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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.
In star trek tng during one ofnthe first contact episodes picard says that to instantly transform a society with technology would be harmful and destructive and its why they don't uplift primative civilizations and instead wait until they achieve warp and even then still leave it to them to work out most of the other stuff
Go look at Africa and how fucked up they are because we tried to give them technology that was thousands of years beyond their mud huts
Just thousands? If we could magically isolate sub-Saharan Africa and fastforward 10,000 years, I still don't think they'd invent cellphones and airplanes. 5,000 years ago, Ancient Egypt existed right next door with all the ancient era tech, and their nearby African neighbors still didn't figure out the wheel or buildings before colonization.
Indonesians made it to Madagascar before Africans did.
They can BARELY do agriculture for crying out loud! They're many many thousands of years behind.