Sometimes, when I walk through international airports, I get a little sad about the homogeneity of homo sapiens. I guess it's an inevitable by-product of globalization and modernity, but I can't help but wish that we didn't all drink Starbucks and wear Nike shoes and listen to Rihanna on our iPods.
So when I see pictures like this (and you better click on that link) I'm utterly shocked. The world isn't all flat: somewhere, somehow, members of my own species are living a completely different sort of life. And then I wonder what the people in red body paint were thinking. Did they just discover a new God?
Check out the rest of the site while you're there. It's awesome. Via kottke.
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I think I read elsewhere that the majority of these tribes are aware of at least the existence of the industrialized world; however, there are also some tribes that are truly un-contacted.
Mind boggling. Now I want to rent the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. Isn't it funny that an image like this fills us with hope. Hope for what, exactly? That this precarious hold we have on the things that are so near and dear to us - technology, fashion, money, food, indoor swimming pools - has a backup plan? It's nice to know that, somewhere, people exist without the technological and scientific crutches of the modern world.
Posted by: Rachael | June 4, 2008 7:20 PM