[PERMANENTLY CLOSED] tribe which lives on an island in the Bay of Bengal...

Tallguy88 said:

Seems India is the one doing the research. And they have forbidden anyone from visiting the natives except apparently for the one scientist the locals have accepted.

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They really do need to leave the natives alone and not bother them, especially before it gets out of hand and more people try to intrude into the lives of those people.

I would really hate to see the lives of these people possibly ruined and their culture possibly destroyed by further outside interferences or influences. I sincerely hope these isolated people will be left alone to continue living their own lives as they have always done, without any outside interference or intrusion.

Red Fox said:

They really do need to leave them alone and not bother them

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But the locals have allowed the one man to visit.

Tallguy88 said:

But the locals have allowed the one man to visit.

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I guess they don't know any better and aren't able to recognize the possible dangers of allowing that. If history is consistent, then it is one outsider who visits, then it usually ends up being two or more outsiders who come to visit, and then the next thing they know they are surrounded by outsiders and their true identity becomes lost in the mix.

And that seems to me to be the right way to go about it - the one person visiting I mean.

Any more than that [ and he's a risk to some degree depending on how close contact he has ] and there's a HUGE risk of infections that we can cope with as we have developed an immunity - but these islanders will be prey to it and could well die

Anhelyna said:

Any more than that [ and he's a risk to some degree depending on how close contact he has ] and there's a HUGE risk of infections that we can cope with as we have developed an immunity - but these islanders will be prey to it and could well die

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Yes, that is another factor in all of this, spreading foreign diseases among these people, which could very likely wipe them out or the majority of them out.

The potential for spreading disease is one of the reasons that the Indian government gave for ending the contact missions in the mid-1990s.

LivingWordUnity said:

I'm sure that the U.S. and other western nations already have it planned to promote abortion and homosexuality there.

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I'm envisioning a team of gay missionaries flocking upon the unsuspecting islanders and turning the island into a giant roller disco, serving them cosmopolitans and speading the gospel of saint Carrie Bradshaw.

That'd be fun to watch.

Antigone said:

I'm envisioning a team of gay missionaries flocking upon the unsuspecting islanders and turning the island into a giant roller disco, serving them cosmopolitans and speading the gospel of saint Carrie Bradshaw.

That'd be fun to watch.

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I don't think it would be fun to watch sin. I also don't think it would be fun to watch these people cause the little children to sin. Better that they tie a millstone around their necks and are cast into the sea.

Antigone said:

I'm envisioning a team of gay missionaries flocking upon the unsuspecting islanders and turning the island into a giant roller disco, serving them cosmopolitans and speading the gospel of saint Carrie Bradshaw.

That'd be fun to watch.

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Joking or not, I don't want to see these people being corrupted. I think it would be incredibly sad if they were.

Lavendar Frog said:

Then again, those who have never heard of Jesus are not doomed by Jesus. Their innocence prevents them from being condemned, so if this tribe remains isolated they're far better off than to be corrupted by, at the very least, western standards.

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I had never thought of it like that. Kinda goes with John 9:41?

John 9:41
Jesus said to them "if blind ye were, not ever ye had sin.
Yet now, ye are saying that 'we are seeing', the sin of ye is remaining".

Reve 3:18
I am advising thee to buy beside of Me gold, having been fired out of fire, that thou should be being rich,
and white garments, that thou may be being clothed and no may be being made manifest the vileness of the nakedness of thee,
and eye-salve to annoint the eyes of thee, that thou may be seeing
[Luke 16:19-26/John 9:39]

Please correct me if I am wrong, but is the Indian government "studying" these people as if they are zoo animals?

GoingByzantine said:

Please correct me if I am wrong, but is the Indian government "studying" these people as if they are zoo animals?

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Anthropologists study cultures all the time

ebia said:

Anthropologists study cultures all the time

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They do, but I question the motives of this expedition.
1.) What is the nature/goals of this study.
2.) Is this study worth the health and stability of the native population.
3.) Does the Indian government have any justifiable reason for conducting this study. Whatever the maps might say, it is not their land, it is the natives land.

There are ethical considerations that I worry are not being met:
1.) Did the natives give consent to be part of a "study", are they aware that they are being studied?
2.) Was there a risk management assessment conducted?
3.) Are the native people having their privacy respected? Based on the fact that the whole world now knows of their existence thanks to this study, I sort have doubt it.

Historically, government sponsored anthropological expeditions often lead to dependence and exploitation in the long run.

GoingByzantine said:

They do, but I question the motives of this expedition.
1.) What is the nature/goals of this study.

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I've no idea.

2.) Is this study worth the health and stability of the native population.

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I've no idea.

3.) Does the Indian government have any justifiable reason for conducting this study. Whatever the maps might say, it is not their land, it is the natives land.

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That never bothered the imperial powers in the past. It's a bit rich for us to tell India the islands aren't there's or what they can or can't do with them. Comparitively, they seem to have been much more hands off and protecting of these people that pretty much any other example by any government anywhere.

There are ethical considerations that I worry are not being met:
1.) Did the natives give consent to be part of a "study", are they aware that they are being studied?

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Do groups normally consent to study by anthropologists?

2.) Was there a risk management assessment conducted?

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I would imagine so.

3.) Are the native people having their privacy respected? Based on the fact that the whole world now knows of their existence thanks to this study, I sort have doubt it.

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There existence has been public knowledge for a long time. It's just caught a bit of media attention again, as it has before.

Historically, government sponsored anthropological expeditions often lead to dependence and exploitation in the long run.

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GoingByzantine said:

Please correct me if I am wrong, but is the Indian government "studying" these people as if they are zoo animals?

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Well said.

We both know history and we both know what happens when outsiders get involved with an Indigenous population.

We know the kind of corruption, damage and devastation such intrusion and invasion can bring, especially when religion is involved.

WarriorAngel said:

Maybe you should curb your opinion on religion getting involved.
The Lord wants it - and just because ppl learn of Him doesnt mean it changes their way of life - it only improves it by giving them peace in their hearts.
As i said before - we do not know what questions they may wish answered on where they came from - and who God is.

Only God knows what they seek and He answers - by sending out His ppl ...
IF all actually and truly lived the Lord's way - life would be nearly [for lack of a better word] utopia.

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I'm more than aware of the history of the immeasurable damage, devastation and destruction that Christianity can bring when its followers get involved in an Indigenous population. I would very much like to see these people spared that kind of possible devastation and destruction of their own culture, traditions and spirituality.

Red Fox said:

I'm more than aware of the history of the immeasurable damage, devastation, and destruction that Christianity can bring when its followers get involved in an Indigenous population. I would very much like to see these people spared that kind of possible devastation and destruction of their own culture, traditions and spirituality.

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