#sentinelese

What an absolutely fucked thing to do, he made multiple attempts knowing that the community is against this. Not to mention that the Sentinelese had killed someone who did this in 2018 and the police just went 🤷🏻‍♀️

The issue of race really gets put into perspective when you understand what a genetic bottleneck modern humans are. That we are not only all one species but all one subspecies. That we all ultimately descend from dark-skinned Africans, with light skin evolving relatively late. Similarly, the idea that any one ethnicity is more or less intelligent falls apart when you learn that full human intelligence evolved before modern humans.

Evolution would also become less touchy if more people actually understood that we are the last in a long line of human species rather than directly descended from apes.

There would be less trendy diet bullshit if we all had a basic understanding of how our prehistoric ancestors ate. No "humans are herbivores" if you know that even the earliest humans were eating meat. No raw meat bullshit if you know that humans have been cooking since Homo erectus and that we as a species evolved to eat cooked meat. There's even a theory that more easily digestible cooked meat freed up energy that allowed our brains to get as big as they are!

You're less likely to waste your time looking for shit like Atlantis, Mu, or Lemuria if you know about actual sunken landmasses like Doggerland, Sahul, and Sundaland.

Also, the unga bunga caveman stereotype is bullshit and ultimately rooted in racism. Prehistoric people did not live in caves, and they didn't only wear crude furs. They lived in houses like anyone else, and some wore very elaborate clothing, as in this reconstruction of the Gravettian culture by Libor Balák:

We can distinguish distinct cultures going back to the early paleolithic based on what art, jewelery, or tools they have left behind.

Not to mention, there are many cultures that have retained a paleolithic way of life into modern times, like the Sentinalese:

Note that not one person in this photo is dragging a club or a woman by her hair.

If offering that person a coke might get you killed and a guy decides to take on the risk and try anyway, isn't that kind of on him?

This is about the Sentinel Islands.

Perhaps the most remote group of humans on planet Earth, the Sentinelese have lived completely out of contact with the outside world on North Sentinel Island in India's Bay of Bengal for some 60,000 years. Because the tribe is hostile to outsiders and has even killed those who have gotten too close, the Indian government doesn't allow anyone within three miles of the island and has even prohibited photography.