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Originally Posted by SebC
I don't know about you guys, but if I were one of these people, and at some point I discovered that I could've lived my life with air conditioning and electricity but didn't because some activists thought my uncontactedness should be preserved, I'd be quite upset at said activists.
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Yeah, maybe.
It's interesting because back in the 80s, an uncontacted Mayan tribe in the Yucatan was dicovered while they were developing the area around Tulum. They were never forced to leave their village, but most young people have and now work in the hotel/tourist industry.
I wonder what the government in Brazil does to protect them from contact. You would think that by now, some logger or natural resource tycoon would have gone there and swindled the land away from them. If you went there in a helicoptor armed with a few modern deviced, you would probably be a god to them.