Across the planet there are several tribes of indigenous people who have never contacted the outside world. These natives have no understanding of the rest of humanity’s accomplishments and do not know that society as a whole has progressed into the future. With deforestation, rising populations, and continual exploration, our world is increasingly getting closer to theirs. With this, many of the accepting tribes become educated, welcome much needed supplies, receive vaccines, and gain the ability of choosing a new, potentially better, life. On the other side of these encounters is death from both attacks and the transfer of disease. Often times the passing of disease only hurts the tribes, who have never built up an immunity, while dramatically reducing their numbers. Humanity has always chose to avoid these tribes, but it has become clear that this is now nearly impossible. While taking these two immense options into consideration, modern society must choose which choice benefits both of us. Whether we want to try help the ones who have survived just as long as us, or try to improve their lives by welcoming them into our world, it all comes down to this question: should we interfere with the uncontacted tribes of our world?
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Eli
1/21/2021 06:16:14 pm
Tribes being sheltered to modern technology are incapable of protecting themselves, but should not be exposed to so many environmental changes too soon. These tribes are amazingly different and need to be treated individually different. So instead of continuing to shelter them, or throw overwhelm them with modern technology, we need to consider immune these tribes are.
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Blazen
1/24/2021 04:35:31 pm
Sounds like discriminating them from society. This would just lead to them being even more isolated than before.
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Will
1/24/2021 06:45:20 pm
I feel this process would be a slow and challenging, for many of these tribes are frighted by outside connections, let alone to introduce them into technology.
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Mackay Williams
1/25/2021 03:52:06 pm
It is apparent for you threw these tribes into the real world they would struggled. Yet they have been living on their own and are very independent, sooner or later it would be easy to adapt.
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Sam
1/21/2021 06:16:35 pm
Indigenous tribes across the world have remained removed from modern society as a way to preserve their culture. As more advanced civilizations try to connect their way of life with ours, it imposes threats to the tribe's maintenance of their historical standings. These groups use their practices and beliefs as ways to stay connected to their past and carry on their customs for future generations. By introducing them to our progressive technologies we are promoting a different way of life and if they don't want to accept it then we shouldn't force first world lifestyles on these people.
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Blazen
1/24/2021 04:34:09 pm
Shouldn’t we at least introduce the technology? If they don’t want it then they won’t use it. The past is the past, their culture will still be with them even if they adapt to our modern technology.
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Dillon
1/24/2021 06:41:56 pm
Maybe they would like to be introduced into society, but we don’t know for sure that they would benefit most from that. Is there a way we could come in contact with them without changing their way of life?
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Caden
1/24/2021 07:01:44 pm
I believe that we should either leave them completely alone, or bring them completely into the rest of society. I don't think that there can be any in-between.
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Johnathon Simmons
1/24/2021 07:17:43 pm
Forcing anything upon anyone doesn't sit well with me. They are entitled to their culture and we should not force ours on them. Do you think that we should introduce them to any life saving technologies though? That most likely wouldn't interfere with their culture.
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Aidan
1/24/2021 07:48:15 pm
Screw their culture if I can’t know what it is. That’s like saying we shouldn’t go to the moon so we don’t disrupt the moon dust. Absurd.
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Blazen
1/24/2021 04:33:11 pm
We should not interfere with the irrelevant. These tribes are practically modern day cavemen. Trying to interfere could freak them out and make them go berserk killing off those trying to help. This then would just cause our amazing president to have to give orders to have all of these tribes eradicated. Tweeting afterwards that he saved our lives somehow by doing this. Even if they didn’t attack us, what would be the point of trying to make cavemen normal people? Trying to change them into normal civilized people would be a waste of time. We have enough civilized people in the world, if anything we need less. Our focus should be on trying to solve things like world hunger, not save some irrelevant people that hardly anyone still knows exist.
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Will
1/24/2021 06:41:58 pm
I side with your idea about how the chance of successfully introducing them into our society would be low, just look at the Native Americans, many have negative experiences with the process applied to become a ‘true’ citizen.
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Mackay Williams
1/25/2021 03:55:57 pm
By interfering with the lives of these tribal people, do you think we are truly showing human decency by aiding them in the transition to a modernized lifestyle or, is it that we are looking more at the potential economic benefits we could gain by exploiting their unconventional ways of life to the public through things like tourism?
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Will
1/24/2021 06:37:29 pm
These predominant tribes are a living piece of history, displaying a life that our distant ancestors once lived. There initial simplicity is what causes many to believe that they must be evolved into our modern society. However, when these ingenious tribes are study, it is often found that there are many valuable ancient cultures and traditions. These have been pasted down from generation to generation, and have the opportunity to continue teaching us about the lives and experiences of the previous world. So rather than forcing them into our current society, we must capitalize on the the chance to enhance our historical and cultural knowledge.
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Dillon
1/24/2021 06:44:01 pm
They do give us a piece of history. Instead of bringing them into society we must study their society and hopefully learn from it.
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Eli
1/24/2021 07:57:27 pm
We get so focused on what we can improve on that we lose focus on what we had. The traditions that the indigenous people had serve a important part in what we can capitalize on today
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Dillon
1/24/2021 06:40:16 pm
Tribes that have not been contacted by the outside world should remain isolated. The risk of introducing them to the modern world is too great. Coming in contact with them would likely hurt them far worse than leaving them be because of diseases that they would have no immunity to. Unless their is a threat to their lives that they are unaware of, they should not be interfered with. It is not our choice to decide if the life we envision for them is better than the one they already have. Maybe they do have an idea of the outside world and just choose to separate themselves from it. Either way, the risks out way the benefits of attempting to introduce indigenous people to a completely new world they have never encountered.
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Caden
1/24/2021 07:03:23 pm
Do you think that they deserve to see how society has progressed around them? I agree that it's very risky but wouldn't you want to know if other people had far greater knowledge than you?
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Johnathon Simmons
1/24/2021 07:16:34 pm
These tribes do deserve the choice to live their lives the way we want and we should not enforce our ideals on to them, especially when it could be hurting them but if they were in need of help should we use 21st century recourses to help them?.
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Aidan
1/24/2021 07:47:04 pm
Nah they aren’t helping the economy at all so we should kick them out of their land and build factories on it and make them work in the factories. Honestly it’d be a better life than they live right now.
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Johnathon Simmons
1/24/2021 07:14:32 pm
Before any effort of contacting and/or introducing tribes into our modern world, every available effort should be put into allowing them to live in peace. The past can be one of our best teachers and from the past, we learn that people don't like it when you intrude on their ways of life and their land. Looking at the native Americans, we saw them become all but extinct. Thousands upon thousands were killed either by the hand of white settlers or the diseases we brought with us. When we finally realized that we had done them wrong by forcing our culture on them and taking their land, it was too late. The natives who still want to live in the way and place that they did at one time are now confined to small Indian reserves. I fear that we would see many of the same scenarios play out if we were to try to introduce any isolated tribes to our modern, "superior" world.
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Eli
1/24/2021 08:00:03 pm
As you stated you our culture may not be superior to theirs. While they still have their problems we also have our problems they just look different. We think of our selfs sometimes as almost utopian society compared to others but in reality we are just as messed up or more messed up.
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Sam
1/24/2021 08:09:41 pm
If a culture of people is thriving in their own ways, then I agree that we should not force them into what we believe is a superior way to live.
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Aidan Adams
1/24/2021 07:45:33 pm
We must colonize the world! If we look at the world from a larger perspective, it is as if asking aliens to contact us or not. If they had awesome technology and sweet medicine, would you not want them to contact us and give us some at that? That’s the same for the these guys, they are ignorantly at bliss.
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Sam
1/24/2021 08:08:30 pm
Part of forming a thriving culture is discovering new technologies based on previous advancements. Maybe by them discovering their own advantages, it can better pertain to their way of life.
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Mackay Williams
1/25/2021 03:49:19 pm
The indigenous tribes that are hidden in our world have sought to seclude themselves from the modern day cultures that surround them. Maintaining early beliefs is their top desire. Leaving them at peace is without a doubt what our nation must do. If we were to intrude upon them, violence may erupt. Yet with our growing economy there are things such as, cattle farmers, new roads, loggers, and hunters driving tribes from their land. Making it harder for these people to protect their priorities. Our society should have the respect to keep the boundaries between the two different groups. Introducing new technologies can be alarming, confusing and even frightening.
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