I could have sworn this tribe was actually given metal tools by traders in a picture I saw.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;30681477]You go have fun dying of gangrene then, I guess.[/QUOTE]
That's the spirit.
[QUOTE=Hostel;30660362]Imagine if you showed them a flamethrower.[/QUOTE]
How about we don't introduce them to war and violence?
[QUOTE=Antarctic Sheep;30660722]And that's why I'm still here behind my computer living a life that I'd rather not live. But if I could choose in what kind of society to live, I'd live in a family like that. I mean, if I had surviving experience in a jungle enviroment, I would be gone already, honestly.
Edit: Not saying that how we live in this society is wrong though, it's just my opinion.[/QUOTE]
Even if you do have experience, that still doesn't protect you from diseases, wild animals, and poisonous plants.
You need to realize you are lucky to have what you have.
[editline]24th June 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=nox;30675415]The Tribesman was pretty freaked out by the mirror.
Because we all want to live forever behind our monitors right, at least it's safe here
I think I'd sooner die than live to suffer from joint pains, sleepless nights, and shitting my Depends in a nursing home.[/QUOTE]
So you want to live a dangerous life where you always have to be on your toes just so you don't have to deal with being old?
I wonder what would happen if in their culture giving a handshake would mean an act of extreme violence.
Or better, if an extremelly advanced alien species suddenly arrived and greeted us by showing the middle finger.
That would be hilarious in a very childish way :v:
that part with the mirror was great. it's so awesome to see how afraid someone could be of something as simple as a mirror.
I loved how this 'uncivilized' tribe showed more understanding than most modern nations.
That was amazing. I find it extremely bizarre that our species is so varied.
Truly unique, that we could have something like the internet and yet there are still tribes like this around the world.
[QUOTE=Antarctic Sheep;30684986]Your point is? Wouldn't mind it. I'll die anyways and I'm not planning on ending in a wheelchair due to old age.
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YES. Someone gets it![/QUOTE]
I think this is what's called, "natural selection".
lmao the one shat himself when he lifted up the end of the leaf and the mirror was like "eh yo dog what's up"
I would have preferred the original sound over the song.
Holy shit, just finished that documentary, that was amazing.
[QUOTE=Teh Zip File;30694351]I would have preferred the original sound over the song.[/QUOTE]
Full documentary here incase you didn't know.(part 1)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDvhVItiBFs&feature=channel_video_title[/media]
I wonder what would have happened if they brought black men instead, would they see it as a rival tribe and become hostile? Or just as curious?
It's odd how nearly all tribes that aren't 'modernized' as it were, have this culture of piecing.
[QUOTE=DTkach;30692542]That was amazing. I find it extremely bizarre that our species is so varied.
Truly unique, that we could have something like the internet and yet there are still tribes like this around the world.[/QUOTE]I always find tribes like this to be really fascinating.
At the end of the last part of the original video, you can see the white guy writing down the tribes names for some objects and they seemed to know what he is doing. I think it's amazing how much they can communicate after only one day.
Language barriers are hard, complete social and world barriers amazing to overcome.
[QUOTE=SoaringScout;30688778]Even if you do have experience, that still doesn't protect you from diseases, wild animals, and poisonous plants.
You need to realize you are lucky to have what you have.[/QUOTE]
At least I'd have a better immune system, plus, not to forget, the reason why bacterium got so evolved and dangerous (take a look at all the different kinds of flues) to living organisms (excluding bacterium themselves) is because of antibiotics and other medicine. I'm sorry, but I'm not the kind of person that has average kids, a dream-house and a successful career as goals.
And about wild animals, it's the circle of life: [url]http://www.growvc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ecosystem.gif[/url] It's not a perfect example but just change the biotope and replace the animals with other animals of that order, including a human and then it all just fits, then it loops while evolution, influenced by the changes of the biotope, takes course. Look where humanity is at right now, whenever a human mentions the word animals, it never includes humanity (one of my pet peeves actually).
About poisonous plants, if I were to grew up in a culture that probably has existed for millenia, I'd probably know what plants are edible and which ones aren't.
But of course you're right, I am lucky, yet I could only dream of being born in a culture like theirs. Hey, I am not disappointed with what I have.
I also imagine there's just as much chance of me getting hit by a car, getting involved in a traincrash, crashing in an airplane because of living in a society like ours as dying because of getting attacked by (for example) a lioness or dying of the flu or eating the wrong plant. Safety in life is never guaranteed, it's why you just need to find balance between being cautious and taking risks. I think that's what they call living life?
P.S. Predators may seem the badasses of the whole ecosystem, but in my opinion decomposers win in the end, just had to mention that.
[QUOTE=Mr. Kyle;30688427]How about we don't introduce them to war and violence?[/QUOTE]
I propose primitive tribe cage fights. The tribe that wins gets any item from dollar tree to worship as their new god.
Wow, pretty amazing. And it proves that Humans, although incredibly intelligent, are essentially still just an ordinary animal like a bear with a beating heart and lungs etc.
You kind of lose touch with that stuff when you go about daily business as 'money' and 'work' seem a lot more important than anything that wasn't put there by someone else
[QUOTE=The Party Spy;30661374]I love how they tried to hide themselves from the mirror by putting a leaf over it. Seeing how they look must be fucking terrifying for them[/QUOTE]
Sometimes I wonder how it would be to not have the ability to see how you look, but then I realize they can look in water. It's still weird to think about though
[editline]25th June 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Antarctic Sheep;30707318]At least I'd have a better immune system, plus, not to forget, the reason why bacterium got so evolved and dangerous (take a look at all the different kinds of flues) to living organisms (excluding bacterium themselves) is because of antibiotics and other medicine. I'm sorry, but I'm not the kind of person that has average kids, a dream-house and a successful career as goals.
And about wild animals, it's the circle of life: [url]http://www.growvc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ecosystem.gif[/url] It's not a perfect example but just change the biotope and replace the animals with other animals of that order, including a human and then it all just fits, then it loops while evolution, influenced by the changes of the biotope, takes course. Look where humanity is at right now, whenever a human mentions the word animals, it never includes humanity (one of my pet peeves actually).
About poisonous plants, if I were to grew up in a culture that probably has existed for millenia, I'd probably know what plants are edible and which ones aren't.
But of course you're right, I am lucky, yet I could only dream of being born in a culture like theirs. Hey, I am not disappointed with what I have.
I also imagine there's just as much chance of me getting hit by a car, getting involved in a traincrash, crashing in an airplane because of living in a society like ours as dying because of getting attacked by (for example) a lioness or dying of the flu or eating the wrong plant. Safety in life is never guaranteed, it's why you just need to find balance between being cautious and taking risks. I think that's what they call living life?
P.S. Predators may seem the badasses of the whole ecosystem, but in my opinion decomposers win in the end, just had to mention that.[/QUOTE]
Humans don't imply humans in the animal thing because humans are completely and utterly different from typical animals (or rather, any animals). At base even they're still totally different.
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;30715632]
Humans don't imply humans in the animal thing because humans are completely and utterly different from typical animals (or rather, any animals). At base even they're still totally different.[/QUOTE]
I disagree, they're not radically different, you should watch an episode of the National Geographic show "The Human Ape", at some parts it freaked me out. Really.
Plus, humans are still classified under the kingdom animalia, but I get your point.
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The Human Ape is on Youtube: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz6IxZsLwlo[/url]
[QUOTE=Antarctic Sheep;30717558]I disagree, they're not radically different, you should watch an episode of the National Geographic show "The Human Ape", at some parts it freaked me out. Really.
Plus, humans are still classified under the kingdom animalia, but I get your point.
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The Human Ape is on Youtube: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz6IxZsLwlo[/url][/QUOTE]
The main difference between humans and animals is culture, and that is incredibly important
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;30725564]The main difference between humans and animals is culture, and that is incredibly important[/QUOTE]
What do you mean exactly, that non-human animals don't have culture or that the cultural differences are too different?
If you mean the first one, all living organisms have culture, culture being way of behaviour, communication, organization and stuff like that. Like hissing is a way of showing disgust or hate is for domestic cats, shouting aggressively is to for us. Humans do have, like I said before, many ressemblances with apes, which means that in the end there's not much difference there....
I don't think it's pathetic that they have made no technological advances. Who am I to say that their life is not as, or more so, fulfilling than the life we live here. Technology is just a tool used to make our life easier, but we would still have life without it. I don't know about the sticks through the nose thing though.
I am jealous of the guy showing them all the stuff. What I wouldn't do to be him.
It must be exhilarating to teach those guys new things.
I LIVE for this kind of thing.
It's exactly why I like stuff about time travel; culture/technology shock.
All things considered, it's AMAZING they got on so well, given what they've shown them is indiscernible from magic, from their perspective. Although I wonder just how much of that was fear. All the same, it looks like a close-knit group of happy people that probably has never seen outsiders of any sort.
I've read about dark-skinned natives mistaking pale skin for paint, but to see them checking the guy out, touching his hair, rubbing his skin with such a sense of innocent wonder...I'll say it's not something I expected to actually see.
It's a mark of how far we've really come that they treat everything in their camp as though it might explode. Seeing their curiosity over the alien-looking plastic material of their bottles in all their bright colors was extremely interesting.
I loved how wary they were of the mirrors, especially when the main guy covered it with a leaf as a precaution. They must have seemed like gateways to another world, before they gathered that they were seeing themselves in it.
And how disturbed and amused they were to hear the recorder play their voices back to them, especially given nobody really can "hear" their own voice as others do. You could just imagine when he heard his singing on the recorder and stepped back a moment that he was thinking, "Oh boy, that's it for me. It's neat, but I don't know what the deal is with this magic box."
All things considered, they took it all really well, and I'm glad to know that we as a people are smart enough to tread lightly with cases like this, and offer the hand of friendship without disrupting their ability to live as they do.
[QUOTE=Antarctic Sheep;30726405]What do you mean exactly, that non-human animals don't have culture or that the culture differences are too different?
If you mean the first one, all living organisms have culture, culture being way of behaviour, communication, organization and stuff like that. Like hissing is a way of showing disgust or hate is for domestic cats, shouting aggressively is to for us. Humans do have, like I said before, many ressemblances with apes, which means that in the end there's not much difference there....[/QUOTE]
Complex and differing societies and complex and differing cultures, I suppose. Something animals cannot do in any magnitude
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