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Languages
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Official language:
Amharic
Other languages:
Arabic
Tigrinya
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- Family members work as a unit where father or eldest son
has the leading role
- Men are expected to make decisions specially at time of
crisis
- Women are the caregivers
- People are typically reserved, shy, polite and respectful
of authority figures (doctors and nurses)
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Religion & Death Concepts/Rituals |
- Coptic Orthodox Christian.
- Manu Moslems in Eastern region
- News of death is disclosed to close friends before family
is told, so that friends are there for support .
- Never tell female family members first
- At time of death loud cries are customary, both from men
and women
- Women may tear their clothes and beat their chests till
they become sick with grief
- Preparing body at the morgue is acceptable; cremation
usually is not
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| Health
Care Values |
- Pregnancy considered dangerous state as fetus can fall
prey to evil eye and sorcery, believed to cause miscarriages
- Ethiopians have 2 theories for diseases, one caused by
external factors such as polluted water and spoiled food;
the other attributed to God and demonic spirits
- Genetic defect accepted as will of God
- Typically resistant to psychiatric treatment
- Health is obtained by peaceful relationship with supernatural
world
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| Diet |
- Injera is the mainstay of the Ethiopian diet. This phenomenally
bouncy bread is made from the peculiarly Ethiopian teff
cereal. The other ubiquitous food is wat, the sauce in which
meat and vegetables are cooked - wat comes in a fiery, kay
format, or as the milder alicha.
- Usually eaten with fingers
- Prefer spicy food
- 3 meal a day, with breakfast being the lighter meal
- Coptic Christians do not eat meat or dairy 200 days out
of the year
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- Ethiopia included Eritrea until 1993 when conflict divided
the country
- Ethiopia is the only African country never to have been
colonized, although it was occupied by the Italians in the
1930s until 1941.
- Ethiopia claims 5000 years of self-rule and an indigenous
Christian Church, the Coptic Church, going back to the 4th
century C.E.
A group of ancient Ethiopians called the Falashas, were
Jewish.
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