Ethiopian-American Community Bank to open in DC

[Max B]

What ethnic group dominates DC? oromos or amharas?

 

[ultraflexed]

In CA and DC Ethiopians got a tight bond with AA. They make moves.

correct, and they don't c00n

 

[Bawon Samedi]

????.... I mean Ethiopians HAVE been living in DC for a long time now and are not recent immigrants with superior complex attitudes to AAs. I'm going by what people told me and the vibe I got when I was in DC.

 

[get these nets]

Is the rapper Mic Geronimo Ethiopian?

 

[Asicz]

????.... I mean Ethiopians HAVE been living in DC for a long time now and are not recent immigrants with superior complex attitudes to AAs. I'm going by what people told me and the vibe I got when I was in DC.

Lets just stop there.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

????.... I mean Ethiopians HAVE been living in DC for a long time now and are not recent immigrants with superior complex attitudes to AAs. I'm going by what people told me and the vibe I got when I was in DC.

I really started noticing Ethopians (in noticeable numbers) since 2002-2003. I had no idea they took over like that though. I have to swing by downtown Silver Spring and see what' poppin around City Place.

 

[ultraflexed]

I live in CA and nothing but all love witg Eritrean and Ethiopians....and they don''t c00n for the most part

 

[Bawon Samedi]

I really started noticing Ethopians (in noticeable numbers) since 2002-2003. I had no idea they took over like that though. I have to swing by downtown Silver Spring and see what' poppin around City Place.

I thought they were in DC since the 80s or 90s especially when Ethiopia was suffering from that famine?

 

[get these nets]

What ethnic group dominates DC? oromos or amharas?

I'm not from DC nor am I Ethiopian, but I think they do what other immigrant groups to when they get here.....leave some of the home country traditions back home. I'd be surprised if the two groups don't inter marry heavily in America.

 

[Max B]

I'm not from DC nor am I Ethiopian, but I think they do what other immigrant groups to when they get here.....leave some of the home country traditions back home. I'd be surprised if the two groups don't inter marry heavily in America.

It really depends on the religion. Christrian oromo do tend marry christian amaharas.

 

[Frangala]

I'm not from DC nor am I Ethiopian, but I think they do what other immigrant groups to when they get here.....leave some of the home country traditions back home. I'd be surprised if the two groups don't inter marry heavily in America.

Disagree. I actually think it's the reverse that because these immigrant groups are away from their country of origin they go the extra mile to hold on or preserve certain norms from the country of origin especially if there is a slim to inexistent chance of going back (Ethiopia after the famine was deemed hopeless). I grew up with a couple of Nigerian guys born and raised in the US both Igbos and they ended up marrying Igbo women as they were constantly being reinforced that notion by their parents.

However, there are still some cases where full assimilation does occur whether it is marrying someone from a different ethnic group that you wouldn't even entertain at home or marrying a non-African. But if you asked the parents, they would like to preserve some of the traditions.

 

[MaxPain]

Ethopians in DC good for charging you an arm n a leg for parking, making good pizza, and having young women that dont fukk with AAs rarely

And following u around the store

I was cool with a few from silver spring growing up tho

 

[Secure Da Bag]

I thought they were in DC since the 80s or 90s especially when Ethiopia was suffering from that famine?

I don't dispute that. But when I started seeing Ethiopians pop up on a regular basis and in groups was around 2002/3.

 

[Elle Driver]

I thought they were in DC since the 80s or 90s especially when Ethiopia was suffering from that famine?

Earliest ones came in the 30s and 40s but when the Eritrean independence war happened they ran away and escaped to Europe then Oakland in the 60s and 70s. When the Derg took over Ethiopians came in the 70s.

 

[AB Ziggy]

Disagree. I actually think it's the reverse that because these immigrant groups are away from their country of origin they go the extra mile to hold on or preserve certain norms from the country of origin especially if there is a slim to inexistent chance of going back (Ethiopia after the famine was deemed hopeless). I grew up with a couple of Nigerian guys born and raised in the US both Igbos and they ended up marrying Igbo women as they were constantly being reinforced that notion by their parents.

However, there are still some cases where full assimilation does occur whether it is marrying someone from a different ethnic group that you wouldn't even entertain at home or marrying a non-African. But if you asked the parents, they would like to preserve some of the traditions.

This, even here in the NY/NJ area, most African marriages i've witnessed have been among people originally from their villages or closeby areas back home, within the same religion, same ethnic group. Rarely seen intraethnic weddings among countrymen.