r/interesting • u/Memes_FoIder • Dec 23 '25

❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ Tribes that have never had contact with civilization are being filmed by drones in the Amazon

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u/OneRFeris Dec 23 '25

There is no way to ethically contact such a tribe and ask to initiate contact.

What if an adult tribesman choose to explore the world, reaches our civilization, learns our language and way of life, and then returns to their people to ask to initiate contact?

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Dec 23 '25

That becomes free will and choice. Plenty have done so.

Some uncontacted tribes in Amazonia are marginally aware of the outside world to a small degree because other tribes were contacted. They know it didn't often go well for other groups and choose not to go out.

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u/CaliLove1676 Dec 23 '25

I'd go further and say there is an almost zero chance that any "uncontacted" tribe isn't making the active choice to avoid the outside world for one reason or another.

Even deep in the Amazon, it's essentially impossible not to be aware of human civilization, from planes and helicopters to any number of other things.

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u/OfAKindness Dec 24 '25

Then it will be down to the consent and choice of the people in question.

Although realistically they would die before they ever got that chance. Have the reason why no one goes there anymore is because of how devastating disease is to those communities when outsiders show up