The international financial transfer system PaySend, which was developed by and for Ana’esia/Africa, has a category for “purpose of transfer” that is “support of family or friends”, with a commensurate category of “relationship” of “family or friends”.
That set of categories of friend is absent from the western options I have used ...
In my opinion, that shows a small mindedness/narrow bounded caring that is indicative of western cultures lacking Ana’esia/Africa’s sense of Ubuntu. (It is also symptomatic of western arrogance and bias that Wikipedia requires Ubuntu to have the descriptor philosophy, whereas a recent programming language is allowed to exist without a descriptor - it should be the other way round, in my opinion.)
As with the Wiradjuri word yindyamarra, the translation of the word Ubuntu and its earlier words in other African languages is generally oversimplified.
Yindyamarra is often reduced to “respect”, whereas it is more like the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism - see here, here, and here.
Similarly Ubuntu is often simplified to “compassion”, but it encompasses a whole community-based way of thinking about wellness for all that the west has edged towards with things like universal health care, wellbeing budgets, and consideration of UBI.
The west has a long way to go to catch up ...
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