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"Ubuntu" means
"I am what I am because of who we all are."*
In 2006 at the Festival of Peace, in Florianopolis, South Brazil, the
journalist and philosopher Lia Diskin related a beautiful story of a
tribe in Africa she called Ubuntu.
She explained how an anthropologist had been studying the habits and
customs of that tribe, and when he finished his work, had to wait for
some time for transportation that would take him to the airport back
home. He'd always been surrounded by children of the tribe, so to help
pass the time before he left, he proposed a game for the children, which
he thought was harmless.
He bought lots of candy and sweets in the city, and put everything in a
basket with a beautiful ribbon. He placed it under a solitary tree, and
then called the kids together. He drew a line on the ground and
explained that they should wait behind the line for his signal. And that
when he said "Go", they should rush over to the basket, and the first to
arrive there would win all the candies.
When he said "Go!", instantly all the children held each other's hands
and ran off towards the tree as a group. Once there, they simply shared
the candy with each other and happily ate it.
The anthropologist was very surprised and asked them why they had all
gone together, especially if the first one to arrive could have won
everything in the basket - all the sweets.
They simply responded: "That's Ubuntu. How could one of us be happy if
all the others were sad?"
He was dumbfounded! For months and months he'd been studying the tribe,
and yet he'd not really understood their essence, otherwise he would
never have suggested the competition...
Ubuntu means "I am what I am because of who we all are."
As described by Nelson Mandela
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HED4h00xPPA
Ubuntu wiki: --- http://bit.ly/6yxL
one of numerous posts of the story: --- http://bit.ly/GUo5QX - in Portuguese
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