National Identity
According Oxford English dictionary citizen is a legally recognized subject or national of a state, either native or naturalized while identity is the state of having unique identifying characteristics held by no other person or thing.
I have British citizenship but even after 500 years my descendants like African America or West Indies will heritage and identity less but they will never be English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish because identity/heritage comes from your father and grandfathers but you can get citizenship from any country you emigrated after few years. There is አግኣዚናዊ/ትግራዋይ, Oromo, Amhara, Saho, Kunama Afar, Gambela are identities but there is no so-called Eritrean or Ethiopian identity. Eritrea and Ethiopia are nation-states of many nations like UK is nation-state of four nations England, Welsh, North Ireland and Scotland.
The main unique identifying characteristics of አግኣዚናዊ/ትግራዋይ/ ትግርኛ identity are four that are
A, Ge’ez/Tigrigna language and Ge’ez alphabets,
B, The feeling we have for our land አግኣዚያን/ትግራይ (today’s Eritrea and Tigray),
C, Our history and
D, Our ታቦት or ኦሪታዊ religion.
No nation or ethnic has these characteristics and authentic feeling about these four unique identifying characteristics except አግኣዚናዊ/ትግራዋይ/ ትግርኛ.
Our Values
Aga’azian has legitimate and authentic raison D’être for its existence. The raison D’être for its existence can be explained by this sentence” You will be for me a kingdom of priests and holy nation. These are the words you are to speak to the Israelite” Exodus 19.6. Or the raison D’être of Aga’azian/Tigray for its existence is to serve and to learn. The life purpose of ትግራዋይ is to serve God, his family, his community, his country, humanity and to learn all his life in order to be competent and honest servant. Our happiness comes only when we make our God, our family, our community. Our country and humanity happy.
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https://agaiazian.org/
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Aga’azian has seven core strategic values that are
Oritism (Old testament)
the nuclear Family
Community
Education,
Rule of Law
Social justice
Freedom
If we want to survive, be very competitive and prosper as Ge’ez people and nation we have to adopt the doctrine of
A,-Reserving our ancient Culture and Identity means family, faith, vocation, and community. B,-Have resilient Economy means jobs, opportunity and prosperity
C,-Have a superior Army means pride, security and peace
D,-Have liberal democracy means freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of want and freedom from fear.
Yemane Barya (Left) and Okbagabir Ghebretensaie (Right)
Our culture and value is under serious threat and our youth is in deep cultural crisis as a result of a sense of identity and sense of belonging is extremely low more than any time in our entire history. Our youth they became an easy market and target for the expansionist ideology of American evangelicalism and sub-culture, expansionist European Catholicism and liberalism and the expansionist Wahhabist/Salafist tribal Arab ideology because of-
1, the PFDJ government misguided policy Universalism, internationalism and multiculturalism that come from greediness of the Eritrean ruling class desire to be in charge forever to protect its privileges, overstated delusional idealism, miscalculation and wrong analysis and from the European Catholics and protestant view point of our Ge’ez culture hate they have and on the origin of our Ge’ez identity. The systematically dehumanization and marginalization of our Ge’ez culture by ERTV and other government and so-called opposition media outlets, wrongheaded cadres, feminists etc, lack of vision and leadership in culture and history. Isaias Afewerki and his cronies has defined our national identity by so-called nine ethnic groups not by our Ge’ez history and values that make us who we are.
2, The selfish and self-centered western culture and values that coming through western cultural and intelligence institutions like NGO, media, corrupt commercialized western churches through their Eritrean agents and ERTV.
3, From the backward Salafi-Wahhabism and Arab nationalism that are coming through Arabs cultural and intelligence institutions like media, religion, their Eritrean agents and ERTV.
To Tackle This Threat We Will
1, Geez culture will be Eritrea’s official national culture. Tigrigna/Tigre will be Eritrean national language.
2, We will use Geez numerals not Latin numerals.
3 We will promote traditional Eritrean Ge’ez names.
4, We will write Ge’ez 3000 year history
5, We will incorporate all our values and ethics in our national curriculum and media work.
6, Teaching and practicing Ge’ez manner and gesture will be mandatory in private and government school curriculum and work place.
7, Government will finance Eritrean Orthodox Church and Eritrean Islamic religion (mufti)
8, We will promote entrepreneurship culture to make Eritrea a country of enterprises and innovations.
9, We will promote our entrepreneurial culture
10, We will promote our Ge’ez military culture.
11, We will promote our heroes by teaching their history, by erecting monuments, by printing their picture in our bills and coins (money) by naming our institutions, streets etc after them.
12, Mass service on Saturday and Sunday and major Orthodox Church holidays will air by mass media.
13, We will support and protect the ethnic minority culture.
14, Prostitution will be illegal.
15 We will ban promotion of alcohol, cigarette, and pork in our media.
16 We will ban by law all western sub-cultural products that undermine our values, culture and ethics.