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How to maintain individual identity while practicing ubuntu

My grandmother always says 'a person is a person through other persons' but I feel like I am disappearing into everyone else's needs and have no life of my own.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The communal self is overwhelming the individual self to an unsustainable degree.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African ubuntu and intergenerational responsibility?”

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