watched a video with one of the last hunter gatherer tribes, in south america. one guy has a fortnite shirt
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@sun where was a documentary about a native tribe in south america that rejected modern life and still lived in the stone age, and later, when someone went there to see them, it turned out that they put on a show for the filming crew because they found it funny
@melonhusk @Inginsub in the video they had to be careful where they landed on the river shore because there was a different, uncontacted tribe that just kills outsiders immediately if they see them, even though the other tribe speaks the same language.
@melonhusk @Inginsub ecuador btw
@melonhusk @Inginsub another funny thing is someone on their crew got an eye infection but there was no hospital, one of the guys said take him to the shaman. they took him and the shaman said "there's nothing I can do, you need antibiotics"
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@Nudhul @Inginsub @melonhusk you watch enough of these videos and you realize everyone everywhere is just folks
@Nudhul @Inginsub @melonhusk we can't all get along because cultures are often incompatible and we have competing interests, but when you look inside a group everybody more or less cares about the same stuff. that's my current feeling
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There's also conscious and subconscious desires. A lot is linked to trust of your inner group for the survival of it.
There's also conscious and subconscious desires. A lot is linked to trust of your inner group for the survival of it.
@sun @Inginsub @melonhusk actually they're probably not too different from amish, in that they try their best to live without modern amenities, but they won't turn them down if its necessary.
@sun @Inginsub @Nudhul there's a a family who are Arhuaco people of La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and while they live in their pueblo and mostly sustain themselves they do go into the city to sell items and for medicine or medical assistance sometimes. Right now the woman has some sort of sickness related to to her reproductive system they're trying to raise money for.
I think a lot of these misconceptions are just attributed to ignorance, whether it's willful or unintentional. When people discuss Indigeneity it's usually in terms of the past or in a pan-indian concepts where everyone is the same. You don't even need to be brown or from the north american continent to be Indigenous, there are Indigenous people all over the world, even Europe. We all have different customs, beliefs, traditions, and ways of life.
Also why I have issues with the popularization of "two spirit" to be equated with transness or being gay. Two spirit is a pan indian term that takes away from specific beliefs and practices held by different tribes. Sipiniq is not the same as Muxe etc.
I think a lot of these misconceptions are just attributed to ignorance, whether it's willful or unintentional. When people discuss Indigeneity it's usually in terms of the past or in a pan-indian concepts where everyone is the same. You don't even need to be brown or from the north american continent to be Indigenous, there are Indigenous people all over the world, even Europe. We all have different customs, beliefs, traditions, and ways of life.
Also why I have issues with the popularization of "two spirit" to be equated with transness or being gay. Two spirit is a pan indian term that takes away from specific beliefs and practices held by different tribes. Sipiniq is not the same as Muxe etc.
@melonhusk @Inginsub @Nudhul I read a bunch about twospirit at one point and concluded that it was an artificial synthesis of a bunch of similar but unrelated ideas, and it appeared that marrying these people was never really respected just tolerated more or less at different times. maybe similar to shamans, being attributed a special but separate place in the tribe was actually a just a shitty consolation prize, but that's my uneducated observation
@sun @Inginsub @melonhusk the guy had an eye infection and the shaman didnt fix it by channeling ki energy???