The American anthropologist Bruce Mannheim notes that “#Quechua is the only #language centered on the other.” We can paraphrase this by saying that the #Aymara communication system is centered on #jiwasa, the “we-being” or “communal we”; this is why it is difficult to separate oneself from the other, the principle of jiwasa always includes even the enemy. cc: @friendsjournal #Quakers #Linguistics #FirstNations #NativeAmericans #History #Culture #Colonialism #Religion https://www.friendsjournal.org/jiwasa-the-communal-we/