Ethnic Identity In Ethiopia

Stephanie Branson
SOC 202 12/7/07

Ethnic Identity in Ethiopia. Why is it Important? http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=44181
The article that I read was about the ethnic identity in Ethiopia and why it was important. It goes on to talk about human evolution and how we are individuals with varieties of identities. This in turn makes up racial identity, ethnic identity, as well as political identity. It states that ethnic identity is formed by shared culture, religion, geography, and language of individuals who are connected by loyalty and kinship. It later goes into talking about advanced western societies who have a common race and language and how they view ethnicity in an unconscious way due to societal norms. Yet in other places such as underdeveloped countries they are not able to do such things because societal norms had been formed around specific ethnic and cultural frameworks.
Over the semester, I have been exposed to so many different topics relating to ethnicity and religion. I have seen so much diversity through doing these blogs as well as learning so many new things. It was just interesting to see all the diversity that there is in the world because you get so caught up in what is going on in your place that you rarely take the time to see what’s going on in the world around you. So it was just nice to see that even though it was not always a positive thing but it was still good to learn new information.