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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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[โ€“] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Theyve interacted with outsiders to varying degrees...

They were trading for iron just a couple of years before that idiot missionary got it his head god wanted them converted. And they gave him a couple chances.

[โ€“] DoctorSpocktopus@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

His Twitter exists still, itโ€™s a little eerie

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