no contact?

A fascinating article about a primitive island tribe in India that has had limited contact with the outside world.  It seems they kill mixed-race babies, which are occasionally fathered through the limited contact they have with outsiders.  Murdering babies based on their race our fatherhood is clearly beyond the pale for most of us, but is it really right to again try the “civilization” experiment?  I think we can agree that has had mixed results.  Fortunately, this one is not an American problem but is up to the Indians to figure out.

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  1. Rosa

    This was an interesting article – it’s too bad they didn’t (maybe they couldn’t for lack of knowledge?) write more about the tribe’s belief system and the taboo against outsiders. Clearly the taboo is changing since the tribe is willing to have interactions with outsiders that they were not having before. Some quick thoughts I had while reading the article: Is it right to enforce a ban on interactions that the tribe itself is not interested in upholding? Where does safety and respect cross the line into paternalism, benevolent or not?

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