[Ailist] RE: Ubuntu

[Donald Austin]

Hi All,

The recent references to "Ubuntu" have caught my eye, partly because someone
from South Africa once presented an association with Ubuntu that moved me.

I am not sure (I don't know, I am just not sure) that all the references to
Ubuntu have been accurate on this list.  I am convinced that it is indeed a
wonderful cultural aspect that we would be so much better if we had Ubuntu
incorporated in our culture.  

I personally am disturbed, though, if and when we grab onto something like
this and interpret it according to our own desires and beliefs.   I think
some of this may be happening.  

Don

 
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:43:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Maura J. Fulton" <outerislandgirl at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Ailist] UBUNTU
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> Hi Marge and all,
> 
> I also appreciate and have used/celebrated the concept
> of "ubuntu", a Zulu proverb meaning, "I am a person
> through other people. My humanity is tied to yours."
> It means to me that people work together for a common
> cause...we are because of those who went before
> us...humanity, generosity, sharing. I have also used
> this quote from Archbishop Tutu's book, "No Future
> Without Forgiveness"--
> 
> "[Ubuntu] means that they are generous, hospitable,
> friendly, caring and compassionate. They share what
> they have. It also means my humanity is caught up, is
> inextricably bound up, in theirs. We belong in a
> bundle of life. We say, 'a person is a person through
> other people'. It is not 'I think therefore I am'. It
> says rather: 'I am human because I belong. I
> participate, I share. A person with ubuntu is open and
> available to others, does not feel threatened that
> others are able and good; for he or she has a proper
> self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she
> belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when
> others are humiliated or diminished, when others are
> tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less
> than who they are."
> 
> Peace,
> 
> Maura J. Fulton
> Executive Director
> Peace Corps Encore!
> www.peacecorpsencore.org
> 
> 
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> > Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:12:57 -0400
> > From: Marge Schiller <MargeSchiller at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [Ailist] Re:  Clinton Global Initiative
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> > Dear Denise,
> >
> > Thanks for reminding me of UMBUTU. Last year I was
> > looking for a word
> > that spoke of appreciation of others. I figured that
> > Shadenfreude
> > (taking pleasure in someone else's  pain) had to
> > have a contrasting
> > appreciative and flourishing word that spoke of
> > pleasure in someone
> > else's pleasure. "I am because you are" comes pretty
> > close.
> > What a wonderful and useful word from South Africa!
> >
> > Marge
> >
> > Marjorie Schiller,PhD
> > margeschiller at yahoo.com
> >
> >
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