I found this post because this story is going around social networks, and I was looking to find out if it is based in fact. Let me tell you a story… There was an anthropologist who had been studying the habits and culture of a remote African tribe. Then I was saddened that people look for racism in everything they look at.
I’d give candy to my children… and I would not only see the happiness in their face… they would say thank you, AND give me a blessing… a blessing. The messages we are raised with help determine the lives we live. I could tell you my own stories of children in Botswana or Angola who found ways to share a candy bar or a bag of m&m’s in the same way. Ubuntu Story – An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe. I gave them a bag of skittles and they managed to share with all of the kids who were gathered outside of my house. The message came first.I’m don’t realy think it’s racist, but there do seem to be myths going around about “An African tribe.”I also saw this story in Facebook, and was trying to find out if it was true.As a former Peace Corps Volunteer living in Mali, West Africa… I can totally see how African children could behave this way. The Ubuntu Story. He placed a basket of fruits near a tree. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats. And made them stand 100 metres away. The children responded: “Ubuntu. When the anthropologist said “go”, the children had to run to the tree and the first one to get there could have all the candy to him/herself.So the children all lined up and when the anthropologist said “go”, all of the children took each other by the hand and ran together towards the tree. How could any one of us be happy if all the others were sad?”Ubuntu is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up as Ubuntu brings to Pakistan for the first time, the Finnish early years model which is considered the best in the world as is their education system in general – Finland ranks number 1 worldwide in the recently published Happiness Index for 2018 & 2019 . ... “Ubuntu, how can one of us be ... What a great lesson to be learned from this story! He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that who ever got there first won the sweet fruits. Please do not take away from African culture that gives birth to this story and who has given us this precious understanding of communal life and interrelated humanity. So he decided to play a little game with them. This isn’t a true account. If we love and care for each other we will have a very happy world.Having lived in South Africa for over a decade -worked with Xhosa and Zulu people along with many others from various other tribes, I can tell you with certainty the story is true as are many others just like it. Mythology should be honest that it is a mythology. It’s powerful – it’s life changing – and soul renewing. In other words, you can be self serving by serving others. However, ubuntu is unique to Africa and while similar philosophies exist in other cultures, they each have their own stories and place. In Africa, as in many cultures, a story is told to convey a truth and that truth has many degrees.

I can’t find any evidence of that.It’s too bad the inherent racism of this story undermines the good message. glamourizing it by connecting it to an idealized vision of “africa” and “africans” is racist.Hmmm…I never saw this as racist at all. I found this post for the same reason.

wow. the idea of “ubuntu” is not an african construct, it’s a human construct; you see it across cultures (ahimsa, ren, ohana, mitayuke osayin, the golden rule). I never saw any racism until I read the first post here.