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In reply to the discussion: UBUNTU [View all]1monster
(11,012 posts)70. The AGE of UBUNTU
http://www.harisingh.com/UbuntuAge.htm
Africans have a thing called ubuntu. It is about the essence of being human, it is part of the gift that Africa will give the world. It embraces hospitality, caring about others, being willing to go the extra mile for the sake of another. We believe that a person is a person through other persons, that my humanity is caught up, bound up, inextricably, with yours. When I dehumanize you, I inexorably dehumanize myself. The solitary human being is a contradiction in terms. Therefore you seek to work for the common good because your humanity comes into its own in community, in belonging. -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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In America someone could come stumbling off of the desert and a clerk will charge them for water.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2013
#12
Its amazing that especially many Americans forget even basic things of humanity and civilization
AZ Progressive
Jun 2013
#15
Aggressive, unethical people are the most dangerous people to a civilization
AZ Progressive
Jun 2013
#26
Awsesome pic! The story is lovely, though it doesn't seem to be verified. According to this
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jun 2013
#69
Saw that site already. It doesn't address the validity of the story, which I questioned. The
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jun 2013
#71
I do. I dislike being sold a concept with a lie. It's unnecessary and insulting, and it creates and
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jun 2013
#73
Well, then, prove it false or prove it true. I just posted something that I thought
1monster
Jun 2013
#76
If you thought it a parable, why was your first response to my questioning its veracity to
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jun 2013
#77
D&S K. You could use Ubuntu yourself. I'm not in the mood for people who argue
1monster
Jun 2013
#78