Jubilee are sweating.... wakisii are normally angry... now they are VERY angry...
Why do people assume that? I'm not an angry person. My family isnt angry. Hasira ya mkisii na mmeru...ive always heard that. But none of my Meru friends are angry.
OK, perhaps not angry, but very serious. Hawacheki ovyo ovyo. And like windy says their temper is second to none.
But sio kwamboka ubaya, Kisii are my in-laws... And I respect them very much. They're my people
Lol! I'm not the tiniest bit offended. I'm fascinated by groups of people, I regret not pursuing anthropology due to the narrow views on "respectable careers" in the quarters where I grew up. The Omogusii is not an important part of my identity, its not that serious. I just know more about them than others by accident of birth. But I find the widespread sterotypes interesting just because I don't see them in my experience. I thing ekegusii is an angry-sounding language
and someone with a heavy accent will transfer this angry-sounding thing to other languages like English and Kiswahili. Thats my hypothesis for why so many believe this. I used to listen to my mom talk to her brothers when I was small and couldn't understand the language, and it always sounded like a weird fight. No matter what they were discussing.
The heavy gesturing with hands, head-nods, the whole torso plus the sound comes across angry/passionate unless a person's personality is very subdued.