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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [QUOTE]Diop was a "Marxist"[/QUOTE]^ Marx = appeal to authority fallacy, appeal to hero worship, and appeal to ideology. Your topic is the Tutsi. 'shame that you have no facts to relate about them, hence, you are unable to *appeal to the facts*. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE]It is amazing that you state that I have not presented any facts. You must have a strange definition of the term "fact"; either it is this or you did not read the original post. I here provide excerts from it; please read it as a magazine article, rather than fast-scan it (I often do this fast-scan myself): [QUOTE] The Tutsi... began to arrive in their present lands in the A.D. 1300's or 1400's, coming from northeastern Africa, probably in search of grazing land for their herds. Hutu people (also called Bahutu) were already living in the area when the Tutsi arrived...Over the centuries, the two groups developed a common language and culture...--- World Book Online Reference Center [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] In all these kingdoms a population of Bantu-speaking peasants had been conquered in the 14th or 15th century by a cattle herding people, believed to have been of Nilotic language, perhaps from the Ethiopian area or Sudan. The result was a feudal aristocracy descended from the cattle herders, the Tutsi, and a peasantry descended from the original Bantu speakers, the Hutu. All the aristocrats now speak the language of the peasants. (This has some similarities with the experience of the English, invaded by French speaking Normans in 1066.) [b]The kingdoms had a system of officials and ceremonies similar to those of the Sidama kingdoms of modern Ethiopia. That is, the original cultural influences seem to have come partly from that area. It is also possible that some ceremonies have been passed on from ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs.[/b] -- http://www.angelfire.com/mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/africa/rwanda.html [/QUOTE][b]Today, the Tutsi, Twa, and the Hutu all speak Kinyarwanda; the Bantu-language of the Hutu majority. The fact that these ethnic groups share the same language is assumed to be the result of the Bahutu outnumbering the latter two groups.[/b] [QUOTE] (One theory about) The Origin of Batutsi...has it that the Batutsi are not indigenous to East Africa. And that their original homeland might have been either Somalis or Ethiopia or Egypt. [b]This theory is based, among other things on the fact that the Batutsi tend to resemble the Somali and Galla.[/b] -- http://www.ugandatravelguide.com/banyarwanda.html [/QUOTE]I have deliberately left out the reactionary notion which states that by citing Somali, Ethiopia, or Egypt as a point of origin means supporting the "Hamitic myth!" It's like, if an Oromo were to tell you that he's from Ethiopia, you're repeating the "Hamitic myth!" What nonsense, but if one wants to read the complete text, I have included the website in the above quote. ... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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