An anthropologist studying the customs of an African tribe put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the children that the first to reach the tree would win all the fruit. Given the signal, all the children held hands and ran at the same time! Then they sat under the tree to enjoy the food.
When the anthropologist asked why they had acted in this way, they replied: "Ubuntu, my friend: how can one of us be happy, if all the others are sad?"
And how could all the rest of us be happy, if one of us is sad? Or, as we say in Rural Libraries: "What if you were us?"
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