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I think we Ethiopians are one of the top most people who give hands to others much readily to greet someone and show our politeness and respect to others. Greeting without stretching the hand for a handshake feels like that we were not polite to those we met.

I think now the practice will be reconsidered in the post corona-virus era, as this special episode will also leave its marks profoundly even after it is already gone long ago.


This will be part of the corona history, I think.

The following internet entry on HANDSHAKE HISTORY states that handshake might have started in ancient Greece and from there spread to the rest of Europe but today many Europeans don't practice handshake as much as the Ethiopians. I am not sure about when we might have overtaken the practice from them and show it more than those who could have invented it. But many things claimed to have been invented in Europe even when they were not today.

Anyway, it could be reasonable to reconsider our practice in the interest of public health and go back to our own old tradition "እጅ እንንሳ" "እጅ ከመስጠት"

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