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How did Gurages managed to get/amass such love

Post by Misraq » 16 Aug 2022, 08:24

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Just look at the comments of this video and see how the great people of Gurages earnt the love and respect of others. Key take away points

- Gurages know joke and have zero inferiority complex
- Gurages are hard working and never beg.


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Re: How did Gurages managed to get/amass such love

Post by DefendTheTruth » 16 Aug 2022, 15:43

I think there is no dispute about the hardworking nature of the Gurage peoeple in Ethiopia, perhaps one of the most hardworking if not the most hardworking in the whole of Ethiopia.

What do hardworking people need in the modern era of global economic order? They need market not territory (the whole world is their territory, as far as they can access the market thereof), territorial claim has been the medieval paradigm, with no great value in the modern market economy. To understand this doesn't need a rocket scientist, does it?

What did those who have owned Kililis get in Ethiopia, so far in an over 3 decades of time? Just WAAJ (Whinning At All Junctures), and still there are others, who wish to get there. Isn't this itself funny?

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Re: How did Gurages managed to get/amass such love

Post by Horus » 16 Aug 2022, 15:55

DefendTheTruth wrote:
16 Aug 2022, 15:43
I think there is no dispute about the hardworking nature of the Gurage peoeple in Ethiopia, perhaps one of the most hardworking if not the most hardworking in the whole of Ethiopia.

What do hardworking people need in the modern era of global economic order? They need market not territory (the whole world is their territory, as far as they can access the market thereof), territorial claim has been the medieval paradigm, with no great value in the modern market economy. To understand this doesn't need a rocket scientist, does it?

What did those who have owned Kililis get in Ethiopia, so far in an over 3 decades of time? Just WAAJ (Whinning At All Junctures), and still there are others, who wish to get there. Isn't this itself funny?
DTT

Yes, Gurage may not need a vast stretch of land where it can raise cattle etc. But it needs itስ own ክልል to sustain is identity, people hood and culture. Gurage built Jima, Agaro Awasa, Asela, Zewai and on and no . Then what happens a lazy የክብት እረኛ ማታ መጥቶ ፎቅክን አቃጥሎ ይሄዳል! ስለዚህ ሁለተኛ ጉራጌ የማንም ጎሳ የሚቆጣጠረው ከተማ ሄዶ አያለማም! በቃ ! ጉራጌ ባለው ትንሽ መሬት አንድ ጃፓን አንድ ትንሹዋ እንግሊዝ መገንባት ይችላል።


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Re: How did Gurages managed to get/amass such love

Post by Misraq » 16 Aug 2022, 22:49

DefendTheTruth wrote:
16 Aug 2022, 15:43
I think there is no dispute about the hardworking nature of the Gurage peoeple in Ethiopia, perhaps one of the most hardworking if not the most hardworking in the whole of Ethiopia.

What do hardworking people need in the modern era of global economic order? They need market not territory (the whole world is their territory, as far as they can access the market thereof), territorial claim has been the medieval paradigm, with no great value in the modern market economy. To understand this doesn't need a rocket scientist, does it?

What did those who have owned Kililis get in Ethiopia, so far in an over 3 decades of time? Just WAAJ (Whinning At All Junctures), and still there are others, who wish to get there. Isn't this itself funny?
We live in a ethnic federalism system that gives special rights only to those certain groups in every sector be it economy, power, education...etc. You know damn well that such system doesn't serve Gurage well because it is not a fair and equality based system. Hence Gurage has the right to execute it's statehood right and develope it's turf

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Re: How did Gurages managed to get/amass such love

Post by DefendTheTruth » 17 Aug 2022, 15:14

Misraq wrote:
16 Aug 2022, 22:49
DefendTheTruth wrote:
16 Aug 2022, 15:43
I think there is no dispute about the hardworking nature of the Gurage peoeple in Ethiopia, perhaps one of the most hardworking if not the most hardworking in the whole of Ethiopia.

What do hardworking people need in the modern era of global economic order? They need market not territory (the whole world is their territory, as far as they can access the market thereof), territorial claim has been the medieval paradigm, with no great value in the modern market economy. To understand this doesn't need a rocket scientist, does it?

What did those who have owned Kililis get in Ethiopia, so far in an over 3 decades of time? Just WAAJ (Whinning At All Junctures), and still there are others, who wish to get there. Isn't this itself funny?
We live in a ethnic federalism system that gives special rights only to those certain groups in every sector be it economy, power, education...etc. You know damn well that such system doesn't serve Gurage well because it is not a fair and equality based system. Hence Gurage has the right to execute it's statehood right and develope it's turf
Many of the businesses in the nation's capital (and many other cities around the country) are owned by Guraghes, by all estimations overproportionally to their population ratio. A big business needs a big market, not a fence around itself. A fence is a delimitation to one's freedom of all aspects.

Why do Guraghes need to follow that path of limiting their own opportunity?

If it is about a cultural authonomy then they don't need necessarily a kililil of their own, a zonal administration can do the same good to a kilil in this regard and Guraghe can live anywhere he/she may like,

A Guraghe kilil will hurt the Guraghe people, in my view.

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Re: How did Gurages managed to get/amass such love

Post by Abere » 17 Aug 2022, 15:22

Should not the so-called "federal government" pay compensation for the businesses destroyed in Shahemene, Arusi, etc by the OLF-Qeerroo herd? The failure of the ethnic based federalism deprived of Gurage either to work and live in their own region or to do business and make their living in other region, more particularly in the so-called "Oromia region" which made out of stolen territories from the Gurages as well. Anyone cutting through the Jimma- Addis Ababa highway will notice all the way from Gibe to Wolisso.

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