my people.Those people!