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“When it arrived, everyone was happy,” said Tsainama Marubo, 73, sitting on the dirt floor of her village’s maloca, a 50-foot-tall hut where the Marubo sleep, cook and eat together. The internet brought clear benefits, like video chats with faraway loved ones and calls for help in emergencies. “But now, things have gotten worse,” she said.
She was kneading jenipapo berries to make a black body paint and wearing ropes of jewelry made from snail shells. Lately, the youth had become less interested in making such dyes and jewelry, she said. “Young people have gotten lazy because of the internet,” she said. “They’re learning the ways of the white people.”
Then she paused and added, “But please don’t take our internet away.”
I watched a snippet of the documentary about this and apparently they've had phones there for years to communicate and take pics in the jungle. They just recently got Starlink. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
I watched a snippet of the documentary about this and apparently they've had phones there for years to communicate and take pics in the jungle. They just recently got Starlink.
Right. And they would connect to the internet when they would go into town.
And Starlink has already saved lives for stuff like snakebites.
As always, the internet is a double-edged sword. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
I watched a snippet of the documentary about this and apparently they've had phones there for years to communicate and take pics in the jungle. They just recently got Starlink.
Yeah, some of the "no-contact" is bullshit... I found the facebook/instagram thing kind of fascinating and you can find them with a simple facebook search. The guy who brought Starlink to the tribe has several public posts about being in the NY Times and so forth and it shows he graduated from college and works at some IT shop IIRC. And several others show having jobs and so forth.
So, overall seems like a few have left the tribe over the years and while some who stayed back may have technically had no direct contact with the outside world, they aren't completely oblivious to it either. [Reply]
"Used to be we would knead jenpapo berries for healing syrup. Now they spend all their time making TikTok recipes with Fritos and cheese products..." [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bearcat:
Yeah, some of the "no-contact" is bullshit... I found the facebook/instagram thing kind of fascinating and you can find them with a simple facebook search. The guy who brought Starlink to the tribe has several public posts about being in the NY Times and so forth and it shows he graduated from college and works at some IT shop IIRC. And several others show having jobs and so forth.
So, overall seems like a few have left the tribe over the years and while some who stayed back may have technically had no direct contact with the outside world, they aren't completely oblivious to it either.
There are only a few tribes left that are truly no-contact, some in the Amazon and one of the tribes on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. [Reply]
