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Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed
ManicMechanic and other readers sent in news of a tribe of aboriginal people from the border of Peru and Brazil that has been photographed by helicopter for the first time. The images show huts in a village and people in red body paint shooting arrows at the helicopter. The outfit that released the photos, Survival International, works to end illegal logging in the rainforest in order to protect the uncontacted tribes living there. They estimate that 100 uncontacted groups exist worldwide, about half of them in the Amazon basin.
They should stop the logging in the Amazon for the good of the whole planet, not just because a handful of greasy, inbred savages live there.
Is it just me, or do some of those "tribesmen" look like they're wearing colonial Spanish armour? Looks like pictures taken from a movie set or as a joke to me.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Helicopter versus spearmen?
The f#*&ing spearmen.
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quick, drop some XO's for them, THEY NEEDS THE INTERNETS
like phosphorescent desert buttons singing one familiar song
I like how Slashdot linked to the smallest picture available. The actual pictures are surprisingly good.
I for one would have loved to have been able to hear and understand the conversation that took place among that tribe after the helicopter passed over.
Those cameras are watching everyone now!
Someone setup a jungle expedition. Those tribesmen need tinfoil hats!
That helicopter is probably some sort of god or devil beast to that tribe now... Thats how religion works you know. You see something you don't understand, (try to) kill it, worship it.
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http://www.ctv.ca/gallery/html/tribe_080530/photo_0.html
...until one of the cameramen modified the ole 'got yer nose!' trick to the less popular 'got yer soul!' trick using his camera.
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted." -Groucho Marx
Actually, I'd guess more like Civ 3. That was the one with the antitank spearmen. And mighty cavemen in sabertooth-skin loincloths, cleaving your tank in twain with their mighty stone axe.
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Here are similar pictures taken by a plane instead of a helicopter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1022822/Incredible-pictures-Earths-uncontacted-tribes-firing-bows-arrows.html
"Members of one of the worlds last uncontacted tribes have been spotted and photographed from the air near the Brazil-Peru border." ... "said uncontacted tribes expert Jose Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior."
Grats Jose, you just worked yourself out of a job. Some expert you are!
A small Peruvian tribe has taught you: Ceremonial Burial.
Or maybe
A small Chilean tribe has given you: Skilled Warrior.
Wow!
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Sirst Fighting?
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Now that we have captured their souls, what do we do with them?
So they are going to be "protected" from contamination.
Yes I know that many tribes have suffered when the ran into civilized peoples but I wonder how they would feel about it if they knew.
Yes your child could have been saved with just a few pills but we didn't want to contaminate you.
Yes you could see what some of the lights in the sky really do look like.
You could meet people from far across the sea and you two could fly through the air.
But we don't want to contaminate you.
I wonder if they where given a choice what they would decide? Maybe it is wrong to not give them the choice.
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Reminded me of a Penny-Arcade strip for Empire Earth 2
http://www.empireearth2.com/images/pennyarcade.jpg
was hilarious.
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When Jim Elliot flew a small, single engine yellow airplane over an "uncontacted" tribe, they began to call it a big bee. I quoted uncontacted because they had contacted other tribes, to kill them.
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In reading this story, all I could think about is that their status as "uncontacted" is kind of a catch-22.
In today's world, even in Peru/Brazil, you have to try REALLY HARD to stay "uncontacted", actively avoiding any contact. Hard enough that, as a tribe, you probably wouldn't expend the resources to do it unless you felt like you had a really good reason to.
Which begs the question: what is their reason? Are they just really paranoid? Or is it something akin to The Village (SPOILERS AHEAD)---
---and the tribe "elders" really know exactly what's going on out there and really want everyone to stay away from it all?
It would of been fascinating to see them try and skin, roast and eat the helicopter after they brought it down. That would be the mother of all cooking fires.
Hey, isn't flying over with a helicopter, a blatant violation of the Prime Directive?
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Is that Jeff Probst there in the black? This must be the super secret filming of the next survivor!
Let's not forget that these people represent a kind of norm. This biological form that we take right now more or less developed during the long Stone Age -- i.e. most of our unwritten history is in that way of life. It means that the roots of our culture, and perhaps the way our brains are organised, draw sustenance from this long period.
We need these people to be just who they are, unchanged, for our own understanding of ourselves.
The problem is the ethics of contact: do we withhold the benefits of civilization? Is modernization a fair process? It's easy to dismiss a preservationist approach as romanticizing the savage, from your abstracted armchair reality. But, live with tribal peoples for a while, and you realize that short of modern medicine and food surpluses, not only is it not so bad, it has distinct advantages as a lifestyle, and is not so different from our own.
Whatever. I expect them to be overrun, poisoned, shot, and assimilated, then held up as an example of the superiority of civilization.
Damn those pesky terrorists
Has the MPAA filed a lawsuit yet? Their red body paint totally infringes upon several trademarks connected to Indiana Jones, as is the whole "being an Indian".
... for OOXML to be accepted as an ISO standard. Their spearman ooops, spokesman said, "though MSOffice does not support our language yet, I am sure they will soon because they gave us a picture of King Ballmer, and 24 glass beads".
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...welcome our new spear-wielding overlords.
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You can only imagine a discovery like this is the sort of thing every Anthropologist dreams of. Finding some primitive culture, previously untouched by the outside world. Making contact with the people for the first time. Then showing them the power of the machine gun and overthrowing their chief, then ruling the tribe with an iron fist.
I have nothing compelling to say
they dropped a Coke bottle from the helicopter and it happened to land within the tribe area. ("The Gods Must Be Crazy")
These tribespeople are giving the rest of our species a valuable lesson in how to greet the aliens when they land.
None of this kumbaiyaa stuff that lets sinister aliens into our arms before we know they'll enslave us. Throw some spears at them to see how serious they are about making contact. If they aren't sophisticated enough to anticipate our violent reaction to their sudden appearance, they won't have anything worth learning that we can't get from just capturing some of their spacecraft. If they're really that superior, they'll take it in stride and calm us down.
And if they're really evil, we'll at least have a chance to fight them off, rather than falling for some kind of "To Serve Man" conjob.
That's exactly how this Amazon contact will play out. Why shouldn't we expect at least as much from our even more distant cousins when they arrive at our little backwater planet?
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Just drop a Coke bottle with a GPS receiver or a mini cam. Let's see how they react to it.
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Actually, it does work like that sometimes.
E.g., "cargo cults." In the whole island-hopping in the Pacific, ground troops in the jungle were sometimes resupplied by airplanes paradropping crates of food and equipment. Well, some airplanes dropped their cargo wrong (remember, it was before GPS), some ran into the enemy and had to eject their cargo to escape, etc. At any rate, some of that cargo fell near some local tribes.
And the funny thing is, some of those actually started worshipping the big birds who dropped all that good stuff. And prayed that they'd return and bring them more gifts. And when that failed to happen, they built wooden airplanes and sometimes (those who were close enough to an airstrip to notice that those winged gods landed there and unloaded stuff) built whole wooden mock-ups of airstrips including the barracks and buildings around them. Some went to such effort as to even build mock-ups of the other stuff they saw there, such as "radios" with "headphones" made out of coconuts. Some stood guard or conducted drills with sticks instead of weapons, because they assumed it was some ritual to make the big winged gods come land there.
It wasn't the first time. The first well documented cargo cult, and undisputedly a cargo cult, was from 1919 from Papua. Those guys believed in the coming of a great ghost steamer to bring them tinned goods, tools, and stuff like that. That was their "messiah", so to speak. Furthermore, that they can communicate with the ghostly ancestors by raising and lowering a flag, on the flagpole a mocked-up office. Essentially they had looked at the stuff the Europeans did in ports, and how they communicated with their ships, and built a whole cult and ceremony around it.
But we have documented instances of such stuff from the 19'th century too. E.g., the Tuka Movement in the Fiji islands. On the whole it was openly hostile to the Europeans, and preaching the extinction or enslavement of Europeans by the natives, and using such visual metaphors as fattening a white pig representing the Europeans to slaughter it when the ancients return. But funnily enough, it also incorporated a lot of stuff which was mocking what the Europeans did. E.g., military parades, blessing water for their religious ceremonies, etc.
So, well, I don't care whether you find that outlook disgusting or not, but we have plenty of documented cases where it worked literally like the GP post said. If historical perspective offends you, so be it.
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what they really need are diseases, taxes, weapons, bureaucracy, building permits, zoning laws, religion, and gay marriage. I staggers the imagination that they've survived this long without it! can these by dropped by helicopter? --edfardos
"Previously uncontacted planet photographed"
Reading the article made me think if in the grand scheme of things, are we are the equivalent of these people to sufficiently advanced alien civilizations? "Spears against helicopters" might as well me like one of our Raptors going up against alien recon craft. Like this tribe, we'll probably think they're hostile (our literature, films are filled with alien war themes) but for all we know, they aren't really. It would probably be hubris to think something that advanced would go out of their way to invade us. (Like sending modern marines with automatic weapons against spear-wielding people, in terms of scale.)
Arrghh. Too much Civ!!! (One more turn...)
There's already over a brazilian people in India.
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I heartily agree. We should keep these tribes entirely ignorant of the outside world until such a time as gold prospectors and loggers come to kill them. Afterwards we should bemoan the fact that they were helpless and unprotected from disease and exploitation.
The amount of sheer arrogance in the article is amazing. Who are we to decide to permanently isolate these people and leave them so vulnerable? These are creatures at a zoo living their primitive lives for our amusement and study.. they are people who deserve the right to decide their own fate and be offered the tools to surivive once civilization inevitably arrives.
Apple announces new iPhone agreement with remote Amazonian tribe.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a difficult battle. - Plato
About a lost tribe in the Amazon, covered by National Geographic
later to find out they ended up being a bunch of locals who were hired to portray as an isolated non-contacted tribe? Essentially a hoax?
The way these things generally work is the term "uncontacted" is used to generate readership rather than reflect reality.
The more accurate phrase is minmal contact. Please remember, they share a forest with other tribes. There's interaction of all kinds.
In this case, geography minimized contact with the industrialized world. Those "uncontacted" tribes probably have at least one person that's gone all the way to the big city wherever it is thought to be.
Also note they are being pushed out by deforestation efforts, so you bet they've been on the wrong side of weapons and dealt with the industrialized world.
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I don't see why such isolated people are considered as something to protect.
These people are literally still in the stone ages, and some "enlightened" folks want to keep them that way. I don't understand this mentality. If we discovered these kinds of people living in the United States, we'd be clamoring for them to get educated and make something of themselves.
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I heard anthropologist try to establish that "normal" tribal war-death rate was a fairly constant number over much of the world, and in psuedo-tribal situations like inner city gangs.
I've heard that this rate has generally decreased in the modern era. Its different when have large organizations like nation-states and technical weapons. Although side effects like starvation and disease jack up deaths. The US has never had a sustained one percent death rate - imaging if three million every year were dying in formal war or terrorism. Maybe a few, inquent "big ones" could occur to bring society to its long-term average.
We need to drop tools, internet, entertainment, etc... to civilize them thats more consumers for the big corps.
Err, I mean for the betterment of mankind.
It's now unnecessary--
the camera already stole their souls, and they don't need the internet to do that . . .
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"Someone needs to let these people know about the upcoming new iPhone." -John Gruber
These people see a big flying thing in the sky, and what's the first thing they do? They shoot at it. So, they can't hurt the helicopter, but they don't know that and their aggressive intent is clear.
The point is that the notion that we somehow lost our innocence from those earlier, simpler times is wrong. The societies that we used to inhabit were savage and aggressive, and for all our faults, we at least try to do better these days.
"these tribes have no immunity to a number of otherwise mild diseases, so contact often leads to deaths (smallpox, flu, etc)."
1. Smallpox isn't mild.
2. Smallpox kills a big percentage of whoever gets it.
3. Smallpox only exists in two labs. Our evil technology has made it extinct in the wild... Thank goodness.
I think you probably mean chickenpox.
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Can you imagine how annoyed the Christian God would be if you shot arrows at him? I mean, he even gets pissed if you don't kill your son when he orders you to.
I don't imagine any of the helicopter crew were particularly annoyed at being shot at.
Isn't it kind of odd that we're more forgiving than our deities?
Yes your child could have been saved with just a few pills but we didn't want to contaminate you.
Yes, as opposed to million of African children who die of malaria every year despite the fact that the aforementioned few pills could have easily saved them?
Yes you could see what some of the lights in the sky really do look like.
Yes, as opposed to the 95% percent of world population that will never see anything except the dirt they are digging or the nike shoes going past them in the assembly line? Forget about luxuries like university education, even things like books and the fucking internet is out of reach for most of the world's people.
You could meet people from far across the sea and you two could fly through the air.
Yes, as opposed to the millions of refugees who can't leave their war-striken country because nobody will give them a visa? Forget the plane or ship, they can't even leave on foot!
But we don't want to contaminate you.
I see your point, but by suggesting that we have some enlightened duty to help those "stone age" people, you are in fact using the same preferential treatment you are accusing others to have against them. There are hundreds of millions of poor, illiterate, disease-striken people in the world, who would GLADLY accept our help. Hell, there are many poor, illiterate, disease-striken people in our own fucking country. Help THEM out before you boldly take your morals to where no man has gone before.
Let's not forget that these people represent a kind of norm. This biological form that we take right now more or less developed during the long Stone Age
We don't really know, actually. There were civilizations and government even during the late stone age.
And human evolution can be surprisingly fast; I think if you tried to go back to that lifestyle, you'd find that you're probably lacking some important genes for disease, starvation, and poison resistance.
It's actually a bunch of San Francisco developers that moved their facilities during the dot.bust.
You can clearly see that one is wearing Nikes and the other is wearing Birkenstocks.
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I guess for them the aliens are already here ... they have yet to land.
I heard another incident once where the natives wanted to down a plane with their spears to steal the propellers, which would make good cutting tools (at least they would be better than their sharp rocks). But when they got close to the plane and saw the weird looking people in it they got scared and ran off.
I guess these "Indians" LITERALLY are redskins
Such a disappointment that the photo releases are so tiny.
The one painted black has boobies!
Why don't you say that to... well, every native peoples who have ever met the egotistically technological westerner.
...[U]ncontacted groups in the region, whose homes have been photographed from the air, are in severe danger from illegal logging in Peru. Logging is driving uncontacted tribes over the border and could lead to conflict with the estimated five hundred uncontacted Indians already living on the Brazilian side.
Yeah sure, maybe they could use your malaria pills, but they could probably live without your AIDS, MRSA, H5N1. They could probably live without your poison-spewing gasoline engines, your brain-toasting electricity, your cancer-causing RF, and -- more to the relevant point -- your forest-leveling logging industry.
These tribes make a point to say "no" to the industrialized world and turn inwards in order to stay away from it. They specifically want to live in their traditional way. That is why they don't make an effort to make contact with the outsiders. They (vainly) hope that if they keep to themselves, the industrialists will too. (Which happens... not so much.)
You should RTFA:
'What is happening in this region [of Peru] is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the 'civilised' ones, treat the world,' said Meirelles.
The (insert name of non-renewable resource here) companies are not going to offer uncontacted tribes' (such as these) members paying jobs in the (name of processed product)-making industry or give them access to cars and doctors and science books. They are going to cut down the forests they depend on to live, and raze their savage primitive huts.
(I proudly give to SI.)
Terrorists can attack freedom, but only Congress can destroy it.
No. It has essentially been eradicated in the wild. THIRTY years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Eradication
"The last cases of smallpox in the world occurred in an outbreak of two cases (one of which was fatal) in Birmingham, England in 1978. A medical photographer, Janet Parker, died from the disease on 11 September 1978"
Now if you have a link that demonstrates a more recent case (which is possible as I'm no expert) then I'd love to see it.
"Once you have her, remove the fetus and have your dark skinned pal make some hand gestures to indicate that the baby would live "up there" (point up to the sky etc)."
Once again we see there is nothing you can posess which I cannot take away.
There are many places in the "civilized" world that are like that.
Also it is a very well documented fact that these tribes accumulate a vast knowledge about medicinal plants that covers most of their needs.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
"your brain-toasting electricity, your cancer-causing RF, and -- more to the relevant point -- your forest-leveling logging industry."
If you think electricity roasts your brain and rf causes cancer why are you posting on Slashdot? Unless you have a difference engine using TCP/IP over carrier pigeon you have exposed yourself to those "dangers".
You think nature is safe and pretty. Then as Erwin said, "Sharks are natural, go hug one".
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So why is it that we assume that THEY are the previously uncontacted ones? Aren't WE equally previously uncontacted, by them? They never called, they never wrote, they never flew over me with a helicopter.
As others have previously said, your link lists something that happened decades ago. Even taking your statement at face value, 1980 belies the statement that "it keep on showing up here and thier" unless by "here and there" you meant "three decades ago."
It's gone man. It doesn't show up "here or there".
Has anyone been able to find the hut in Google Maps?
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Learn your SI prefixes, dammit!
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First thing they do when they see something they don't understand? Attack.
Even though their survival depends solely on our good will.
Somehow I find this to be symptomatic of whole humanity. And I don't doubt even for a second that we, supposedly "civilised" people, would do the same in similar situation...
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If they're uncontacted, then how do we know they're uncontacted? I mean, unless you ask them whether they've interacted with a modern person before, how can you be absolutely sure they haven't?
Besides, one of the guys in the picture looks like he's wearing chucks.
Proverbs 21:19
So, a tribe of aboriginals out in the Amazon.
Inquiring minds want to know, what kind of booze do they have?
Cue the bleeding hearts that can't wait to set up an Internet connected kiosk in the village.
Really, though, whoever tagged this story "primedirective" I'd like to shake their hand. Even in their skewed Trekkie view, they're right... Imagine if we were an "uncontacted tribe" that some more advanced civilization sent the equivalent of a helicopter to photograph us... there would be all sorts of incredulous stories floating around and I'm sure our government would be trying to assuade our fears and tell us there is nothing to be concerned about... ooh... wait a minute...
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Don't these uncontacted tribes have some basic human rights? I think it is barbaric to just leave them unaware without telling them about the rest of the world. From there they can decide to isolate themselves or participate.
I know if I were unfortunate enough to be born to some random uncontacted tribe that I would hope someone would show up and tell me about the rest of the world.
If we treat other humans this way it is reasonable to assume aliens would treat us the same way. Just some cultural and social experiment to be watched until further notice.
Oh, it's perfectly rational all right, except don't think they actually understood what the aircraft was or what the pilots were. Almost invariably this was not some enterprising souls anchored in a skeptical view of the world, but actual _cults_. They _prayed_ to those aircraft. Even when they realized there's someone piloting it (e.g., as in the ghost steamer cult of Papua), they imagined ancestor spirits, or gods, or bird spirits, coming in them to deliver those goods.
(And if you want something even funnier, at least one Sioux tribe eventually came to believe that at the end of days, when the ancestors' spirits come back, they'll come by train.)
Now I'm still saying that it's perfectly rational, for someone whose whole life and explanation of the universe is firmly rooted in spirituality and belief in supernatural spirits. The Europeans would have probably done the same if an airplane showed up, as late as the middle ages.
But at the end of the day, yes, it is rational behaviour and _human_ behaviour. If you saw a guy making a lightsaber out of 5 leds, a lens, and 4 D bateries, you'd try to do the same even if just for curiosity sake. If you don't understand how, you experiment a bit. These guys essentially did the same. They tried to replicate something which obviously worked for the Americans and Japanese. So I'm not trying to paint them as dumb or anything. I'm sure they were perfectly intelligent humans, same as everyone else.
But at the same time I _am_ saying that their explanations _were_ indeed religious. They used the framework they already had for understanding the world, and that was one of religion, magic, supernatural forces, and mighty spirits. They fit those airplanes and airfields in that framework. Because they had no other framework available.
So I wouldn't be too surprised if these guys in the Amazon did the same. Again, I'm not painting them as dumb, nor looking down upon them. But I do expect them to do what so many other tribes did: see it as some supernatural event.
That's really all.
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Think about going in the other direction. They may have four just as compelling (to them) reasons that you should leave your life that you understand, and be fully integrated into *their* society. Of course, that would be extremely painful and confusing for you since you don't understand their culture or how to survive within their system.
In the same way, they are living a life that they understand and very likely find fulfilling/comfortable. There's no reason to assume they would like to change it to be more like ours.
Further, right now they have everything they need (their numbers are growing) and they certainly see themselves as 'doing well materially.' However, once they begin to participate in our society, they have nothing; people whose only possessions are primitive tools and huts have nothing by our standards.
Finally, our civilization (ie everyone other than these uncontacted tribes) is so integrated and all-encompassing, that explaining it to them effectively makes them a part of it. One minute they are a tribe that is successful by their own standards, the next they are poor brazillians with nothing but some primitive technology and no real-world skills.
Within a week the tribe fired more arrows at a Google Street View van caught driving through their village.
We all get along together like tornadoes and trailer parks.
You can't protect your soul from bring stolen by the paparazzi, even in the deepest, darkest regions of the Amazon!
In the meanwhile, do you suppose Jeff Bezos has something to do with this logging stuff? (All those books have to be getting paper from somewhere...) Kinda gives new meaning to the Amazon.com name.
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They know how to live without technology, which is more than one can say about the rest of us. They'll bury us.
They're just 12th-level geocachers.
Was this photo for Google Jungle Views?
they're probably just actors, in the middle of filming the next mel gibson movie
Would be Schrödinger's tribe... In order to find out if they are uncontacted, you have to contact them.
Any chance you could find this settlement on Google Earth?
This hoax was already pulled off several years ago. Same type of picture of supposed natives shooting arrows at a helicopter made the rounds. Looks like its coming back around again.
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A couple of years ago, I watched a documentary on the first contact of the "korubo" tribe. At the time, they were apparently the "last unknown tribe contacted in the Amazon".
It's fascinating, and my wife and children still remember it vividly. Highly recommended.
maybe they just haven't been contacted before by people who think that digital watches are a neat idea...
I have yet to see a photo that was large enough to tell much detail. The buildings in the picture look like they have been abandoned for a season or two to me. As usual, I am skeptical.
You accuse people who wish to have these tribes remain isolated of arrogance. But aren't you being arrogant yourself in assuming that the Western way of life is superior. Listen, if it weren't for a few meddling "explorers" in the so-called Age of Discovery, the developing world wouldn't be as fucked up as it is now. Name me a former European colony and I can easily tell you that it's a developing nation.
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Australia? USA? Canada? Hong Kong?
OK, apart from the second one, I wouldn't say any of these meet the classic definition of a developing nation.
Your optimism strikes me like junkmail addressed to the dead.
Which ethnic group rules those examples you've given? Of course, those descended from European stock. If it were the natives I bet they would be torn apart by civil war, endemic diseases, massive food shortages, and/or massively corrupt governments.
And, by the way, the original ethnic groups in those places (ie those who were there before the evil white man came), except Hong Kong, have received the short ends of whatever sticks were handed to them.
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Just disable "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" for them.
This is an excellent opportunity: What would happen if, instead of people (researchers), we send in Asimo... How would they react?
Hey, why is everybody so sure that we, internet using ethnic group, are going to influence them, rather than they influence us? Just look at all the time we spend discussing this. Red paint might be next season's big fashion.
"You accuse people who wish to have these tribes remain isolated of arrogance. But aren't you being arrogant yourself in assuming that the Western way of life is superior."
Yep I think that knowledge is better than ignorance. I think keeping people in a persevere like you would keep a rare fern or bird is arrogance. And I think giving people a choice is a good thing.
Other groups have chosen to not adopt all the trappings of modern society. The Amish come to mind.
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Those are not fake pics. But that tribe had been know for years.