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"South African philosopher Augustine Shutte quoted an Xhosa proverb `umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu´ (which translates to `a person is a person through persons´) to provide an explanation of the African interpretation of the relationship between individual, family, and community, which relates to the communality implied by the Rastafari use of `InI´ :
`This (proverb) is the Xhosa expression of a notion that is common to all African languages and traditional cultures. ... (It) is concerned both with the peculiar interdependence of persons on others for the exercise, development and fulfilment of their powers that is recognised in African traditional thought, and also with the understanding of what it is to be a person that underlies this. ... In European philosophy of whatever kind, the self is always envisaged as something `inside´ a person, or at least as a kind of container of mental properties and powers. In African thought it is seen as `outside,´ subsisting in relationship to what is other, the natural and social environment. In fact the sharp distinction between self and world, a self that controls and changes the world and is in some sense `above it,´ this distinction so characteristic of European philosophy, disappears. Self and world are united and intermingle in a web of reciprocal relations.""
- Sis Dorothy.
`This (proverb) is the Xhosa expression of a notion that is common to all African languages and traditional cultures. ... (It) is concerned both with the peculiar interdependence of persons on others for the exercise, development and fulfilment of their powers that is recognised in African traditional thought, and also with the understanding of what it is to be a person that underlies this. ... In European philosophy of whatever kind, the self is always envisaged as something `inside´ a person, or at least as a kind of container of mental properties and powers. In African thought it is seen as `outside,´ subsisting in relationship to what is other, the natural and social environment. In fact the sharp distinction between self and world, a self that controls and changes the world and is in some sense `above it,´ this distinction so characteristic of European philosophy, disappears. Self and world are united and intermingle in a web of reciprocal relations.""
- Sis Dorothy.
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Vi ær precis liak beroende uta vvarandra i væstværlden som de ær i Afrika, de flesta hær uppe førstår det bara inte.
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hoppas allt är niceness med er i det kalla norge och att de positiva vibesen kröner eran vardag.
Kärlek och vägledning.
Jag ønskar dig detsamma, och vill bestæmt hævda att din lilla hælsning helt klart kontribuerar till de posetiva vibsen.
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