I was installing a new OS on my machine, chose Linux for that, while I was comparing two different distributors: SUSE and UBUNTU , some definition caught my eyes, it's the definition of the word “UBUNTU”.
It is a very nice principle, so I quote here below.
Don’t panic, it is not a technical definition, it’s rather about a new perspective to humanity, a look that came from the ZULU people, the people whom we for a long time considered as savages and barbarians’ model, but it turned up to show that they have a very global, totalitarian, wider and advanced view to humanity, and the place of the individual man among the whole human being.
And here is the quotation:
Ubuntu is a South African ethical ideology focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word comes from the Zulu and Xhosa languages.
Ubuntu is seen as a traditional African concept, is regarded as one of the founding principles of the new republic of South Africa, and is connected to the idea of an African Renaissance.....
A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is "humanity towards others".
Another translation could be:
"The belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".....
"A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of 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."....
-Archbishop Desmond Tutu-
11 February 2010
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