new guinea tribe encounters white man for the first time

[94form2000z]

Your avatar pisses me the fuck off. I wish to god I had never googled that. I cannot unsee what has been seen.

I don't let my curiosity take me to the places these fools go. lol

[Nash B.]

Sure they do. You don't think Christopher Columbus found North America by staying in Spain, or Lewis and Clark ventured to the west coast by staying on the east side of the continent do you? It's called exploration, one has to make the conscious choice to go out and explore.

Are we talking about exploration or modernization?

[racrguy]

Are we talking about exploration or modernization?

Both. If they choose to explore, they can modernize, also by choice.

That is, unless modern society doesn't kill them off first by, like what a video I watched on the same topic said, modern viruses. Even moving from one side of the country to another, you've got some time to get acclimated to the difference in germs/general nasties that exist from one portion of the country to the other. Granted, you won't be out and out sick, but you'll have a runny nose or something like that for a couple days to a week until your immune system catches up.

[Taylor]

The only question I really have about this whole scenario is, why contact them? If they are not bothering anyone, and you don't need to contact them, why do it? They are living the most natural existence on Earth, and you ruin it as soon as you set foot in front of them.

My thoughts exactly. Why infect them.

[SS Junk]

For fucks sake, missionaries need to leave people like this the fuck alone.

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."

Matthew 24:14

[SlowLX]

My thoughts exactly. Why infect them.

Anthropologists like to observe people that have changed little over thousands of years to get an idea of what early culture resembled.

[slow84lx]

You don't think Christopher Columbus found North America by staying in Spain,.

Surely you don't believe that Christopher Columbus found North America? White men from many places other than Spain had been fishing the shores here, trading with the Indians, and doing some exploration for hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus came along to claim North America for Spain.

[racrguy]

So the vikings found it first. There aren't too many people who know that offhand because Christopher Columbus is who is taught in schools. Besides, it's an example of exploration.

[Taylor]

Anthropologists like to observe people that have changed little over thousands of years to get an idea of what early culture resembled.

To the benefit of whom? Just makes a cool story.

[racrguy]

To the benefit of whom? Just makes a cool story.

The more you know about your past, the better you can tell what direction you're heading. I'm not saying it's right, but that's how some people look at it.

[Moose242]

Entering the modern world will double their life expectancy. If you think that "natural existence" is better then feel free to find somewhere remote to live and forget all technology. No cheating!

Actually, entering the modern world would probably kill them.

The last unencountered tribe that people found and tried to contact in Columbia in 1988 (the Nukak people) were almost entirely wiped out. 65% were lost to disease, and now only a few dozen are left.

Again, leave people like this alone.

[Whiteboy]

is that garland?

I know your drunk ass isnt talking.

[jdgregory84]

I just wonder how long it's gonna take for Christians to put the "fear of God" in them?

[jdgregory84]

Actually, entering the modern world would probably kill them.

The last unencountered tribe that people found and tried to contact in Columbia in 1988 (the Nukak people) were almost entirely wiped out. 65% were lost to disease, and now only a few dozen are left.

Again, leave people like this alone.

What they didn't tell you is that only a few dozen were alive when contact was made. J/K...maybe?

[mstng86]

So the vikings found it first. There aren't too many people who know that offhand because Christopher Columbus is who is taught in schools. Besides, it's an example of exploration.

Actually, more than likely, there were probably a handful of people that found the Americas before the Vikings. We just choose to forget about all the non-european sea explorers.