Afrosentrisme

Afrosentrisme
Socially, Rastafari is a response to racist negation of black people as experienced in Jamaica, when in the 1930s, black people are at the lowest level of social order, while the white people and their religion (mostly Christian) are on top. Prompts Marcus Garvey that black people are proud of themselves and their warnisan inspired the Rastas to embrace all things African. They teach that they were brainwashed while in captivity to deny everything that is related to blacks and Africa. They turned their racist image and consider it primitive and direct from the forest and instead embrace it - even though it's the opposite - and make these concepts as part of African culture that they consider to have been stolen from them when they were brought from Africa in slave ships . Close to nature and to the African savanna and lions, in spirit, if not in body, is their central ideas about African culture.
Living close to nature and become a part of nature is seen as African. African approach to "live close to nature" is seen in the dreadlocks, ganja (marijuana), Ital food, and in all aspects of life sense. They loathe the approach (or, as they see it, non-approach) against modern life for being unnatural and excessively objective and rejecting subjectivity. Rastas say that scientists try to discover how the world looks from the outside, while the approach is to see life from the inside out. Individuals get a very important position in Rastafari, and every Rasta must seek the truth for himself.
Identify other important Afrosentris is the color red, gold, and green, the color of the flag of Ethiopia. These colors are the symbol of the Rastafari movement, and the sense of loyalty towards Haile Selassie, Ethiopia, and Africa and not to any modern country in which they happen to live. These colors are frequently seen on clothing and other decorations. Red symbolizes the blood of the martyrs, green symbolizes the vegetation of Africa, while gold symbolizes wealth and prosperity Africa has to offer. (Conversely, some Ethiopian scholars claim that the colors are derived from an old saying that the belt of the Virgin Mary is the rainbow, and that the color red, gold, and green symbol of this.)
Many of the followers of Rastafari attempt to learn Amharic, which they consider to be the original language, because this is the language that is used Haile Selassie I, and to identify themselves as Ethiopian-though in practice, most Rastas continue to speak English or their native languages. There is also a reggae songs written in Amharic.