An anthropologist showed a game to the children of an African tribe ...

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49. Nice story but it's also tingling my antiracist Spidey-Senses in a not good way.

This sounds amazingly similar in tone and style to the supposed "Native-American two wolves inside us" story which is not American Indian in origin but was first introduced to the world by Billy Graham.

Here's why this sounds like a BS story to me:

1) Who is this anthropologist?
2) When did this happen?
3) Where did this happen? Africa is pretty freaking big and I'm pretty freaking sure not every tribe practices Ubuntu.
4) Magical Negros who, via the simplistic minds of children, embrace an eternal wisdom.
5) Who brings the wisdom to the world? The (assumedly) white anthropologist.

I am a librarian and my research skills are awesome. While this story seems to correctly offer one definition of ubuntu (via it's most prevalent use in South Africa), I couldn't find any trace of this story being true.

Not an attack on you, elleng, for sharing. Just encouraging us all to think more critically about how we share information, and what, if any, implicit biases we bring to the table.