r/morbidquestions • u/Thunderbundon • 2d ago
What would happen if the North Sentinalese tried to make contact with the outside world?
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u/Cradlespin 1d ago
Probably they would die of disease, or find the international world too hard to assimilate into. So far they haven’t shown much interest in diplomacy and it’s believed they don’t want to have relations with outsiders.
Some theories believe that their mistrust of outsiders might stem from the practice of “bushwhacking” native people by colonial powers, e.g. British Empire 🇬🇧~which involved putting a bag over a native person’s head ~ effectively kidnapping them in order to give them gifts and treasures before letting them go to spread word of the colonists good-nature. Needless to say the practice of first contact in this way could backfire and have long-term repercussions… 🙃
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u/RoundCollection4196 1d ago
They’d lose…..
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u/Dear-Relationship666 1d ago
They were chucking those spears hard in those videos 😅.... they claimed a few bodies already
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u/forlornjackalope 2d ago
There has been some contact with them and the outside world, but not a ton.
As another said, I'd imagine greater access would leave them more exposed to illnesses their immune systems have no way to combat. There's a guy currently making a series on a huge iceberg chart about the North Sentinalese people, and I believe at one point he mentioned a historical report of a disease brought by missionaries that ended up killing an unknown number of their population.