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Most humans, including you, belong to the 99.9999% of Homo sapiens that are isolated from the much smaller isolated groups left. North Sentinel Island, which is nominally governed by India, is home of one of the very few smaller ones. Its locals number in the few hundreds and have likely been there and rejected outsiders for thousands of years.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Theyve interacted with outsiders to varying degrees...

They were trading for iron just a couple of years before that idiot missionary got it his head god wanted them converted. And they gave him a couple chances.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Fuck missionaries and fuck evangelists of any kind.

If I want to join your religion, I should do it because I respect its followers, not because they shove it in my face and tell me I'll go to some imaginary horrible place when I die if I don't.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

His Twitter exists still, itโ€™s a little eerie

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

The Guardian had an article saying they were of the Stone Age, but I think their Iron Age began when they dismantled a nearby shipwreck. Are they also trading with outsiders? And not dying from our diseases?