Sunday, December 12, 2004

Criminality and Farengis

Criminality and Farengis:

There is no criminality in Ethiopia you can walk about the country at 3.00 am without any fear, the only place were you will find pickpockets is in Merkato, Addis Ababa, and they never are aggressive.
But the other side of the coin is that anything you buy or pay, the price is raised because you are a “farengi”, you will get used to this word, anyone of white colour is a farengi, do not be put down, by this, even if it annoying, for the Ethiopians differently from other African countries there is no hate for the white man, perhaps because they were not colonized, the farengi is for them pure, good, rich, (that is why they raise the price), and the solution for every problem, of course this after a while is rather annoying.