Posted on 11/25/2018 10:22:03 PM PST by cold start
I don’t think they should have given them pots and pans. Let them be wild.
We should leave them alone for the most part. It would be interesting to spy on them with technology, view them in their natural habitat.
There could be a live stream.... Live wild humans, warts and all.
IBT Bring ‘em to Jesus and give ‘em a dirt-washing....
The tribe is not hostile, nor do they raid their neighbours, Pandit says.They only say, ‘leave us alone.’ They make it amply clear that outsiders are not welcome in their habitat. One needs to understand that language.
Are you old enough to remember the Tasaday people? I remember the NatGeo story on them. Just googled them. I’m not impressed by the photo I saw.
Just leave them alone. It is their Island, it is their land and their customs. They may kill you if you go there. Do not go there least you die. Just leave them alone. They have no wish to join our civilization and this may be a wise choice. Leave them alone!
Body won’t be found. They ate him.
Yes, the Tasaday hoax.
Could it be that this is similair?
King Kong lives there.
Lol, true.
I think it’s hyped a bit. Do I think they’re savages? Yes. Do I think they killed a guy? Yes. Do I think he could have been killed in the wrong neighborhood in Bsltimore or Chicago? Yes.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
>> Leave them alone!
Awe, you’re so sweet and loving...
I don’t understand why people have to keep bothering them when they clearly want to be left alone.
Idiot. He must be one of those *happy ignorant savages and the inherent goodness of man* people.
On our first visit, the Sentinelese must have seen us, but they did not come out at all. Instead, they hid in forests, possibly observing us. There’s a small beach in the island, and the rest all are forest areas. So, when we walked into the island, they were definitely watching us, but we did not see them.
So which is it? Possibly watching you or definitely watching you? How do you know if you didn't see them?
Personally, I was not keen on getting their stuff, but the policemen who went with us picked up bows, arrows, spears, etc.
Great, so the first thing they do is rob the natives.
And they wonder why they are hostile.
Anthropologists are somewhere below used car salesmen. They and their smug superiority and better-than-thou-ness.
But if they knew what they were missing would they have the same attitude?
They have a long history of murdering shipwrecked people.
They are savages and I don’t know how this guy was unaware in the 1960s about their long reputation for doing so.
I don’t his story.
They have a right to immigrate and vote and receive free health care. Their children must learn to be transgender. And we must teach them global warming. /s
That's probably why they left the coconuts and plastic utensils and aluminum pans... in most native cultures there is swapping upon a meeting and it generally isn't the choice of the giver what is chosen by the recipient, but since the giver gets next choice on what he wants in return, it balances out. Of course that does not apply to every wild tribe and they didn't know how this tribe would take it so they should not have lifted anything... the commanding officer should not have allowed it.
Even though they left compensatory items that the tribe probably liked very much, and may even have valued more highly than the things taken, if it was my house I'd still be resentful since it would be an intrusion into the privacy and security of my home to have uninvited people ogling my stuff ...so I don't blame them for being hostile.
That's probably why the first visit the study team was left alone and only observed, but on subsequent visits the natives were adamant they not venture into the island again. They apparently never forgot that they were not consulted in the "swap."
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