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July 2008
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Written by Emily Dunn
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 19:10 |
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What is it about the recent photographs of the "uncontacted" indigenous tribe of the Peruvian-Brazilian Amazon region that has caused such a stir? The provocative photos of painted natives in loincloths, including several holding bows ready to loose their arrows at the aircraft filming them from overhead, are eliciting worldwide concern over how the government will treat these people.
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Lies, lies and lies. Survival International: a sham NGO.
BTW, there's plenty of information around that shows that the customs of many tribes have been influenced by the cultures that arrived in the last 500 years. So, the notion of "purity", of a "link" to the past, is false.
But the nonsense reaches the apex when contact is compared to genocide. So does Hollywood "genocide" the world every day? Contact they will have, sooner or later, and that's inevitable. It's just stupid to try to stop the inevitable. The most logical approach would be to decide how it should be done when it happens (if there's any real uncontacted tribe, that is).
Since it has no logic I can only conclude that the goal of such NGOs is to slow down the socio-economic development of the region by Brazil in order it can be saved for some other group.