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How to teach communal values in individualistic environments

My eight-year-old daughter keeps asking why she has to share her toys with her cousins when they visit and I struggle to explain Ubuntu to a child who goes to American school.

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The parent must translate ancestral philosophies into language and concepts a culturally hybrid child can understand and embrace.

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