Ku Karati · Hospitality
A custom of showing hospitality to guests, where the host family provides food, drink, and shelter to their visitors. The guests are treated with respect and kindness, and are made to feel welcome and at home.
The names it answers to
- Ku KaratiXitsonga
What happens
- 1
Welcome
The guests are warmly welcomed by the host family, and are offered a place to sit and rest.
- 2
Food and Drink
The host family provides food and drink to the guests, and ensures that they are well taken care of.
- 3
Conversation
The host family engages in conversation with the guests, and shows interest in their lives and experiences.
WHY
The custom is done to show respect and kindness to guests, and to make them feel welcome and at home.
It is also a way of promoting social cohesion and community building.
WHYs are plural by design: your family may hold another. Dispute or add below; disagreement is recorded, never erased.
Who practices it
Provenance
- generated: 2026-07-05
- source: LLM aggregation pipeline (llama-3.3-70b-versatile via Groq, 2026-07-05); unverified, awaiting community affirmation.
This entry is a hypothesis awaiting its people. If your family does it differently, that difference is exactly what we want recorded.
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