Newsletter| How to build the nation: Isintu (value systems or sets of traditions, habits and rituals) may help citizens reach across race, gender & social classes to achieve sense of commonness; a bond to identify them as South Africans, writes Paul Tembe
How can these wounds, both literal and figurative, be remedied to birth self-aware social groups and people who are collectively confident to positively engage with forces of globalisation and the fourth industrial revolution; forces defined and determined from elsewhere?
Quite clearly, urgent action is necessary to bring back the comprehensive practice of ubuntu to assist in bringing back social solidarity in black communities and making whole those individuals lost in the maze of Western-designed consumer products, values and dreams. Such an understanding of ubuntu, exemplified above, came across as sanitised and a quick fix that could not undo centuries of dehumanisation, as characterised by apartheid.
The sense of equality and equanimity is internalised among Scandinavians using a variety of secular adages, but the Law of Jante has proven to be the most salient in setting boundaries and behavioural decorum among Scandinavians. Unlike their white counterparts, who are equally at home in all of the abovementioned private and public spaces – since they use their own languages , ethics and technology – the black races come across as interlopers, trespassers, unwanted and uninvited guests to a party whose rules and customs they are unfamiliar with.
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