The Uncontacted People

This would be my first post on this blog!

On Wednesday, we had choices to write about why we should protect the uncontacted people or what we will do if we encounter them. In our class, we discussed about protecting them or not. The topic was interesting, and it was not easy to think why we have to protect them. One reason I came up with was protecting not only the uncontacted people as keeping cultural diversity in the world but also the natural resources that belong to them. These uncontacted people know how to use as well as preserve the nature around them. Without protections for these people, there would be some “takers,” who want to steal the resources more than harm the uncontacted people and destroy their culture. As the takers have consumed more and more their natural resources, they believe that they need to get more from somewhere and someone before they spend all and have nothing left. Therefore, the takers will eye on the “leavers” and plan to take over the resources. When this happens, the takers will kill the uncontacted people as a process to get the resources. The protection is needed as the control the takers and their greedy mind.   \
   
However, I wrote the other topic and thought about it more after the class. In my fast-writing, I said that if I have a chance to visit a village with uncontacted people, first I would greet and show respect to them. If I also can speak their language, I am going to explain why I am there and get a permission to experience their life and culture. I hope that they would welcome me like Arawak people, the native Indians introduced in Howard Znn’s “Columbus, the Indians, and Human Process”. Yet, as we have seen in the videos of the uncontacted people, they are no longer to be nice to foreigners, people with high technology. When civilized people have videotaped the uncontacted people, the uncontacted people look and try to threaten the foreigners by pointing their arrows on the video camera. This made me think why the uncontacted people’s attitudes toward strangers have changed. In the past, the uncontacted people welcomed them and tried to give their things to the strangers; but today, these people try to be isolated themselves from others and express hostility. These people might have experienced threatening in the past directly or indirectly by hearing from their ancestors. Therefore, the takers are the one who have made the leavers to hate the takers. In the history, if takers did not look their own benefits when they met the leavers and helped the leavers to keep their culture and resources, how the leavers’ attitudes and reactions toward the takers would be different?  

The link below has some more information about the uncontacted people. I think we watched video about them in the class. I think it is interesting to look! :)       

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095978/Guess-I-saw-holiday-Tourist-captures-incredible-images-previously-unrecorded-South-American-tribe-including-curious-boy-bushes.html?ito=feeds-newsxml