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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
I don't know about you, but that blows my mind, that there are people still so completely (and deliberately) isolated from the rest of humanity.
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This is a departure from the ongoing coversation...but I wonder if it isn't accidental that we've never seen them before, and they aim their arrows at us when we show up.
Maybe their ancestors encountered Europeans, long ago, and barely survived the encounter, only to hide deep, deep within the jungle and teach their children and their children's children: "BE VERY AFRAID OF THE WHITE INVADER. HE WILL ENSLAVE YOU, STEAL YOUR LAND, RAPE YOUR WOMEN, AND YOU WILL DROP DEAD FROM HORRIBLE ILLNESS."
That might be a really convincing precedent for them not to trust outsiders; possibly difficult to overcome long enough to teach them about canned food...