Toothpick Inventors to Reclaim Ethiopia
13 August, 2007 | 4 comments | Category: ethnicity, I.dentity, madness!, peace & conflict
2.6 million years ago,
Stone tools, Gona, Ethiopia
2.0 million years ago,
Oldest Toothpick use, Ethiopia
1.7 million years ago,
Human compassion, E. Africa
600 thousand years ago,
Scalping Bodo, Ethiopia
I wonder why people needed toothpicks so early?… and which language in Ethiopia has the most names for toothpicks? maybe we can call the people using that language: the people of toothsan-pick! (son of the toothpick-inventor)!
…yawwwzer! + we can do mitochondrial DNA research to find which people correspond to the old toothpick inventors (employing diverse methods of research- aheeeem!)… And then once and for all the dilemma of who owns Ethiopia shall be resolved! mu-hahahahahaa!
raises voice: “… I hereby hold paleontology evidence that proves the inventors of toothpicks to have had the oldest known presence in Ethiopia! by the power vested in me by science as common person Abebech Jiregna, i declare DebreSinTir (Gona, Ethiopia renamed) the capital of the true “ethiopians”!”
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Almost any state plagued by ethnic conflict has raging arguments about ‘who came first?’, ‘who is a settler?’ this was the case for some of the most brutal genocides (Rwanda) and the raging conflicts of the Kurds, Tamil, Catalonians, Irish, Serbian and the former Yugoslav nations…tis also is the case with topialand…seems ludicrous and fruitless in my humble opinion.
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4 comments to “Toothpick Inventors to Reclaim Ethiopia”
stories, theirs and ours « |y?hasab s?nduQ|, October 12th, 2007 at 1:51 pm:
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[...] We are all dealing with the identity issue, the ethnic conflict within ourselves, our families and neighbours – can we take a few minutes and listen to the experiences of others with an openness to feel their walk? walk their walk and find a common ground that feels smooth for both of us? after all, they really are just like us: “immigrants!“ [...]
Reading our Past through Genes « |s?nduQ|, March 12th, 2008 at 5:51 am:
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[...] March 12, 2008 at · Filed under Africa, Ethiopia, I.dentity, conflict, ethnic, ethnicity, history, nation, technology …a tangential continuation of this humor piece. [...]
Chinese people are Black, Race is wack! « |s?nduQ|, July 16th, 2008 at 12:22 pm:
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[...] Since the African emigrations began, a mere 7,000 generations have passed. Because of the limited founder population and the short time since dispersal, humans are strikingly homogeneous — differing from one another only once in a thousand sub-units, called bases, out three billion. And of the differences between individuals, 88 to 90 percent can be found within a local population, while only about 10 to 12 percent distinguish one race from another. read more… Ethnicity is a social construct, though geneticists can track it. But in all finality, we are all intermixed immigrants ..Unless our parents were the genius inventors of human affection or toothpicks!! [...]
senduQ » Why I write about Ethnicity…, March 14th, 2009 at 1:19 am:
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