Technology has changed and continues to change many things in our lives and human beings themselves have changed the way they percieve the world and the natural human behaviour.
In the oldern days UBUNTU was every African's daily bread and it was highly appreciated and valued, but today you become kind (one of the core values of UBUNTU) to everyone-your kindness is thrown back at your face. Generalization has become common in the current generation to the point that "one man's sin is everyman's sin".
The tip of an iceberg:
A man kindly greets a lady in a taxi and the lady responds with a "no-nonsense" negative attitude, because it is believed that if a man becomes kind to a woman and a woman respond nicely-the man's next move is asking for a date or cellphone numbers. An innocent energetic young man sees an old lady struggling with heavy plastics full of groceries outside a shopping mall in town and he offers assistance, then the old lady shouts "go away, you criminal, bloody oppotunist". The following day the very same young man comes across another struggling granny and he doesn't bother offering assistance, then all of a sudden the whole town is talking about the "democratic, immoral and ill-discipline youth".
You are privileged and you decide to give some clothes or food to someone less privileged that you (UBUNTU), your kindness is thrown back at your face as you get this response "who said I need your help, your bloody show off". Everyday, people complain about the so called "extinction of community heros", yet when one tries to become one-s/he is the bad guy. UBUNTU and community heros still exist and they are in our own back yards, it is just that the shades in everyone's eyes are too much dim that we are unable to notice and appreciate such HEROZ.
Take off your dim shades everyone, so you may not shoot the mediator instead of shooting the perpetrator.
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