Quote: (07-31-2013 10:21 AM)shibby Wrote:
Quote: (07-31-2013 09:50 AM)Aliblahba Wrote:
Quote: (07-31-2013 09:35 AM)shibby Wrote:
I can agree with you that Ethiopians are very attractive. They are generally slim but still have big booties and their faces have more Western features (sharper nose, thinner lips), and they are also a little lighter. Eritrea is the same. It has a lot to do with the large Arab influence in their bloodline.
They are considered Middle Eastern more than African. A Kuwaiti friend broke down the history going back to tribes, but I can't remember the specifics. Plus they have a lot of Italian blood. The area was a colony until after WW2. Italian soldiers went there on R&R and did some genetic alterations.
It's largely accepted that Ethiopia was the only African country never colonized. The Italians tried twice but failed on both occasions, or so they say. No doubt there's some Italian blood around though. As for the Arab thing, while I was in the country I was told that it's disputed whether it was the Ethiopians who migrated to Saudi Arabia or the Saudis who came to Ethiopia many, many years ago. The Arab influence is obvious though, not only in their faces but also very much so in their language.
One thing's for sure - the girls are freaking hot.
My family is from Eritrea. The look of the people has nothing to do with Italians who, contrary to what one might assume, did not mix with the local population and, instead, kept them segregated. Of course, there are a few that did marry the locals, but the level was statistically insignificant. There's no distinct class of people in Eritrea or Ethiopia that have Italian ancestry. Personally, I've never seen such an individual. I have many members of my family that are quite light skinned and do not have any Italian blood.
In fact, many people like Haile Selassie didn't even look like a Sub-Saharan African and he was around before the Italian era.
The Italian military only occupied Ethiopia for five years and Eritrea was an Italian colony from the 1890s until about WWII, though very few Italians ever lived there. The ones who did brought their spouses. There was never any adoption of the Italian culture in that short time (no names, language, etc). The only evidence you see from that era is in the art deco architecture in Eritrea's capital, Asmara, and some Italian buildings in Ethiopia.
As for Arab blood, most definitely. Both of my parents speak fluent Arabic and when you visit the Red Sea coast the people who live there are Muslims who speak Arabic as their mother tongue. In fact, they are Arabs. They look more like people from Yemen than from Sub-Saharan Africa. Eritrea/Ethiopia was where the earliest followers of the prophet Muhammad traveled to spread Islam since it is on the other side of the Red Sea from Arabia.
Also, the major languages of Eritrea (Tigrinya) and Ethiopia (Amharic) are Semitic languages, which means they are part of the same language family as Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic (the language spoken by Jesus). They are actually South Semitic languages so they probably sprang up from Yemen before the Arabization began there, and then came to the Horn of Africa. It's hard to say for sure. It's like with coffee, which came from Ethiopia first and then went to Yemen next. Hard to know when those links began and which one(s) influenced the other.
Either way, white guys can pick up with Eritrean/Ethiopian chicks. I've been to a couple of weddings like that in the US and know of many such relationships in Europe.
I just sent back my DNA kit from 23andme yesterday. Hopefully that may give some answers.