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𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘢𝘒𝘸𝘰𝘬𝘸𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘩, or North Sentinel Island, home of one of Earth’s few other groups of 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴 (1240×904) (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 10 months ago by lars@lemmy.sdf.org to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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Most humans, including you, belong to the 99.9999% of Homo sapiens that are isolated from the much smaller isolated groups left. North Sentinel Island, which is nominally governed by India, is home of one of the very few smaller ones. Its locals number in the few hundreds and have likely been there and rejected outsiders for thousands of years.

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[–] survivalmachine 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There was a big story about them rejecting an outsider a while back.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A Christian missionary tried to visit and bring its modern diseases. The Sentinilese fired warning shots but the missionary kept coming right for them, so they had to put it down.

[–] survivalmachine 3 points 10 months ago

I can't really get behind your tendency to refer to humans as "it", but other than that, you seem to understand the facts clearly enough.

[–] GnomeComedy 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Wait.

So the average temperature fluctuates between 86F in summer to 73F in winter, surrounded by beaches AND they can ignore most of the world?

I'm jealous.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

Seriously but also not: omg I know right?

On the other hand: can you imagine how regressively conservative—including in ways with which you cannot already be familiar—a society that small and that long isolated is? We know ≈nothing about them, but what we do know includes that women there once distracted the men from further attacking outsiders by way of sensual touch.

Finally, and for the armchair enthusiasts and especially for those of us who didn’t groan during the pandemic’s lockdowns: check out Tom Hanks in Cast Away.