North Sentinel Island: The Truth Behind the World's Most Isolated Tribe
2024 ж. 18 Ақп.
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Uncover the mysterious history of North Sentinel Island, home to the enigmatic Sentinelese tribe. From ancient maps to modern encounters, explore the dilemmas of isolation, violence, and the quest for knowledge. Island of Good Fortune awaits - delve into the secrets of this untouched realm now!
These people have survived on their own for many generations. They don't need us. Let them have their little paradise in peace.
Its the true garden of eden
I'm genuinely surprised that they're not incredibly inbred.
After the snake, then, since they kill people.
They are protected by law to be left alone. (And it's not Eden, it's earth)
Oh but we need you so much for your wisdom. Thanks
They aren't bothering anyone and have made it abundantly clear that they want to be left alone.
I don't understand why there would need to be a debate on how the situation should be handled. Oblige their request to be left alone. 'Merica, were usually the equivalent of a kid poking a coiled up snake with a stick. And when strikes back we get upset. I guess we got this from Papa Britain. Just leave others the F**k alone.
They dont known whats good for them
@@hatkid3093 Ones who lack that knowledge even more are the looney tunes who think as you wrote (I think it's sarcasm) and decide to go there.
If there was oil there, the US would have colonised them by now. We need to just leave them alone, and drop an iPad on the island just for shits and giggles lol
Totally agree. I agree with keep watch but keep away.
They take "GET OFF MY LAWN!" to a whole new level
Iconic honestly
Possibly descended from Yorkshire farmers? “Git orrrf moi laaand”
More like -get off my beach! 🏖️ ya germ ridden raiders!
They have extremely good reasons for wanting nothing to do with foreigners. The laws to protect them and their island are not there for fun. FAFO.
I would say it is more a "MAKE SENTINEL GREAT AGAIN"- policy......
Indian here, Andaman Islands chain has enough naval presence, in other islands. There's a large scale tourism as well, especially near Port Blair and Neil & Ross Islands, with fantastic resorts and 5 star hotels. You can look it up. Radhanagar beach in Andamans is ranked regularly in the best beaches of the world, by Lonely planet & Time Magazine etc. But we the people and government have decided to leave this one island alone , because we know that the Sentinalese do not have any immunity of modern diseases. And any modern human presence there would lead to immediate annihilation of their people caused by Flu , or Small Pox etc.
You are undoubtedly correct about the viral threat to the Sentinelese, though not through smallpox. According to the World Health Organization, that disease has been eradicated in the world; the only known human disease to have done so. Smallpox now only exists on laboratory shelves. People older than 50 years are the last generation to have been vaccinated against that disease, so if there ever is a *real* "Wuhan," only some older parents and grandparents will have an immunity to it. I remember the huge push to vaccinate us, all the children in the country and I was one of them. We were vaccinated in school. We all lined up in the gym and got the vaccine via a 4-pronged stamp that we all got in our upper arms. Those vaccines have caused a starburst pattern scars on those of us to have very large scars that last for the rest of one's life. Some have more serious scars than others; it's always in the deltoid muscle of one of the upper arms.
History has already proven otherwise, though.
I think that is the best way. Try to minimise contact with them as much as possible. Both for the high risk of infections but also because it will destroy their culture. As scientists in a situation like this we cannot measure or even observe without altering and changing what we want to study.
And I'm sure they don't call themselves Sentinalese.
@@Maliceah obv.
If you lived on your own little island and your family and neighbors got sick and possibly died any time people came, yeah I don't think you'd trust outsiders either.
IF all the existence you can remember you've been like "Outsiders? FCK tho ppl! All they do is send garbage onto our beaches, ruining them" ...and that'd be understandable
@@djdrack4681 Garage? I assume you mean garbage.
@@djdrack4681nah, 100% sending garages to the island, its for their fancy sports cars
@@Nurichiritypo lol. sounds funnier tho.
That was my thought. The first time, "Maybe these guys were dicks and others will be nice?" A couple visits later, "Nope! Fuck all of those outsiders! They visit, and suddenly, we have sickness and death that's never happened to us. No more of this shit!"
Tragic? Please he knowingly went was shot with an arrow survived and then went back. Just another Darwin award winner
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I have no condolences for him.
A religious fanatic who just knew they wanted to learn all they could about Jezus and maybe hold hands while singing Kumbaya.
Exactly, he knew he wasn’t welcome.
And who else would be more deserving than a damned missionary, right? Set out to ruin their culture with religious horse shit, ended up getting what he deserved. No sympathy.
if you haven't seen it, there's a documentary on the missionary guy by National Geographic (so I think its on Disney +) that was really good. really shows how both obsessed and insanely naïve he was.
Missionaries, man. Can’t stop bothering people.
Yeah, religious freedom - as long as its their religion and their freedom to try to force it on the rest of us.
I have a friend that has gone on a few missionary trips, I'm pagan BTW. I asked her what they did when they went. She said they sang them songs. I was confused. They spent all that money for flights, hotels and food to sing to orphans in orphanages. Wouldn't it have been better to send them the money they spent on the trip? They could've used that for things they needed. But I guess they wouldn't have that nice trip.
@@willowthistle3648 you're totally right but they live in a delusion
The money used on all the trips to go there and "help" locals is literally better used to give resources so the locals and become more self sufficient
@@willowthistle3648Their objective isn't to help people, it's to save souls. They think their god will be pleased with them for bringing more people to him. The god who apparently created everyone, needs their help to put him in contact with others... It's incredibly stupid stuff when you give it even 2 seconds thought.
I believe that the Sentinelese desire for isolation trumps our curiosity . I think they should be left alone .
its not curiosity its arrogance that people think they want to live like modern people and aren't happy being like they are.
@@kirtose And in this case, religious zealotry and the belief, that their "God" gives them the right to ignore all Earthly laws and the wishes and rights of any1 else.
@kirtose If you look at past interactions between developed societies and those that aren't, the mobility is (To within a statistically insignificant margin.) entirely one way. Which is a long winded way of saying, everyone who has a choice and knows the options does in fact seem to prefer living with modern medicine and electricity over wondering where their next meal is coming from, and watching their parents die young, their wives die in childbirth, and most their children die before adulthood.
@@matthewfarrell1763 how arrogant of you. Those people are perfectly fine without our “modern medicine.” They are not stupid like you’re insinuating them to be because they don’t know these things “exist.” They might not be aware to what extent how the modern world differs from their traditional world, but I’m sure they’ve realized from the few interactions that they’ve had with us they realize we have certain things that might be beneficial based on the gifts they’ve received. Yet, they have decided the harm of integrating into our culture is far more harmful than simply hunting for their food. And I agree with them. Sure, we might have modern medicine, but we also have war/abuse/racism/classism/sexism/r@pe/global warming/homelessness/@ids etc. The list goes on. Our modern world isn’t as great as you think it is. They are happy with the food that they have and their natural medicines. They do not want to be like us. It’s pretty simple to comprehend 🙄
@@dfuher968 “Earthly laws”, you’re no better than any zealot you preach against, hypocrite.
I have aggressively swallowed up every scrap of information available on the Sentalese and I find them fascinating. They are as close to a snap shot of a thousand plus years ago as we have. Also I give all accolades to the Indian government for their ",hands off policy" in a world where we all too often destroy such things even through good intentions.
Don't you mean 10,000 years ago? A thousand years ago was the Middle Ages where the Holy Roman Empire was the most powerful state, paper money was invented, cathedrals and castles were lived in, and the Islamic caliphates were experiencing their Golden Age.
Theyre a bunch of tribal cannibals. What's interesting?
That's one way to see it. Another is that these are people who have been surviving as long as we all have, evolving as long as we all have, and yet they've made due with the technology they wield. They're not just a snapshot of neolithic life, they're also just as culturally developed and involved as any other human. What we miss out on in insight by closely studying them we gain by their purity. They're an example of indigenous life that was never colonized. Where else? It's interesting to think, though, that if one surveyor managed to find phosphate rock or some other mineral asset, things would have gone much differently for these people. They've done right by fragging every dude that comes ashore.
Australian aboriginals are more primitive and it's a closely guarded secret by the Australian govt.
If im correct these are the people that dismantled a ship that had landed and the next time they were observed they had metal tipped weapons and make shift metal gear. Im not sure if that was an uncontacted in the amazon im thinking of but honestly one of the best ways we could help these people is dropping a few supply drops of different types of metals so they can retain the same lifestyle but have more lethality for personal/protective purposes. One could also argue the best way to help would be to not think about how to help but to just appreciate and respect the existence of them in their current state.
There's a really good documentary about the missionary who tried to visit the island and his death. His father doesn't blame the North Sentinelese in the slightest. There's a much better argument for leaving them alone than there is for continuing to try to bother them when they clearly don't want anyone else around
Well yeah, his father is the one to blame here.
@@bigjared8946 And why is that, bud?
@@griffinmckenzie7203 How does someone so young end up so brainwashed and deluded without the parents directly making that happen? They sent him to some certifiably nutter private schools K-12 and I doubt his home life was any better.
@@bigjared8946I was just watching a video where some Jewish mom tried to argue with the host of cosmos because her son came back from Hebrew school and said that god didn’t create the universe, that the Big Bang did; and I find it fascinating how your family can really set how your brain works for the rest of your life. Religion being a huge example.
@bigjared8946 His dad actually blamed the Christian communities he was a part of for brainwashing and radicalizing his son.
You can guarantee that the "leave them alone" policy wouldnt apply if (a) this island was a good naval base, or (b) oil/minerals were discovered there
There are naval bases on surrounding islands..
It is actually a good location for a naval base, but the Indian government is not taking it over until there is a threat in that area.. They would have already taken over it if the island was near the other side at lakshdweep as there is a foe Pakistan
Does it have oil? I can hear the songs of my people loading up on warships if it does.
Indian here, Andaman Islands chain has enough naval presence, in other islands. There's a large scale tourism as well, especially near Port Blair and Neil & Ross Islands. You can look it up. Radhanagar beach in Andamans is ranked regularly in the best beaches of the world, by Lonely planet & Time Magazine etc. But we the people and government have decided to leave this one island alone , because we know that the Sentinalese do not have any immunity of modern diseases. And any modern human presence there would lead to immediate annihilation of their people caused by Flu , or Small Pox etc.
@@imonghosh912 You know that NS island is very near Duncan straight, 90% of exports from ASEAN to EMEA crosses thorough there.... you can never have enough Naval presence for such important trade route. It can be a very important strategic stronghold if there is a conflict in future
I personally think that the government of India has it right, and yes it does pain me to type that about any government, but when any government gets something right about anything then that government deserves credit.
What’s remarkable is that there are fewer inhabitants on the island than the number of channels Simon has.
🤣 Well said, sir.
Damn this is the first time I’ve heard about the female doctor’s contact with the Sentinalese. Thank you for presenting extremely well researched videos!
you'll see her in the original 20 min docu - Man in search of Man
I don't doubt Madhumala Chattopadhyay's academic credentials as worthy of being chosen as being the first (maybe only?) woman to visit the island, but I'd say that the fact that she was also relatively no 'oil painting' also contributed to that choice. If you think that comment disrespectful towards Chattopadhyay, then I don't care as you're a fool. If you think that allowing a very attractive woman to go to such a place, and that such really doesn't matter, then you really don't understand 'human nature', and the Sentinalese are undoubtely humans. And if you think my whole comment was somehow disrespectful or unwarrented, yet again I don't care as you're a fool - such considerations are very important. Simple as.
@@sunnyjim1355 bro you tripping 😅. Who are you ranting against? 😅 No one even said anything to you. She just said it's a good video. You need psychiatric help.
The Sentinelese have made it abundantly clear they don’t want anything to do with outsiders. I’m curious too, but we need to leave them alone.
There are many hunter-gatherer isolated tribes in the Amazonian rainforest that have never made contact with the outside world, these are groups of a few hundred people, some may not even reach 100. Many of these isolated groups could have been wiped out by illegal miners and loggers over the decades, and we would never know.
Probably still happening
Though it would be interesting to study their way of life, I believe that it's best we leave them alone.
Interesting for who? Certainly not them..
@@Chris-hx3om for almost everyone else? He never said that we should do it, on the contrary, we should leave them alone. Doesnt make them less interesting
@@Chris-hx3om Anthropology is an interesting area of study to all humans - simple as that. It's simply just curiosity about ourselves in the natural world. I'm sure that would also include the Sentinalese... or are you claiming they aren't 'human' then? Now, whether they 'need' it or not is a totally different argument to 'interest'. That you can't seem to understand the basic difference between 'need' and 'curiousity' makes me wonder if you are human. 🙄
Yea, a place on my “do not visit list”. Locals do NOT want to be bothered. At almost 40, I am beginning to see why they want nothing to do with the rest of the world.
You're doing better than me then - I've arrived at that stage at 29!
This is the most serious game of fuck around and find out. Leave people alone
Johnathan Allen Chou: FAFO champion of 2017
The James Webb telescope wasn't built to map the stars. It was built to get all of Simon's channels in one picture
How about for once we just leave them alone? They aren't bothering anyone.
How enlightened and intelligent would that be?
@@1whitkatactually, very much so. Which makes it unlikely to happen
@@killahp123 Precisely.
Even though they're clearly inbreeding like crazy. But they have black skin so who cares?
@@1whitkat Not very. We learn more by studying them.
Simon’s beard looks like it’s ready for its own KZhead channel.
I would subscribe
Beardprojects
History's important bear'ers ? Beardwearers ftw ? Ignore the ftw part
This made me laugh more than it should have 😂
LEAVE THESE PEOPLE ALONE. Jesus christ.. let them live in peace. If I could choose to live on a remote island without society, I'd be on a makeshift canoe in seconds. Let's not corrupt the last people on earth who know what true happiness is.
True happiness?! How did you evaluate their happiness? Is true happiness living a superstitious and ignorant life, dying from preventable diseases where you angrily try to kill anyone who approaches you unprovoked? I agree that we should leave them alone but do not romanticize their primitive culture as if it is the peak of human achievement.
@@lukeulibarri3924sounds like Alabama.
I like to imagine Simon starts his workweek by sitting at his desk before opening any messages from his writers and asking himself, "Alright, which random topic am I going to sound vaguely educated on this time?"
He's only doing what presenters have been doing ever since tv has been invented, nothing wrong with that.
@@marktg98 Make no mistake, I'm not criticizing him, I was just making a silly joke based on what probably isn't too far from the truth, lol. It's a career path many people could only dream of, and I'm happy that his particular life circumstances allowed him to pursue it.
Simon even states that most of what he reads goes through his head and out into the void. I like it when he's doing a video and has talked about it before and has no recollection of it.
@@danielreuben1058 Me too, he's very honest and humble about it, which is in itself a breath of fresh air. He's a very genuine and wonderful guy.
@@danielreuben1058 too bad he cant do that with most of the casual criminalist stuff he reads. Its like he forgets everything else, but those stories stick like glue.
Prime Directive, Simon. That’s my vote.
Don't tell Janeway
Absolutely!
@@AeonshieldOr Kirk. LOL But for the record, I agree. Leave them alone. They don't need or want us. We need to respect that.
This story has fascinated me since I first heard about it!
ANOTHER channel, factboi? If I have to hand this man another sub I'll be legally declared a sandwich shop.
it’s cause he left the geographics channel since he didn’t technically own it and just hosted it so this is Simon’s owned equivalent and although he didn’t technically own it, in my opinion geographics is definitely going to die success wise without him
This is a brilliant comment 🤣
This channel seems better. Eventhough Simon is just a narrator; The adverts that became feature on the other channels went off the rails. I can understand trying to pay the bills. But those channels were rife with greed. I’ll sub until my time becomes needlessly wasted. Everybody deserves a second chance. Future will tell.
They are happy and in no danger other than from outsiders, so leave them alone. I don't know who got the idea in their head that we as a society have the right to conquer, control and understand everything on this planet. We don't, especially if by doing so causes much more harm than good.
Happy to see this again, you last presented this story before on Geographics 3 years ago Simon
Geographics ain't one of the channel's he owns.....just presented.......welcome the flood of new yet old content....
@@lukedowdall5172 For those of us following Simon on his channels for a long time We are well aware of that. Rather obvious 😅
@@eaphantom9214 Also, also, I would like to add, that we are very much happy to watch/listen old content again. Thank you very much 🎉
Yeah, I think AI is generating the same videos again and again now. I don't think it makes new channels in YT as proficiently as Simon yet :p
This was a very informative video. Thank you.
in answer to Simon's summing up .. i say hands off & leave them in peace
Love the British brain here. “There’s this undeveloped land full of people who don’t want us there. Should we invade them?”
This was a very informative video, well done.
Dear Simon, it’s always such a pleasure to hear your eloquent tones, precision delivery and quirky insights with your well researched and educated content. Ahhh so good 😊
The Sentinelese have told us, repeatedly, to leave them alone. The modern world could force it's way in and subjugate the islanders, but it hasn't. That's the best way to eventually earn their trust, but not forcing contact. Since their society is obviously constantly evolving, perhaps they will get to a point where they want to learn about the rest of the world.
They’ve had hundreds of years to try to explore the constantly changing world and they’ve made it more than clear they have no interest in such changes. Just pretend they literally do not exist.
Their society is not 'constantly evolving' at all. They've been there 50 000 years. They're hard-stuck stone age, like all blacks.
Not sure they have evolved much if they don't know how to make paddles or create fire tbh lol
@@poip202 youre just using our known baseline as the standard for evolution. they have evolved at a pace that suits their environment
Exactly - they are well aware that there are other humans out there, living a different way to them. If and when they want to make contact, the door will be open.
I love this new channel!
Very interesting. Well researched.
I'd say leave these people alone. There is absolutely no reason why we need to force on them our way of life, laws, religions, or any other aspect of our lives. They have existed and thrived without us for thousands of years so while I obviously cannot speak for them I'd guess they'll do just fine as they have always lived.
The Sentinelese are basically me when anyone rings my doorbell. If you’re on my porch and you don’t have a pizza you can buzz right off
May they never run out of arrows.
Another brilliant Biographics. Thank you.
One of the most profound things Anthropologists always say is to leave them alone if they want to left alone ! The Sentinelese actually accepted contact sometime in the 90s but I think that contact led to some people falling sick or dying. And they suddenly turned hostile again in the early 90s, after about 12 contacts. Since we don’t speak their language we don’t know what exactly may have happened. But then, they have been perfectly happy and have lived on those islands for 60000 years. They don’t need us.
Indent this story, very fascinating that this civilization has been able to stave off modern society and people from interacting with them by making sure anyone who sets foot on the island doesn’t live to tell the tale. Of course there are other isolated tribes in the Amazon that have also resisted and killed anyone who intrudes into their territory, but they are not as well known because of how difficult it is to get to them.
This is not a civilization. This is a primitive society. Civilizations have characteristics like agriculture, monetary systems, writing systems and educational institutions. All civilizations are societies but not all societies are civilizations.
Their land, their way of life, who are we to determine otherwise?
Just started this and I’m so pumped! There’s a great doc on the 2018 situation called “The Mission”
This situation is a perfect example of the need for a Prime Directive to forbid cultural contamination and a general quarantine to protect the uncontacted from outside disease.
They shot at a helicopter, a massive, loud, airborne monster they couldn't understand, with a bow? fuck isolation, turn them into warlords. they'd be terrifying.
The way the Indian Navy discovered that the North Sentinelese Islanders had survived the 2004 tsunami was when the North Sentinelese Islanders started shooting arrows and throwing spears at the helicopter when they saw it approach the island.
Good music on this one 👍🎶
Leave them alone guys they’ve been pretty clear on that one. we’ve got to get it right once in history
Chau’s intent to do mission work with the sentinelese is super well documented, included by his own journal. He even pursued his adventure stuff to further prepare him for this mission, though it sounds like he had an interest in outdoorsy stuff as a kid.
The religiously indoctrinated attempting to indoctrinate other makes my blood boil. The the hell give YOU the right to FORCE your beliefs in a fake god (or gods) on other people?
@@Chris-hx3om Precisely. It would be incredibly ironic if these missionaries spread diseases/bacteria to the tribes which they have zero immunity against, and completely wipe them out. They would be truly doing their God's work.
@@a_kuma I would posit that it would be less ironic and more inevitable...
Hey mate, how many KZhead channels do you have. You are one very busy man and I like all your different topics you talk about. Cheers
probably ♾️ at this point😂
Imagine if the developed world destroys itself in some nuclear war and these people had no idea about it. Crazy to think about
Great channel and much better narration style.
I really dislike having his death referred to as murder! The Sentinel island natives have every right to protect their home.
And let's be honest this man's intentions were basically cultural genocide. He wanted to convert and 'civilize' them
Right? And they may not have any concept of murder, or at least murder as we understand it. No one watching this video would think twice about shooting and killing someone invading their home. And that's not murder, it's self defense. So why would this be any different?
Plus, I have no idea how he planned to convert them to Christianity, considering not even experts know their language. He would have had to spend years there learning the language to even communicate the idea of Christianity. Dumb idea.
Same, it's self-defense. He likely would've infected them with any manner of deadly illnesses
Yup, this idiot turns up waving a book (that they have no concept of) whilst ranting in a language they dont know and walking towards them after being told to bugger off the first time. From their perspective this buffoon is a threat who wont back off. What an absolute clown, what did he think was going to happen?
They need to leave those people alone. Not everything in this world is meant to be touched by us
Finally you do my favorite topic
Hands off...people can be too curious for their own good. They clearly don't want to be bothered.
Honestly the only reason I see to establish a decent relation with them instead of leaving them alone is the fact that people keep accidentally ending up there. It’s within everyone’s best interest if we can communicate enough to say “we’re not here to hurt you, we’re just stuck until someone comes and gets us”. Other than that we really ought to let them be.
British said they were in India just for trade, look how that turned out ?
Dude how many channels do you have? I keep finding more!
what else do you expect from a staunch capitalist? 🤣
Ikr.. I thought this one was a knock off at first.
Thank you!
Moral of the story - leave them alone! They don't want our help.
Hands off, if it isn't broke don't fix it. They aren't asking for help. They have their best life style. They don't need our problems introduced to them.
Best way to study them is to leave them alone. Like the StarTreks Prime Directive
So interesting!
You actually got new information I didn't know and I read the whole Wikipedia page several times because I'm so fascinated by this topic
My doctor friend here met him.. and was really upset to learn that he went. He was told many times not to go
""It is absolutely imperative that we ... establish a set of rules for the preservation and isolation of that island. These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way." John Hammond, The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Hands off! Although, I wish there were a way to communicate with them at a distance. Never landing, but still able to talk with them and learning from them. But first and formost, hands off!
Absolutely hands-off approach in my opinion. Let them be, they obviously don't need us and don't want us on their island. And don't even get me started on the idea of bringing our beliefs and religions to them....
3 words....Leave Them ALONE !!!
Hands off!
How did I not know Simonbot had a new channel? He usually pushes them on his primary business blaze channel
i think it’s a bit more complicated than usual bc he left geographics since he didn’t technically own the channel and i have a feeling there could be issues if he started pushing this one since it’s so similar and not as simple as i just started a new channel but i really have no idea just a guess, another idea is maybe he doesn’t want to bring up the, tension isn’t the right word but, situation with the now owner of geographics since, from a video i watched from them explaining the situation, it doesn’t put them in a good light and simon probably doesn’t want to have to explain the new channel and bring that to more public attention
It took 300 years, repeated wars, acts of aggression and violence and poor to no contact. It took only 1 woman with familiarity of local languages and gifts of food to make contact with the Sentinelese😂
That's awesome!🎉
I agree to leave them alone. If they wanted contact, they would have made contact.
Not necessarily
Chau's visit was not altruistic. He was attempting to proselytize. He was the actual savage in that situation!
The religiously indoctrinated attempting to indoctrinate other makes my blood boil. The the hell give them the right to FORCE their beliefs in a fake god (or gods) on other people?
@@Chris-hx3omSame, and i’m always like what makes you think that You’re right that You got the special knowledge and out of every possibility in the universe you happen to find the real truth like nah that’s statistically unlikely and it’s so frustrating bc every person who tries to push their religion on others thinks that it’s justified since according to them it’s the truth, but they don’t always get that every other religious person of opposing religions also think that about themselves! and ppl who push religion but say that other religions shouldn’t force it on others is the most hypocritical frustrating thing. ik not everyone in every religion is like that though at all and there’s plenty of perfectly wonderful religious people out there
“I am the Way the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through me.” -Jesus of Nazareth
@@Medic545clearly delusional
These are people, not research subjects, and it would be wrong to disturb their privacy. If they ever purposefully and deliberately reach out to us, then we can talk. But otherwise, just no. Countless indigenous people across the world and time have had their lives ruined because of outside interference, I don't want that for these people.
Wow Simon has a Ton of channels now.
Another Simon channel??!?! Simon please do a Mega Projects about your empire on April 1st!
I believe hands off is the best policy. While the Sentinelese may "not know better", they've made clear that they don't want outside input (as with all societies, there have been some smaller groups that were open to it but the larger group isn't, and the larger group will suffer anything that goes wrong like disease). If we remain hand's off it will allow for future study as well. Today we can't study this truly unique society without being seen and interfering but in 10-20 years we could use camoflaged drones or higher definition monitoring techniques to study them without being seen. The Sentinelese aren't going anywhere unless we do something to hurt their people / damage their way of life. The only incentive to rush interaction is the pride of those who want to be the first to do it, most likely at the expense of the last truly autonomous group on the planet. Leave them alone unless we have tech that allows us to do it right, they'll survive until then.
What we think we can learn is surely not more valuable than just leaving them them alone. There's no scientific value, only curiousity. We aren't going to discover a new medicinal breakthrough or find a solution to our energy needs. Humans hate mysteries, but this one doesn't need solving.
Humans make up shit when there's a mystery, like 'god did it' when the truth is 'we don't know'. The uneducated just love to implement 'the god of the gaps'...
There was an episode of Stat Trek that had a un contacted tribe. They were protected by a shield to protect them.
Damit. How is there another Simon channel I never knew existed. Man is insane.
Given modern human's ability to fully break anything it touches, let us respect the hands off method and observe from a distance, as we well could do if we where truly so inspired.
I feel like the Prime Directive should apply here. these people do not want us there, us going there will cause them great harm even with the best intentions. There is no reason why we should push our cultures and values on them. There is not even an argument about resources or strategic value, the island as said is worthless. This is actually a proving ground for the future of space travel. all of these things will be important considering factors if we actually find intelegent life especially if that life is less socially and technologically developed.
Yes, although we should definitely get some cameras and recording devices onto the island. Sanitize them and sneak in at night to put them up. Studying them in that way would be unprecedented, since every other tribe has been studied by a human interacting with them. Being able to observe them and decode the language without interaction would be pretty revolutionary
@@pauld.b7129jesus christ, they’re people not animals in a blue planet documentary. Doubt you would like it if someone hid cameras in your house to watch you without your knowledge
@@pauld.b7129isn’t this why we have drones?
I think it’s a lot more likely we may encounter life that is more advanced than we are, in which case, we had better hope they are more developped in terms of empathy and ethics, in addition to tech. If not, we are gonna be so fucked
@@pauld.b7129this has to be satire. You really don’t see them as people huh?
Leave them alone. Good video.
SW is the best narrator on the planet... Whistler rulz
We should let them be as they want as long as they don't harm people outside of their realm. The existence of this tribe is fascinating!
The changing camera angle for no apparent reason is a bit distracting.
Your curiosity doesn't cancel out their right to be left alone. Leave. Them. Alone.
Leave those people alone. Living their best lives out there in paradise, they don't need no one.
What if we went to North Sentinel Island and realized that the tribe there actually had more advanced technology than the rest of the world?… That’d be funny.
Legend has it that North Sentinel Island, not Africa, is the real location of Wakanda.
Probably they do, that's probably why they don't want anyone to set foot on their Island to have their technology exposed 😳..
Fun Fact: The War Dogs are the name of the Wakandan Secret Service.
The answer is simple leave them alone if they have no desire to meet the outside world then we should respect them and leave them to their way of life
I got to sail right past north sentinel on a surf trip to the Andaman islands. I saw smoke from their fires rising.
I'd be fascinated to learn more about them, but I think we should all respect their wishes and leave them alone.
I say leave them alone. They clearly want to be left alone. And they're *far* better off without us. Would I love to learn about them and their history? Of course! But not at the risk of their health and culture. Every time an uncontested tribe gets contacted, a large percentage die due to disease and violence. And then, inevitably, their culture is irrevocably lost forever. Leave them be, they deserve the right to determine their own destiny, the same as the rest of us.
LOVE survival international. Their work is extraordinary.
Same and agreed.
Bro how many channels does Simon work for? It's like once a week i get a recommended video from a new channel I've never heard of, and somehow they always have like 50k+ views already in a like 4 hours...
Simon doesn’t work for Geographics anymore (turns out he didn’t own it even tho like everyone thought he did lol) so this is his equivalent which he owns now instead (don’t know about the ownership of his many other channels but i’d assume he owns at least some of them too)
Producer’s note: profile shots of Simon are jarring!
Drone flyby shots then?
so is the fake window and plant but i don’t think they’re changing anything soon lol
I beleive that the world needs to leave the Sentinelese alone, let them live as they please, and protect them and visitors from unfortunate meetings. These people are not harming anyone but for those who appear as if invading their home. They are within their rights to defend themselves and their families with all due prejudice, yes? We could learn some things from them if we were brave enough to build a bridge metaphorically, but honestly, what is expected to be learned? Their history as they know it from myths, legends and preserved stories of events that have occurred over 30,000 years? How they survive there? I'd imagine that the latter is very simple and easy to make out, so... we arent going to help them, will certainly be an interference to their lives, and a danger too with our cooties that can't harm us butcertainly can harm these pristine, unpolluted people. And the bit about seeking justice for humans they have killed, that's bullocks! Those who have died there due to iron-tipped arrows were breaking the law, sometimes many laws, and certainly seeking to establish their religion there in loving arrogance. They may not have a god or pantheon, you know. Christian Missionary efforts are causing far more harm than help, and it is truly arrogant to assume you have a right to force your views on anyone, much less an ancient people like the Sentinelese. Leave them be, let them have their island home, keep them safe from Interference, disease, and attempts to modernize or brainwash them with another's views.
It could be helpful if we could relay to them that they are protected, and people attempting to approach are not supposed to be there, and give them a way to call (push a button) to alert when people do approach. It seems like this could build a basic understanding that they are in no danger.
Exactly - they have not signed up for the laws and rules that most human societies have. It would be completely inappropriate to try to subject them to a ‘justice’ which they did not sign up for and have not agreed to.
@@ripn929707No no. They want to be left alone, do not build any bridge or way to call. No. All's well. Leave it be.
@@ripn929707 lol when my niece got grounded and her phone was taken away she would beg my parents to let her call her friends to tell her she couldn't talk on the phone....then she would talk on the phone. Your comment reminded me about that. We don't need to tell them we're not gonna mess with them. They'll know when we don't. But to tell them we're not gonna mess with them is messing with them....
@@willowthistle3648 you missed the point completely. When your niece goes to school, she can tell her friends. When her friends call, the parents can tell her friends. The information gets out there. You analogy is bullshit. We dont know that they dont uproot their camp, or sacrifice a virgin, every time someone steps foot on the island. And, people who was up on the shore from a ship sinking dont deserve to die for trying to live. It is not interference to create an understanding.