It's always interesting—and startling—when you come across the actual name of a philosophy (or perhas a better word is "ideology") for something that seems so simple.

I was perusing the 'Net the other day and came across the Wikipedia article for ubuntu, an African ethic or ideology that emphasizes "humanity towards others". The distribution of Linux called Ubuntu is actually based on this ideology. Roughly translated, ubuntu means "I am because we are."

I was shocked almost. An idea that emphasizes humanity through collaboration with others—what an idea! Sure, in the western world, we have the idea of the "Golden rule" and all that, but I don't think we have anything quite like this. To quote the article:

I think it's an ideology that would be worth emphasizing more in other non-African cultures. Check it out! It looks fairly interesting.

yes, that would be a good idea to emphasize on. hm....interesting

That's an actual word? I always wondered where they came up with the name for the OS. Nice! XD

Yeah there's a lot of other ideas that we should consider in the western world.