No the end result is not set in stone as has been proved with many contacts. They have kept there tradition, whilst using some modern technology and sending there children to school. With many but not all returning to there home. Once education is finished.
Tribes uncontacted by man - facinating
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No the end result is not set in stone as has been proved with many contacts. They have kept there tradition, whilst using some modern technology and sending there children to school. With many but not all returning to there home. Once education is finished.
Which is only a problem if you destroy there society. Which is very unlikely in the here and now. People are much more aware, there are many more charitys and the governments are taking action. It is not one choice or the other, it's not forcing them. It's not going oh well force you onto a plane and then you can see are cities.
A lot of the Inuit tribes. They still use traditional methods for most things. But have set up communities and use snow mobiles. There are others in the forest which have done the same. But i can't remember tribe names of the top of my head.
I disagree, the end result is set in stone, it is the total and complete homogenisation and globalisation of all mankind. It is inevitable, it may be 100s of years but that's the bigger picture.
I am not even saying don't contact them, just logically thinking through the likely results.
A tribsman in New Guinea who gets educated to a globalised worldview but still chooses to wear a Koteka on his old man on the weekends is not a sign of succesfull contact by anthropologists. This is a massive grey area, there is no right and wrong (ok there is wrong!) just actions and likely outcomes.
What gives us the right to inflict our world on theirs? Why, in your view, does ours supercede theirs and therefore give us the right to trample on their society, belief systems and social conventions?
And it will affect their culture, believe that. Look at the case of the aboriginals in australia - do you think the australian government has treated them well? Have a read about that.
Sure, you may say the world has moved on. But has it really? We still engage in thoroughly useless wars, scramble for resources and are destroying the earth.
These peoples are completey autonomous of this, and are self sustaining at no cost to the planet. They show that humans haven't always been like this.
I say leave them to it, what compelling reason is there to disrupt them?
And it will affect their culture, believe that. Look at the case of the aboriginals in australia - do you think the australian government has treated them well? Have a read about that.
Sure, you may say the world has moved on. But has it really? We still engage in thoroughly useless wars, scramble for resources and are destroying the earth.
These peoples are completey autonomous of this, and are self sustaining at no cost to the planet. They show that humans haven't always been like this.
I say leave them to it, what compelling reason is there to disrupt them?
sauce? (yeah i'm actually very surprised you mention the inuit as being a good example of a positive meeting between an indigenous tribe and modern man thats not led to the decimation of their way of life)
Theres a ****load of sources that say otherwise but maybe not eh.
LOL............ classic comment I couldn't breath for laughing at my desk at work!
However I love watching these sort of programmes but feel we shouldn't interfere with them too much....
Bruce parry's series was great though (Tribes)...........
But they have never been small teams with legislation. they have gone in mainly as missionary and changed them. Or in later cases. Gone in with heavy mining equipment.
The Inuit way of life isn't really going to be the same once all the snow/ice has gone is it
And whats that got to do with contacting tribes. No the Inuits aren't the best example. But we've never had contact with tribes in a sensible way. Which is almost certainly how it would happen these days. The world has changed and people are a lot more concerned about these things, as can be seen in this thread.
What was that tribe, up north somewhere who used a lot of reindeer. They where pretty much untouched by modern technology other than some woolly hats and sending some of there young ones to school.
How do you think a small team would suddenly destroy there society?It defies belief that you can support that point of view. Not convinced
Of course there have been. Do you really think, if a UK based research team wanted to go to the Trobriand Islands or Papua New Guinea they could just hop on a plane?
They have ot apply to study the indiginous peoples from the central government of that country. Not to mention the complexities of getting visas for research purposes.
They don't just turn up with a tape recorder!
edit: anthropology isn't a dead science, social research does go on you know. In a controlled way. But that is with peoples who know of the outside world. THis is a wonderful opportunity for the world's population to show that we're not all self serving and selfish.
They have ot apply to study the indiginous peoples from the central government of that country. Not to mention the complexities of getting visas for research purposes.
They don't just turn up with a tape recorder!
edit: anthropology isn't a dead science, social research does go on you know. In a controlled way. But that is with peoples who know of the outside world. THis is a wonderful opportunity for the world's population to show that we're not all self serving and selfish.
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Glad someone else sees the irony of the Government getting this pics.
Oompa Loompas it is.
Yes but correct me if I'm wrong that's exactly what happened minus the tape players many years ago.
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They should be left alone, they havent expanded or gone off seeking the mysteries of the world. Just leave them to their ways.
What is most fascinating is the fact that they are still so primative after thousands of years.
What is most fascinating is the fact that they are still so primative after thousands of years.