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The Ethiopian
Stereotypes
#1 Ethiopia is poor and underdeveloped
#2 Africa is a country: All of Africa speaks the same
Superstitions
If you eat in a dark room, demons will eat with you.
If you throw away excess food, you will starve in the
future.
If you have hair on your leg, you will be wealthy.
formal.
The most common form of greeting is a handshake
with direct eye contact.
The handshake is generally much lighter than in
Western cultures.
After a close personal relationship has been
established people of the same sex may kiss three
times on the cheeks.
especially firm.
They are always combined with strong, direct eye
contact.
informal
Power usually means the ability to give orders, and
in a hierarchy power is directed downward through
the organization.
More men are in power than women. Patriarchal
society.
that a society deals with the fact that the future can never be
known: should we try to control the future or just let it
happen? This ambiguity brings with it anxiety and different
cultures have learnt to deal with this anxiety in different
ways. The extent to which the members of a culture
feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations
and have created beliefs and institutions that try to
avoid these is reflected in the UAI score. Ethiopia received an
intermediate score of 55 on this dimension.
Current Events
Jawbone fossil in Ethiopia sheds light on human
Citations
Colgan, A. Blackboard Learn .