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It takes a village?

Not true, of course. The foreign devil is much stronger than that. Most of them are at any rate. Anyways, my American professor used to say something along these lines every time he refused one of our offers of help or assistance:

“You Chinese are always ready to help. If you ask them for a finger, they’ll give six legs, two of their own, the other four borrowed from the village.”

That’s the idea of the village, one’s community and one’s society.

So, in short, whenever you hear a politician, almost always a politician, say again that it takes a village to do something you know they’re merely saying it takes the whole society to do it. In other words, it takes more than the effort of a single individual.

The erstwhile village can be a city, a country or the whole world.

All right, media examples:

1. The president announced today an important initiative, called America Reads. This initiative is aimed at making sure all children can read well by the third grade. It will require volunteers, but I know there are thousands and thousands of Americans will volunteer to help every child read well.

For Bill and me, there has been no experience more challenging, more rewarding and more humbling than raising our daughter. And we have learned that to raise a happy, healthy, and hopeful child, it takes a family. It takes teachers. It takes clergy.

It takes business people. It takes community leaders. It takes those who protect our health and safety. It takes all of us. Yes, it takes a village. And it takes a president.