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Shona Definition
Mumwe nomumwe anotofanira kuzvionera nhamo dzake. Kana vamwe vachiona munhu ari munhamo havagoni kuzvipfuvisa zvokuti vangaramba kuzvidyira zvavo sadza mudzimba dzavo.
English Translation
Each person has to bear their own troubles; what strikes someone else lands as remotely as if it had struck a log. Onlookers are not moved enough by another's hardship to go without their own food at home.
Cultural Context
“Used to observe that suffering is treated as a private matter, and that people rarely grasp another's misfortune until they have lived through it themselves.”
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