I am because we are

Ubuntu

An anthropologist proposed a game 

to children in an African tribe. 

He put a basket full of fruit near a tree 

and told the children that whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. 

When he told them to run, 

they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats.

When he asked them why they had run like that when one could have had all the fruits for himself, 

they said, "UBUNTU, 

how can one of us be happy 

if all the other ones are sad?" 

("UBUNTU" in the Xhosa culture means: "I am because we are.")