what's the diff. b/w hutus and tutsis??

Answer 1

Recent blood analysis (1987) suggests that they might originally come from different regions of Africa: the Hutu are possibly Bantu people who came southwards from Chad; the Tutsi were possibly originally from the Ethiopia region of East Africa. Nevertheless, over the centuries, there has been a high degree of intermarriage and interbreeding between the two groups, thus any arguments centering upon "race" or descent have long since ceased having any significant meaning.

Both groups speak the same language. While the Tutsi may well have originally been pastoralists and the Hutu agriculturalists, these differences are largely a thing of the past. Hutu can now own cattle and Tutsi farm. Belgian colonists removed formal political structural differences in culture. This suggests that culturally, there are few current differences.

The greatest difference in post-colonial Africa is the social positions of the two groups: the minority Tutsi as dominant; the majority Hutu subordinate. Given that there have been occurrences of "ethnicity switching" of people shifting from Hutu to Tutsi identity and vice versa, this suggests whatever the original meaning, the current real meaning of Hutu and Tutsi are mostly as "labels of convenience."

Answer 2

About the same as the difference between US people and Canadians.

Answer 3

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