These are things never done in the Westerners culture. A visitor to someones house with the exception of freinds, is always met with the question what can I do for you?. This attitude to see people not as themselves but as agents for some particular function either to ones disadvantage or advantages is foreign to us. We are not a suspicious race. We believe in the inherent goodness of man. We enjoy man for himself. We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life. Hence in all we do we always place Man first and hence all our action is usually joint community oriented action rather than the individualism which is the hallmark of the capitalist approach. We always refrain from using people as stepping stones. Instead we are prepared to have a much slower progress in an effort to make sure that all of us are marching to the same tune.~Steve Biko on African culture
Posted on: Sat, 10 May 2014 05:48:45 +0000
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