Amazon tribe sighting raises dilemma

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[MeanGreen2008]

I think it’s fascinating that there are still human beings who live like this. Do they even know there is technologically advanced world out there?

[YOUGOTIT]

Why does the left want to leave these people to rot in the jungle?

[the invisib1e hand]

uncontacted by whom? other tribes mix with them, and those other tribes, at some point, have been “contacted.”

[marthemaria]

Me to.I am amazed as well.Kind of unbelievable

[Dog Gone]

We must keep the uncontacted tribes in a zoo, preventing them from any contact or improvement. Even though their life expectancy is probably 35 years or less, this is for their own good.

It’s our own real life Survivor reality show. Whatever you do, don’t let them know we have medicine that works and that snake bites don’t have to be fatal.

[SampleMan]

People should not be treated like zoo animals, so that we might all go on anthropological field trips.

Most indigenous peoples walk out of the jungle in search of an easier life.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Why does the left want to leave these people to rot in the jungle?

There are some legitimate concerns, such as exposing these people to viruses they've never encountered before and have no immunity against. But certainly they should be made aware that there's a wider world with a cleaner, safer, less dangerous way of life out there, and given the opportunity to join that world.

[Jemian]

think it’s fascinating that there are still human beings who live like this. Do they even know there is technologically advanced world out there?

My guess is that no, they don't know. I live in Papua, Indonesia and my impression is that when a group here finds out that technology and medicine has been withheld from them, the anger is long lasting and very, very strong.

[kms61]

contact between technologically advanced cultures and more primitive cultures invariably turns out bad for the less developed culture. They’re wiped out by disease, driven off their land, etc. That’s the way it’s been throughout human history. And if there are alien civilizations out there in the universe, it’ll probably happen to the human race as a whole if we ever make contact. Left vs Right notwithstanding, I don’t see a very good outcome for these people. Probably better for them if they had remained undiscovered.

[CarrotAndStick]

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  Indian Coast Guard / AP

  A Sentinelese man aims his bow and arrow at an Indian Coast Guard helicopter as it flies over his island on Dec. 28, surveying for tsunami damage. Circumstantial evidence suggests the indigenous tribes of the southern archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar used ancient know-how to save themselves from the catastrophic tsunami.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2023478/posts?page=16#16

[So Circumstanced]

Are they a polygamous cult?

[Sacajaweau]

Wonder what their life time is? If they're dying out from simple diseases like malaria, typhoid? Surely, they're not expanding and will become extinct just as many other tribes.

Now, a snail darter or an owl...that's another thing.

[McLynnan]

I was fascinated too. It’s hard to fathom that in our technologically advanced world there are people who have no knowledge of the world around them. The industrial revolution passed them by! That’s unbelievable. The original article said the Peruvian group are one of many in the world — I’d love to learn more about all of them.

[Arthur McGowan]

Liberalism, according to James Burnham, is that ideology whose function is to reconcile Western man to the death of his civilization.

Notice that there appears to be no concern that these people have never heard of Jesus Christ, and are unbaptized. The proposition that the Gospel is for every human being to hear is the heart of Western civilization. This is not to approve of the way the European empires “encountered” the people of the New World. The view that it is better for all concerned for these people to live in the Stone Age FOREVER is Liberalism.

[Michael.SF.]

Why does the left want to leave these people to rot in the jungle?

For how many centuries do think these people have been 'rot(ing) in the jungle?

[Popman]

Dramatic photographs of previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the precariousness of the few remaining "lost" tribes and the dangers they face from contact with outsiders.

This is nonsense. These people are not "lost" or out of "contact" with the world.

Granted they aren't carrying around Ipod's or blackberrys, but they choose to live like this. They have contact with other tribes and peoples.

I find the use of the word "unfound" interesting rather than using the word "unknown"

Speaks volumes

[Defiant]

Circumstantial evidence suggests the indigenous tribes of the southern archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar used ancient know-how to save themselves from the catastrophic tsunami

Do they "know how" to run when a huge wave approaches?

[Parley Baer]

“with more than 50 uncontacted tribes thought to live there out of the estimated 100 worldwide.”

Interesting. I wonder where the other 50 uncontacted tribes would be located?

[CarrotAndStick]

That I don’t know. Perhaps they might have observed birds swimming towards the shore suddenly, or things like that, and then ran to higher grounds.