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LittleBlue

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12. Duh I know the history. Yes, the Abyssinian empire included lands that today are many nations

Reply to leveymg (Reply #9)

Fri Sep 18, 2015, 02:13 PM

Sep 2015

That doesn't change the fact that you lumped in modern Ethiopia lazily with the other modern countries that were colonized.

Ethiopians consider their resistance a form of pride. They were not colonized.

I know the history of historical Italian Somaliland, Eritrea, Sudan, Ethiopia, and the other nations in that region. Don't call me ignorant of history when you lump all Horn of Africa people together.

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Wouldn't going south be the better option? nt ChisolmTrailDem Sep 2015 #1

To be appalingly cynical about it Kelvin Mace Sep 2015 #2

A welfare state needs population growth to make ends meet. closeupready Sep 2015 #3

I feel the same way. You had Eritreans showing up as refugees in Italy LittleBlue Sep 2015 #4

Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Libya were colonized by Italy. France ruled Syria. It's not just leveymg Sep 2015 #5

Ummmmm Ethiopia resisted colonialism bro LittleBlue Sep 2015 #6

The Abyssinian empire included northern Ethiopia and Eritrea. leveymg Sep 2015 #9

Duh I know the history. Yes, the Abyssinian empire included lands that today are many nations LittleBlue Sep 2015 #12

In driving around this Ethiopian cul d' sac, you've still not addressed the point that was made. leveymg Sep 2015 #13

Liberia has an even weaker colonial history to the US, than closeupready Sep 2015 #14

You're right about Liberia. We certainly need to do more in West Africa. leveymg Sep 2015 #15

Economic immigrants nichomachus Sep 2015 #7

Times have changed LittleBlue Sep 2015 #8

It'll end when Europe, fed up, votes in far-right wing governments Kotya Sep 2015 #10

Exactly LittleBlue Sep 2015 #11

That's been going on since the 1840s, when Irish migration was considered a subhuman wave leveymg Sep 2015 #16

Far-right governments will "solve" the refugee problem? Should the left seek a "far-right" solution? pampango Sep 2015 #18

I don't have a say in the matter. I don't vote in European elections. Kotya Sep 2015 #19

Then call them what they are. Igel Sep 2015 #17

I guess all those Syrian refugees should just spend their lives in tent camps in the desert. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2015 #20

Do you believe those Syrians (or anyone else) have a branford Sep 2015 #21