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"She believes anxieties about the Internet are inflated, and asserts that most tribespeople “wanted and deserved” access to the World Wide Web.' "
"Still, some officials in Brazil have criticized the rollout to the remote communities, saying special cultures and customs could now be lost forever. "
“This is called ethnocentrism,” Dutra said of such critiques.
“The white man thinking they know what’s best.”
I get really sick of the noble savage idea. Most cultures have a learning curve for new technology. They will screw up before they get better. Sort of like a 12 year old in puberty.
So then the academics say we shouldn't let them have it at all. Their primitive ways are speciali, while mine are not. It's deifying a false notion of existence, then thrusting it on people who don't want it.
This FUCKING right here. They will worship the ground walked on by some backwards culture then criticize their neighbors for "regressive old fashioned ideas that have no place in modern society." Muzzie good, white man bad.