For prosperity: The Other

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Let us note that the concept of 'the Other' is usually defined from the white, European point of view. Nowadays, however, as I walk through a village in the mountains of Ethiopia, a gang of children runs after me, pointing at me in amusement and shouting: 'Faranji! Faranji!' That means 'foreigner', 'other', because to them I am an Other.

In this sense we are all in the same boat. Every one of us living on this planet is an Other in the view of Others--I am in their view, and they are in mine.

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