North Sentinel Island: The Truth Behind the World's Most Isolated Tribe

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  • Опубликовано: 18 фев 2024
  • Uncover the mysterious history of North Sentinel Island, home to the enigmatic Sentinelese tribe. From ancient maps to modern encounters, explore the dilemmas of isolation, violence, and the quest for knowledge. Island of Good Fortune awaits - delve into the secrets of this untouched realm now!

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  • @TheAvengeddonut
    @TheAvengeddonut 2 месяца назад +1827

    These people have survived on their own for many generations. They don't need us. Let them have their little paradise in peace.

    • @dustinnoneya3217
      @dustinnoneya3217 2 месяца назад +37

      Its the true garden of eden

    • @Kaltagstar96
      @Kaltagstar96 2 месяца назад

      I'm genuinely surprised that they're not incredibly inbred.

    • @dwashbur
      @dwashbur 2 месяца назад

      After the snake, then, since they kill people.

    • @billwheeler1213
      @billwheeler1213 2 месяца назад +103

      They are protected by law to be left alone. (And it's not Eden, it's earth)

    • @GWG-ib9cv
      @GWG-ib9cv 2 месяца назад +10

      Oh but we need you so much for your wisdom. Thanks

  • @borja1000
    @borja1000 2 месяца назад +905

    They aren't bothering anyone and have made it abundantly clear that they want to be left alone.

    • @fukkitful
      @fukkitful 2 месяца назад +30

      I don't understand why there would need to be a debate on how the situation should be handled. Oblige their request to be left alone.
      'Merica, were usually the equivalent of a kid poking a coiled up snake with a stick. And when strikes back we get upset. I guess we got this from Papa Britain. Just leave others the F**k alone.

    • @hatkid3093
      @hatkid3093 2 месяца назад +10

      They dont known whats good for them

    • @borja1000
      @borja1000 2 месяца назад +5

      @@hatkid3093 Ones who lack that knowledge even more are the looney tunes who think as you wrote (I think it's sarcasm) and decide to go there.

    • @mrboogang
      @mrboogang 2 месяца назад +7

      If there was oil there, the US would have colonised them by now. We need to just leave them alone, and drop an iPad on the island just for shits and giggles lol

    • @craycray375
      @craycray375 2 месяца назад +6

      Totally agree. I agree with keep watch but keep away.

  • @KymaniBrown-yn4pm
    @KymaniBrown-yn4pm 2 месяца назад +476

    They take "GET OFF MY LAWN!" to a whole new level

    • @EmberMoonprincess92
      @EmberMoonprincess92 2 месяца назад +5

      Iconic honestly

    • @nitramnitram1966
      @nitramnitram1966 2 месяца назад +5

      Possibly descended from Yorkshire farmers?
      “Git orrrf moi laaand”

    • @kateapple1
      @kateapple1 2 месяца назад +8

      More like -get off my beach! 🏖️ ya germ ridden raiders!

    • @dfuher968
      @dfuher968 2 месяца назад

      They have extremely good reasons for wanting nothing to do with foreigners. The laws to protect them and their island are not there for fun. FAFO.

    • @jorgebarriosmur
      @jorgebarriosmur 2 месяца назад +4

      I would say it is more a "MAKE SENTINEL GREAT AGAIN"- policy......

  • @imonghosh912
    @imonghosh912 2 месяца назад +349

    Indian here, Andaman Islands chain has enough naval presence, in other islands. There's a large scale tourism as well, especially near Port Blair and Neil & Ross Islands, with fantastic resorts and 5 star hotels. You can look it up. Radhanagar beach in Andamans is ranked regularly in the best beaches of the world, by Lonely planet & Time Magazine etc. But we the people and government have decided to leave this one island alone , because we know that the Sentinalese do not have any immunity of modern diseases. And any modern human presence there would lead to immediate annihilation of their people caused by Flu , or Small Pox etc.

    • @koriw1701
      @koriw1701 2 месяца назад

      ⁠You are undoubtedly correct about the viral threat to the Sentinelese, though not through smallpox. According to the World Health Organization, that disease has been eradicated in the world; the only known human disease to have done so. Smallpox now only exists on laboratory shelves.
      People older than 50 years are the last generation to have been vaccinated against that disease, so if there ever is a *real* "Wuhan," only some older parents and grandparents will have an immunity to it.
      I remember the huge push to vaccinate us, all the children in the country and I was one of them. We were vaccinated in school. We all lined up in the gym and got the vaccine via a 4-pronged stamp that we all got in our upper arms. Those vaccines have caused a starburst pattern scars on those of us to have very large scars that last for the rest of one's life. Some have more serious scars than others; it's always in the deltoid muscle of one of the upper arms.

    • @themongoose4675
      @themongoose4675 2 месяца назад

      History has already proven otherwise, though.

    • @crabapple1974
      @crabapple1974 2 месяца назад +18

      I think that is the best way. Try to minimise contact with them as much as possible. Both for the high risk of infections but also because it will destroy their culture. As scientists in a situation like this we cannot measure or even observe without altering and changing what we want to study.

    • @Maliceah
      @Maliceah 2 месяца назад +7

      And I'm sure they don't call themselves Sentinalese.

    • @arpan9937
      @arpan9937 2 месяца назад +4

      @@Maliceah obv.

  • @Nurichiri
    @Nurichiri 2 месяца назад +1306

    If you lived on your own little island and your family and neighbors got sick and possibly died any time people came, yeah I don't think you'd trust outsiders either.

    • @djdrack4681
      @djdrack4681 2 месяца назад +1

      IF all the existence you can remember you've been like "Outsiders? FCK tho ppl! All they do is send garbage onto our beaches, ruining them"
      ...and that'd be understandable

    • @Nurichiri
      @Nurichiri 2 месяца назад +5

      @@djdrack4681 Garage? I assume you mean garbage.

    • @AffectionatePitbull-dw9cd
      @AffectionatePitbull-dw9cd 2 месяца назад +18

      ​@@djdrack4681nah, 100% sending garages to the island, its for their fancy sports cars

    • @djdrack4681
      @djdrack4681 2 месяца назад +3

      @@Nurichiritypo lol. sounds funnier tho.

    • @MrAdamArce
      @MrAdamArce 2 месяца назад

      That was my thought. The first time, "Maybe these guys were dicks and others will be nice?" A couple visits later, "Nope! Fuck all of those outsiders! They visit, and suddenly, we have sickness and death that's never happened to us. No more of this shit!"

  • @aceclubbs6771
    @aceclubbs6771 2 месяца назад +653

    I have aggressively swallowed up every scrap of information available on the Sentalese and I find them fascinating. They are as close to a snap shot of a thousand plus years ago as we have. Also I give all accolades to the Indian government for their ",hands off policy" in a world where we all too often destroy such things even through good intentions.

    • @IKilledEarl
      @IKilledEarl 2 месяца назад +74

      Don't you mean 10,000 years ago? A thousand years ago was the Middle Ages where the Holy Roman Empire was the most powerful state, paper money was invented, cathedrals and castles were lived in, and the Islamic caliphates were experiencing their Golden Age.

    • @iitylernallen
      @iitylernallen 2 месяца назад

      Theyre a bunch of tribal cannibals. What's interesting?

    • @RauchenWir
      @RauchenWir 2 месяца назад +41

      That's one way to see it.
      Another is that these are people who have been surviving as long as we all have, evolving as long as we all have, and yet they've made due with the technology they wield.
      They're not just a snapshot of neolithic life, they're also just as culturally developed and involved as any other human. What we miss out on in insight by closely studying them we gain by their purity. They're an example of indigenous life that was never colonized. Where else?
      It's interesting to think, though, that if one surveyor managed to find phosphate rock or some other mineral asset, things would have gone much differently for these people. They've done right by fragging every dude that comes ashore.

    • @pointmanzero
      @pointmanzero 2 месяца назад +7

      Australian aboriginals are more primitive and it's a closely guarded secret by the Australian govt.

    • @reid5885
      @reid5885 2 месяца назад +7

      If im correct these are the people that dismantled a ship that had landed and the next time they were observed they had metal tipped weapons and make shift metal gear. Im not sure if that was an uncontacted in the amazon im thinking of but honestly one of the best ways we could help these people is dropping a few supply drops of different types of metals so they can retain the same lifestyle but have more lethality for personal/protective purposes. One could also argue the best way to help would be to not think about how to help but to just appreciate and respect the existence of them in their current state.

  • @themigwel6185
    @themigwel6185 2 месяца назад +638

    Missionaries, man. Can’t stop bothering people.

    • @dfuher968
      @dfuher968 2 месяца назад +108

      Yeah, religious freedom - as long as its their religion and their freedom to try to force it on the rest of us.

    • @willowthistle3648
      @willowthistle3648 2 месяца назад +73

      I have a friend that has gone on a few missionary trips, I'm pagan BTW. I asked her what they did when they went. She said they sang them songs. I was confused. They spent all that money for flights, hotels and food to sing to orphans in orphanages. Wouldn't it have been better to send them the money they spent on the trip? They could've used that for things they needed. But I guess they wouldn't have that nice trip.

    • @rainbowwwkim
      @rainbowwwkim 2 месяца назад +26

      ​@@willowthistle3648 you're totally right but they live in a delusion

    • @PlutoIsntReal_
      @PlutoIsntReal_ 2 месяца назад +23

      The money used on all the trips to go there and "help" locals is literally better used to give resources so the locals and become more self sufficient

    • @makavelismith
      @makavelismith 2 месяца назад +50

      ​​@@willowthistle3648Their objective isn't to help people, it's to save souls.
      They think their god will be pleased with them for bringing more people to him. The god who apparently created everyone, needs their help to put him in contact with others... It's incredibly stupid stuff when you give it even 2 seconds thought.

  • @muppetb.lansing8374
    @muppetb.lansing8374 2 месяца назад +516

    You can guarantee that the "leave them alone" policy wouldnt apply if (a) this island was a good naval base, or (b) oil/minerals were discovered there

    • @Anrnion.
      @Anrnion. 2 месяца назад +23

      There are naval bases on surrounding islands..

    • @Truckkundesu
      @Truckkundesu 2 месяца назад +27

      It is actually a good location for a naval base, but the Indian government is not taking it over until there is a threat in that area..
      They would have already taken over it if the island was near the other side at lakshdweep as there is a foe Pakistan

    • @DroneStrike1776
      @DroneStrike1776 2 месяца назад +16

      Does it have oil? I can hear the songs of my people loading up on warships if it does.

    • @imonghosh912
      @imonghosh912 2 месяца назад +29

      Indian here, Andaman Islands chain has enough naval presence, in other islands. There's a large scale tourism as well, especially near Port Blair and Neil & Ross Islands. You can look it up. Radhanagar beach in Andamans is ranked regularly in the best beaches of the world, by Lonely planet & Time Magazine etc. But we the people and government have decided to leave this one island alone , because we know that the Sentinalese do not have any immunity of modern diseases. And any modern human presence there would lead to immediate annihilation of their people caused by Flu , or Small Pox etc.

    • @Truckkundesu
      @Truckkundesu 2 месяца назад +2

      @@imonghosh912 You know that NS island is very near Duncan straight, 90% of exports from ASEAN to EMEA crosses thorough there.... you can never have enough Naval presence for such important trade route.
      It can be a very important strategic stronghold if there is a conflict in future

  • @jibjones1233
    @jibjones1233 2 месяца назад +667

    Tragic? Please he knowingly went was shot with an arrow survived and then went back. Just another Darwin award winner

    • @pardn
      @pardn 2 месяца назад +84

      Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I have no condolences for him.

    • @Shipfixer
      @Shipfixer 2 месяца назад +83

      A religious fanatic who just knew they wanted to learn all they could about Jezus and maybe hold hands while singing Kumbaya.

    • @agiraffe3673
      @agiraffe3673 2 месяца назад +27

      Exactly, he knew he wasn’t welcome.

    • @azraelsparadox1119
      @azraelsparadox1119 2 месяца назад

      And who else would be more deserving than a damned missionary, right? Set out to ruin their culture with religious horse shit, ended up getting what he deserved. No sympathy.

    • @tommctear4672
      @tommctear4672 2 месяца назад +35

      if you haven't seen it, there's a documentary on the missionary guy by National Geographic (so I think its on Disney +) that was really good. really shows how both obsessed and insanely naïve he was.

  • @hannahp1108
    @hannahp1108 2 месяца назад +181

    There's a really good documentary about the missionary who tried to visit the island and his death. His father doesn't blame the North Sentinelese in the slightest. There's a much better argument for leaving them alone than there is for continuing to try to bother them when they clearly don't want anyone else around

    • @bigjared8946
      @bigjared8946 2 месяца назад +3

      Well yeah, his father is the one to blame here.

    • @griffinmckenzie7203
      @griffinmckenzie7203 2 месяца назад +9

      @@bigjared8946 And why is that, bud?

    • @bigjared8946
      @bigjared8946 2 месяца назад +15

      @@griffinmckenzie7203 How does someone so young end up so brainwashed and deluded without the parents directly making that happen? They sent him to some certifiably nutter private schools K-12 and I doubt his home life was any better.

    • @jontaedouglas7244
      @jontaedouglas7244 2 месяца назад +11

      @@bigjared8946I was just watching a video where some Jewish mom tried to argue with the host of cosmos because her son came back from Hebrew school and said that god didn’t create the universe, that the Big Bang did; and I find it fascinating how your family can really set how your brain works for the rest of your life. Religion being a huge example.

    • @poutinedream5066
      @poutinedream5066 2 месяца назад

      ​@bigjared8946 His dad actually blamed the Christian communities he was a part of for brainwashing and radicalizing his son.

  • @markspencer3612
    @markspencer3612 2 месяца назад +314

    I believe that the Sentinelese desire for isolation trumps our curiosity . I think they should be left alone .

    • @kirtose
      @kirtose 2 месяца назад +16

      its not curiosity its arrogance that people think they want to live like modern people and aren't happy being like they are.

    • @dfuher968
      @dfuher968 2 месяца назад +16

      @@kirtose And in this case, religious zealotry and the belief, that their "God" gives them the right to ignore all Earthly laws and the wishes and rights of any1 else.

    • @matthewfarrell1763
      @matthewfarrell1763 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@kirtose If you look at past interactions between developed societies and those that aren't, the mobility is (To within a statistically insignificant margin.) entirely one way. Which is a long winded way of saying, everyone who has a choice and knows the options does in fact seem to prefer living with modern medicine and electricity over wondering where their next meal is coming from, and watching their parents die young, their wives die in childbirth, and most their children die before adulthood.

    • @prtdiva
      @prtdiva Месяц назад

      @@matthewfarrell1763 how arrogant of you. Those people are perfectly fine without our “modern medicine.” They are not stupid like you’re insinuating them to be because they don’t know these things “exist.” They might not be aware to what extent how the modern world differs from their traditional world, but I’m sure they’ve realized from the few interactions that they’ve had with us they realize we have certain things that might be beneficial based on the gifts they’ve received. Yet, they have decided the harm of integrating into our culture is far more harmful than simply hunting for their food. And I agree with them. Sure, we might have modern medicine, but we also have war/abuse/racism/classism/sexism/r@pe/global warming/homelessness/@ids etc. The list goes on.
      Our modern world isn’t as great as you think it is. They are happy with the food that they have and their natural medicines. They do not want to be like us. It’s pretty simple to comprehend 🙄

  • @eoinokeeffe7014
    @eoinokeeffe7014 20 дней назад +11

    I disagree with this take on Chou. It was an act of astounding arrogance and condescension for him to go where he clearly wasn't wanted in order to spread his personal superstitions.

    • @kicunya12
      @kicunya12 3 дня назад

      Seriously, person illegally crossing a border is risking being shot by the guards. The rule applies for any border on the planet for at least several millennia. The fact that we sometimes do exceptions out of humanitarian reasons, doesn't mean that anybody else is obligated or will do a particular exceptions.

  • @billcook4768
    @billcook4768 Месяц назад +7

    What’s remarkable is that there are fewer inhabitants on the island than the number of channels Simon has.

  • @MidnightBitesCarly
    @MidnightBitesCarly 2 месяца назад +49

    Damn this is the first time I’ve heard about the female doctor’s contact with the Sentinalese. Thank you for presenting extremely well researched videos!

    • @Oceansta
      @Oceansta 4 дня назад

      you'll see her in the original 20 min docu - Man in search of Man

  • @DouglasZanini
    @DouglasZanini 2 месяца назад +38

    There are many hunter-gatherer isolated tribes in the Amazonian rainforest that have never made contact with the outside world, these are groups of a few hundred people, some may not even reach 100. Many of these isolated groups could have been wiped out by illegal miners and loggers over the decades, and we would never know.

  • @katherineludwig5694
    @katherineludwig5694 Месяц назад +7

    The Sentinelese have made it abundantly clear they don’t want anything to do with outsiders. I’m curious too, but we need to leave them alone.

  • @jp5fens
    @jp5fens 2 месяца назад +64

    Though it would be interesting to study their way of life, I believe that it's best we leave them alone.

    • @Chris-hx3om
      @Chris-hx3om 2 месяца назад +6

      Interesting for who? Certainly not them..

    • @andrevanderlinden8722
      @andrevanderlinden8722 29 дней назад +2

      ​@@Chris-hx3om for almost everyone else? He never said that we should do it, on the contrary, we should leave them alone. Doesnt make them less interesting

  • @Elthenar
    @Elthenar 2 месяца назад +198

    The James Webb telescope wasn't built to map the stars. It was built to get all of Simon's channels in one picture

  • @jeffwilliams8424
    @jeffwilliams8424 2 месяца назад +33

    This is the most serious game of fuck around and find out. Leave people alone

  • @witcherwildhunt4320
    @witcherwildhunt4320 20 дней назад +8

    Kudos to Indian Government for not taking their land, unlike European countries who would have made an 5 star resort there till now!

  • @equarg
    @equarg 2 месяца назад +25

    Yea, a place on my “do not visit list”.
    Locals do NOT want to be bothered.
    At almost 40, I am beginning to see why they want nothing to do with the rest of the world.

    • @danielkarmy4893
      @danielkarmy4893 2 часа назад

      You're doing better than me then - I've arrived at that stage at 29!

  • @TheForeignGamer
    @TheForeignGamer 2 месяца назад +134

    I like to imagine Simon starts his workweek by sitting at his desk before opening any messages from his writers and asking himself, "Alright, which random topic am I going to sound vaguely educated on this time?"

    • @marktg98
      @marktg98 2 месяца назад +13

      He's only doing what presenters have been doing ever since tv has been invented, nothing wrong with that.

    • @TheForeignGamer
      @TheForeignGamer 2 месяца назад +27

      @@marktg98 Make no mistake, I'm not criticizing him, I was just making a silly joke based on what probably isn't too far from the truth, lol. It's a career path many people could only dream of, and I'm happy that his particular life circumstances allowed him to pursue it.

    • @danielreuben1058
      @danielreuben1058 2 месяца назад +18

      Simon even states that most of what he reads goes through his head and out into the void. I like it when he's doing a video and has talked about it before and has no recollection of it.

    • @fett713akamandodragon5
      @fett713akamandodragon5 2 месяца назад +10

      @@danielreuben1058 Me too, he's very honest and humble about it, which is in itself a breath of fresh air. He's a very genuine and wonderful guy.

    • @SeraphRyan
      @SeraphRyan 2 месяца назад +3

      @@danielreuben1058 too bad he cant do that with most of the casual criminalist stuff he reads. Its like he forgets everything else, but those stories stick like glue.

  • @xionmemoria
    @xionmemoria 2 месяца назад +35

    ANOTHER channel, factboi? If I have to hand this man another sub I'll be legally declared a sandwich shop.

    • @briannam3140
      @briannam3140 2 месяца назад +1

      it’s cause he left the geographics channel since he didn’t technically own it and just hosted it so this is Simon’s owned equivalent and although he didn’t technically own it, in my opinion geographics is definitely going to die success wise without him

    • @aste4949
      @aste4949 2 месяца назад +1

      This is a brilliant comment 🤣

    • @pleasureincontempt3645
      @pleasureincontempt3645 Месяц назад +1

      This channel seems better. Eventhough Simon is just a narrator; The adverts that became feature on the other channels went off the rails. I can understand trying to pay the bills. But those channels were rife with greed. I’ll sub until my time becomes needlessly wasted. Everybody deserves a second chance. Future will tell.

  • @dam6075
    @dam6075 Месяц назад +4

    I'd say leave these people alone. There is absolutely no reason why we need to force on them our way of life, laws, religions, or any other aspect of our lives. They have existed and thrived without us for thousands of years so while I obviously cannot speak for them I'd guess they'll do just fine as they have always lived.

  • @LanceMan
    @LanceMan 2 месяца назад +222

    How about for once we just leave them alone? They aren't bothering anyone.

    • @1whitkat
      @1whitkat 2 месяца назад +10

      How enlightened and intelligent would that be?

    • @killahp123
      @killahp123 2 месяца назад +20

      ​@@1whitkatactually, very much so. Which makes it unlikely to happen

    • @1whitkat
      @1whitkat 2 месяца назад +3

      @@killahp123 Precisely.

    • @rydz656
      @rydz656 2 месяца назад

      Even though they're clearly inbreeding like crazy. But they have black skin so who cares?

    • @kevinb9830
      @kevinb9830 2 месяца назад +2

      @@1whitkat Not very. We learn more by studying them.

  • @eaphantom9214
    @eaphantom9214 2 месяца назад +38

    Happy to see this again, you last presented this story before on Geographics 3 years ago Simon

    • @lukedowdall5172
      @lukedowdall5172 2 месяца назад +5

      Geographics ain't one of the channel's he owns.....just presented.......welcome the flood of new yet old content....

    • @eaphantom9214
      @eaphantom9214 2 месяца назад +9

      ​@@lukedowdall5172
      For those of us following Simon on his channels for a long time
      We are well aware of that. Rather obvious 😅

    • @ludabalkanska2890
      @ludabalkanska2890 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@@eaphantom9214 Also, also, I would like to add, that we are very much happy to watch/listen old content again. Thank you very much 🎉

    • @tondekoddar7837
      @tondekoddar7837 2 месяца назад +1

      Yeah, I think AI is generating the same videos again and again now. I don't think it makes new channels in YT as proficiently as Simon yet :p

  • @bobrosstv1556
    @bobrosstv1556 Месяц назад +4

    Love the British brain here. “There’s this undeveloped land full of people who don’t want us there. Should we invade them?”

  • @7r3v0rc
    @7r3v0rc 2 месяца назад +15

    This story has fascinated me since I first heard about it!

  • @rebeccaritchie3315
    @rebeccaritchie3315 2 месяца назад +66

    Prime Directive, Simon. That’s my vote.

    • @Aeonshield
      @Aeonshield 2 месяца назад +7

      Don't tell Janeway

    • @lauren9667
      @lauren9667 2 месяца назад +3

      Absolutely!

    • @SeliahK
      @SeliahK 2 месяца назад +5

      ​@@AeonshieldOr Kirk. LOL
      But for the record, I agree. Leave them alone. They don't need or want us. We need to respect that.

  • @lunchboxcrochet
    @lunchboxcrochet 2 месяца назад +13

    LEAVE THESE PEOPLE ALONE. Jesus christ.. let them live in peace. If I could choose to live on a remote island without society, I'd be on a makeshift canoe in seconds. Let's not corrupt the last people on earth who know what true happiness is.

    • @lukeulibarri3924
      @lukeulibarri3924 18 дней назад

      True happiness?! How did you evaluate their happiness? Is true happiness living a superstitious and ignorant life, dying from preventable diseases where you angrily try to kill anyone who approaches you unprovoked? I agree that we should leave them alone but do not romanticize their primitive culture as if it is the peak of human achievement.

    • @BoOb-yd4dk
      @BoOb-yd4dk 13 дней назад

      @@lukeulibarri3924sounds like Alabama.

  • @kevbob
    @kevbob 2 месяца назад +75

    Simon’s beard looks like it’s ready for its own RUclips channel.

    • @bengreenwald3425
      @bengreenwald3425 2 месяца назад +6

      I would subscribe

    • @piperjaycie
      @piperjaycie 2 месяца назад +5

      Beardprojects

    • @tondekoddar7837
      @tondekoddar7837 2 месяца назад +3

      History's important bear'ers ? Beardwearers ftw ? Ignore the ftw part

    • @Nameless_Night
      @Nameless_Night 2 месяца назад +2

      This made me laugh more than it should have 😂

  • @TJ-el5tm
    @TJ-el5tm 2 месяца назад +56

    Johnathan Allen Chou: FAFO champion of 2017

  • @zarasbazaar
    @zarasbazaar 2 месяца назад +77

    The Sentinelese have told us, repeatedly, to leave them alone. The modern world could force it's way in and subjugate the islanders, but it hasn't. That's the best way to eventually earn their trust, but not forcing contact. Since their society is obviously constantly evolving, perhaps they will get to a point where they want to learn about the rest of the world.

    • @nicholascauton9648
      @nicholascauton9648 2 месяца назад

      They’ve had hundreds of years to try to explore the constantly changing world and they’ve made it more than clear they have no interest in such changes. Just pretend they literally do not exist.

    • @mrtoothless
      @mrtoothless 2 месяца назад +1

      Their society is not 'constantly evolving' at all. They've been there 50 000 years. They're hard-stuck stone age, like all blacks.

    • @poip202
      @poip202 2 месяца назад +8

      Not sure they have evolved much if they don't know how to make paddles or create fire tbh lol

    • @mongenjeff
      @mongenjeff 2 месяца назад +14

      @@poip202 youre just using our known baseline as the standard for evolution. they have evolved at a pace that suits their environment

    • @lornarettig3215
      @lornarettig3215 2 месяца назад +9

      Exactly - they are well aware that there are other humans out there, living a different way to them. If and when they want to make contact, the door will be open.

  • @VHcabowabo
    @VHcabowabo 2 месяца назад +5

    The Sentinelese are basically me when anyone rings my doorbell. If you’re on my porch and you don’t have a pizza you can buzz right off

  • @Gostwriterindisguise
    @Gostwriterindisguise Месяц назад +5

    May they never run out of arrows.

  • @gachatookthekids
    @gachatookthekids Месяц назад +3

    Imagine if the developed world destroys itself in some nuclear war and these people had no idea about it. Crazy to think about

  • @kandreasworld4374
    @kandreasworld4374 2 месяца назад +27

    They are happy and in no danger other than from outsiders, so leave them alone. I don't know who got the idea in their head that we as a society have the right to conquer, control and understand everything on this planet. We don't, especially if by doing so causes much more harm than good.

  • @nomad4k
    @nomad4k Месяц назад +2

    One of the most profound things Anthropologists always say is to leave them alone if they want to left alone ! The Sentinelese actually accepted contact sometime in the 90s but I think that contact led to some people falling sick or dying. And they suddenly turned hostile again in the early 90s, after about 12 contacts. Since we don’t speak their language we don’t know what exactly may have happened. But then, they have been perfectly happy and have lived on those islands for 60000 years. They don’t need us.

  • @alanhope1190
    @alanhope1190 Месяц назад +2

    This situation is a perfect example of the need for a Prime Directive to forbid cultural contamination and a general quarantine to protect the uncontacted from outside disease.

  • @misslawless6021
    @misslawless6021 2 месяца назад +6

    I love this new channel!

  • @bankrolDignan
    @bankrolDignan 2 месяца назад +5

    Leave them alone guys they’ve been pretty clear on that one. we’ve got to get it right once in history

  • @Teddy31976
    @Teddy31976 Месяц назад +4

    This was a very informative video. Thank you.

  • @surfstarcc1
    @surfstarcc1 2 месяца назад +2

    This was a very informative video, well done.

  • @adrastoso9727
    @adrastoso9727 2 месяца назад +10

    Indent this story, very fascinating that this civilization has been able to stave off modern society and people from interacting with them by making sure anyone who sets foot on the island doesn’t live to tell the tale.
    Of course there are other isolated tribes in the Amazon that have also resisted and killed anyone who intrudes into their territory, but they are not as well known because of how difficult it is to get to them.

    • @lukeulibarri3924
      @lukeulibarri3924 18 дней назад +2

      This is not a civilization. This is a primitive society. Civilizations have characteristics like agriculture, monetary systems, writing systems and educational institutions. All civilizations are societies but not all societies are civilizations.

  • @vin8889
    @vin8889 2 месяца назад +6

    It took 300 years, repeated wars, acts of aggression and violence and poor to no contact. It took only 1 woman with familiarity of local languages and gifts of food to make contact with the Sentinelese😂

  • @sgtgrash
    @sgtgrash 2 месяца назад +4

    Their land, their way of life, who are we to determine otherwise?

  • @sarahfinnigan7002
    @sarahfinnigan7002 2 месяца назад +4

    Chau’s intent to do mission work with the sentinelese is super well documented, included by his own journal. He even pursued his adventure stuff to further prepare him for this mission, though it sounds like he had an interest in outdoorsy stuff as a kid.

    • @Chris-hx3om
      @Chris-hx3om 2 месяца назад +14

      The religiously indoctrinated attempting to indoctrinate other makes my blood boil. The the hell give YOU the right to FORCE your beliefs in a fake god (or gods) on other people?

    • @a_kuma
      @a_kuma 2 месяца назад +2

      @@Chris-hx3om Precisely. It would be incredibly ironic if these missionaries spread diseases/bacteria to the tribes which they have zero immunity against, and completely wipe them out. They would be truly doing their God's work.

    • @Chris-hx3om
      @Chris-hx3om 2 месяца назад +2

      @@a_kuma I would posit that it would be less ironic and more inevitable...

  • @CoachTeufel13
    @CoachTeufel13 2 месяца назад +24

    Chau's visit was not altruistic. He was attempting to proselytize. He was the actual savage in that situation!

    • @Chris-hx3om
      @Chris-hx3om 2 месяца назад +8

      The religiously indoctrinated attempting to indoctrinate other makes my blood boil. The the hell give them the right to FORCE their beliefs in a fake god (or gods) on other people?

    • @briannam3140
      @briannam3140 2 месяца назад +5

      @@Chris-hx3omSame, and i’m always like what makes you think that You’re right that You got the special knowledge and out of every possibility in the universe you happen to find the real truth like nah that’s statistically unlikely and it’s so frustrating bc every person who tries to push their religion on others thinks that it’s justified since according to them it’s the truth, but they don’t always get that every other religious person of opposing religions also think that about themselves! and ppl who push religion but say that other religions shouldn’t force it on others is the most hypocritical frustrating thing. ik not everyone in every religion is like that though at all and there’s plenty of perfectly wonderful religious people out there

    • @Medic545
      @Medic545 Месяц назад +1

      “I am the Way the Truth and the Life.
      No man comes to the Father except through me.”
      -Jesus of Nazareth

    • @pharo9897
      @pharo9897 2 дня назад

      @@Medic545clearly delusional

  • @acmotorsport22
    @acmotorsport22 2 месяца назад +17

    Dear Simon, it’s always such a pleasure to hear your eloquent tones, precision delivery and quirky insights with your well researched and educated content. Ahhh so good 😊

  • @skidschaperisthebest
    @skidschaperisthebest 2 месяца назад

    Just started this and I’m so pumped! There’s a great doc on the 2018 situation called “The Mission”

  • @neil5242
    @neil5242 2 месяца назад +2

    Very interesting. Well researched.

  • @triggerfairy4070
    @triggerfairy4070 2 месяца назад +3

    Best way to study them is to leave them alone. Like the StarTreks Prime Directive

  • @888johnmac
    @888johnmac 2 месяца назад +21

    in answer to Simon's summing up .. i say hands off & leave them in peace

  • @jonathanbrewer7072
    @jonathanbrewer7072 Месяц назад +1

    Another brilliant Biographics. Thank you.

  • @peterbutle
    @peterbutle 2 месяца назад +2

    Excellent analysis thank you

  • @boudicaastorm4540
    @boudicaastorm4540 2 месяца назад +7

    These are people, not research subjects, and it would be wrong to disturb their privacy. If they ever purposefully and deliberately reach out to us, then we can talk. But otherwise, just no. Countless indigenous people across the world and time have had their lives ruined because of outside interference, I don't want that for these people.

  • @paraplegicbradleyschubert1328
    @paraplegicbradleyschubert1328 2 месяца назад +7

    Hey mate, how many RUclips channels do you have. You are one very busy man and I like all your different topics you talk about. Cheers

    • @briannam3140
      @briannam3140 2 месяца назад +2

      probably ♾️ at this point😂

  • @LalinDissanayaka
    @LalinDissanayaka 2 месяца назад +1

    You actually got new information I didn't know and I read the whole Wikipedia page several times because I'm so fascinated by this topic

  • @TwilightxKnight13
    @TwilightxKnight13 2 месяца назад +2

    Moral of the story - leave them alone! They don't want our help.

  • @palmareal13
    @palmareal13 2 месяца назад +3

    Absolutely hands-off approach in my opinion. Let them be, they obviously don't need us and don't want us on their island. And don't even get me started on the idea of bringing our beliefs and religions to them....

  • @moniquedespins3574
    @moniquedespins3574 2 месяца назад +5

    Hands off...people can be too curious for their own good. They clearly don't want to be bothered.

  • @dannyprestwood9085
    @dannyprestwood9085 2 месяца назад +4

    Hands off, if it isn't broke don't fix it. They aren't asking for help. They have their best life style. They don't need our problems introduced to them.

  • @zeedavis5176
    @zeedavis5176 2 месяца назад +3

    Honestly the only reason I see to establish a decent relation with them instead of leaving them alone is the fact that people keep accidentally ending up there. It’s within everyone’s best interest if we can communicate enough to say “we’re not here to hurt you, we’re just stuck until someone comes and gets us”. Other than that we really ought to let them be.

    • @gund89123
      @gund89123 Месяц назад

      British said they were in India just for trade, look how that turned out ?

  • @SamCoyle-cc6kv
    @SamCoyle-cc6kv 2 месяца назад +30

    They need to leave those people alone. Not everything in this world is meant to be touched by us

  • @scottympeace
    @scottympeace 2 месяца назад +3

    My doctor friend here met him.. and was really upset to learn that he went. He was told many times not to go

  • @craigcrawford6749
    @craigcrawford6749 2 месяца назад +1

    Great channel and much better narration style.

  • @malcolmdean6899
    @malcolmdean6899 Месяц назад +2

    Wow Simon has a Ton of channels now.

  • @neilskillin7975
    @neilskillin7975 2 месяца назад +115

    I really dislike having his death referred to as murder! The Sentinel island natives have every right to protect their home.

    • @Nerathul1
      @Nerathul1 2 месяца назад

      And let's be honest this man's intentions were basically cultural genocide. He wanted to convert and 'civilize' them

    • @angelitabecerra
      @angelitabecerra 2 месяца назад +24

      Right?
      And they may not have any concept of murder, or at least murder as we understand it.
      No one watching this video would think twice about shooting and killing someone invading their home. And that's not murder, it's self defense. So why would this be any different?

    • @pauld.b7129
      @pauld.b7129 2 месяца назад +31

      Plus, I have no idea how he planned to convert them to Christianity, considering not even experts know their language. He would have had to spend years there learning the language to even communicate the idea of Christianity. Dumb idea.

    • @hannahp1108
      @hannahp1108 2 месяца назад +13

      Same, it's self-defense. He likely would've infected them with any manner of deadly illnesses

    • @meetoo594
      @meetoo594 2 месяца назад

      Yup, this idiot turns up waving a book (that they have no concept of) whilst ranting in a language they dont know and walking towards them after being told to bugger off the first time.
      From their perspective this buffoon is a threat who wont back off. What an absolute clown, what did he think was going to happen?

  • @ERSwanger
    @ERSwanger 2 месяца назад +18

    Dude how many channels do you have? I keep finding more!

    • @HotEatTheFood
      @HotEatTheFood 2 месяца назад +2

      what else do you expect from a staunch capitalist? 🤣

    • @davidpetersen1
      @davidpetersen1 2 месяца назад +1

      Ikr.. I thought this one was a knock off at first.

  • @historybuff7491
    @historybuff7491 2 месяца назад +1

    Hands off! Although, I wish there were a way to communicate with them at a distance. Never landing, but still able to talk with them and learning from them. But first and formost, hands off!

  • @TheWeeJet
    @TheWeeJet Месяц назад +1

    Damit. How is there another Simon channel I never knew existed. Man is insane.

  • @rileyh4169
    @rileyh4169 2 месяца назад +7

    Good music on this one 👍🎶

  • @Rednecknerd_rob9634
    @Rednecknerd_rob9634 28 дней назад +3

    I personally think that the government of India has it right, and yes it does pain me to type that about any government, but when any government gets something right about anything then that government deserves credit.

  • @LalinDissanayaka
    @LalinDissanayaka 2 месяца назад

    Finally you do my favorite topic

  • @xsaxia2008
    @xsaxia2008 2 месяца назад +3

    They shot at a helicopter, a massive, loud, airborne monster they couldn't understand, with a bow? fuck isolation, turn them into warlords. they'd be terrifying.

    • @mariakelly90210
      @mariakelly90210 3 дня назад

      The way the Indian Navy discovered that the North Sentinelese Islanders had survived the 2004 tsunami was when the North Sentinelese Islanders started shooting arrows and throwing spears at the helicopter when they saw it approach the island.

  • @rosiepear7531
    @rosiepear7531 Месяц назад +3

    ""It is absolutely imperative that we ... establish a set of rules for the preservation and isolation of that island. These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way."
    John Hammond, The Lost World: Jurassic Park

  • @RedCharlie1000
    @RedCharlie1000 2 месяца назад +7

    I agree to leave them alone. If they wanted contact, they would have made contact.

  • @MattCatt817
    @MattCatt817 2 месяца назад +8

    What if we went to North Sentinel Island and realized that the tribe there actually had more advanced technology than the rest of the world?… That’d be funny.

    • @mariakelly90210
      @mariakelly90210 2 месяца назад +7

      Legend has it that North Sentinel Island, not Africa, is the real location of Wakanda.

    • @hamualpods0002
      @hamualpods0002 Месяц назад

      Probably they do, that's probably why they don't want anyone to set foot on their Island to have their technology exposed 😳..

    • @mariakelly90210
      @mariakelly90210 3 дня назад

      Fun Fact: The War Dogs are the name of the Wakandan Secret Service.

  • @michaelmayhem350
    @michaelmayhem350 2 месяца назад +9

    How did I not know Simonbot had a new channel? He usually pushes them on his primary business blaze channel

    • @briannam3140
      @briannam3140 2 месяца назад +1

      i think it’s a bit more complicated than usual bc he left geographics since he didn’t technically own the channel and i have a feeling there could be issues if he started pushing this one since it’s so similar and not as simple as i just started a new channel but i really have no idea just a guess, another idea is maybe he doesn’t want to bring up the, tension isn’t the right word but, situation with the now owner of geographics since, from a video i watched from them explaining the situation, it doesn’t put them in a good light and simon probably doesn’t want to have to explain the new channel and bring that to more public attention

  • @deadgamer21
    @deadgamer21 2 месяца назад +23

    Thank you for the hours of content you upload daily, really helps me pass the time in this BASEMENT........, FOR GOD SAKE SIMON LET ME OUT I HAVE A FAMILY THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE DOWN HERE PISSIN IN ONE PISS BUCKET YOU NEVER EMPTY THE BUCKET

    • @mikeygallos5000
      @mikeygallos5000 2 месяца назад +6

      Say hello to ETA for me please. I haven't heard from him in some time.

    • @barrydysert2974
      @barrydysert2974 2 месяца назад

      ​@@mikeygallos5000ETA sends greetings OGBB!
      OGBB We are Legion !:-) 🫥

    • @keryeeastin4022
      @keryeeastin4022 2 месяца назад +2

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @ItsHyomoto
    @ItsHyomoto 2 месяца назад +11

    What we think we can learn is surely not more valuable than just leaving them them alone. There's no scientific value, only curiousity. We aren't going to discover a new medicinal breakthrough or find a solution to our energy needs. Humans hate mysteries, but this one doesn't need solving.

    • @Chris-hx3om
      @Chris-hx3om 2 месяца назад

      Humans make up shit when there's a mystery, like 'god did it' when the truth is 'we don't know'. The uneducated just love to implement 'the god of the gaps'...

  • @cjhardy386
    @cjhardy386 2 месяца назад +1

    Bro, how many channels do you have? We're watching the hardest working man on RUclips.

  • @rons3634
    @rons3634 Месяц назад +2

    Your curiosity doesn't cancel out their right to be left alone.
    Leave. Them. Alone.

  • @theg0z0n
    @theg0z0n 2 месяца назад +7

    Another Simon channel??!?! Simon please do a Mega Projects about your empire on April 1st!

  • @popoha4380
    @popoha4380 2 месяца назад +28

    Given modern human's ability to fully break anything it touches, let us respect the hands off method and observe from a distance, as we well could do if we where truly so inspired.

  • @PriceyBuilt
    @PriceyBuilt 2 месяца назад +118

    I wish more indigenous tribes around the world were allowed to deal with missionaries the same way.

    • @sevel7556
      @sevel7556 2 месяца назад

      And I wish we were allowed to deal with people like you the same way

    • @kevinb9830
      @kevinb9830 2 месяца назад

      Sounds like you might be a bit of a sociopath.

    • @randomlyswatching9481
      @randomlyswatching9481 2 месяца назад +1

      @@argon62 or someone with logic and maturity to not bother someone forcibly. That's a concept.😂normal sensible people have. Haham.

    • @randomlyswatching9481
      @randomlyswatching9481 2 месяца назад +2

      Boundaries is a concept those people don't know

  • @cosmiccarole3285
    @cosmiccarole3285 2 месяца назад +3

    they should be just left alone. why do they need to be studied anyway.

  • @Ausjon61
    @Ausjon61 2 месяца назад +4

    3 words....Leave Them ALONE !!!

  • @Bystander333
    @Bystander333 2 месяца назад +3

    Another channel? I love this dude's stuff, but even YT recommended is struggling.

  • @Startrekker6231
    @Startrekker6231 2 месяца назад +2

    There was an episode of Stat Trek that had a un contacted tribe. They were protected by a shield to protect them.

  • @DaveMani
    @DaveMani 2 месяца назад +2

    So interesting!

  • @kevins8434
    @kevins8434 2 месяца назад +3

    SW is the best narrator on the planet... Whistler rulz

  • @angelitabecerra
    @angelitabecerra 2 месяца назад +5

    I say leave them alone. They clearly want to be left alone. And they're *far* better off without us.
    Would I love to learn about them and their history? Of course! But not at the risk of their health and culture.
    Every time an uncontested tribe gets contacted, a large percentage die due to disease and violence. And then, inevitably, their culture is irrevocably lost forever.
    Leave them be, they deserve the right to determine their own destiny, the same as the rest of us.

  • @user-rl3iv2jk9q
    @user-rl3iv2jk9q 2 дня назад

    16 May 2024 :
    Thank you for your presentation .

  • @vihaze6725
    @vihaze6725 2 месяца назад +2

    I'd be fascinated to learn more about them, but I think we should all respect their wishes and leave them alone.

  • @jaythomaso9311
    @jaythomaso9311 2 месяца назад +9

    Bro how many channels does Simon work for? It's like once a week i get a recommended video from a new channel I've never heard of, and somehow they always have like 50k+ views already in a like 4 hours...

    • @briannam3140
      @briannam3140 2 месяца назад

      Simon doesn’t work for Geographics anymore (turns out he didn’t own it even tho like everyone thought he did lol) so this is his equivalent which he owns now instead (don’t know about the ownership of his many other channels but i’d assume he owns at least some of them too)

  • @gashnal
    @gashnal 2 месяца назад +32

    I feel like the Prime Directive should apply here. these people do not want us there, us going there will cause them great harm even with the best intentions. There is no reason why we should push our cultures and values on them. There is not even an argument about resources or strategic value, the island as said is worthless. This is actually a proving ground for the future of space travel. all of these things will be important considering factors if we actually find intelegent life especially if that life is less socially and technologically developed.

    • @pauld.b7129
      @pauld.b7129 2 месяца назад +3

      Yes, although we should definitely get some cameras and recording devices onto the island. Sanitize them and sneak in at night to put them up. Studying them in that way would be unprecedented, since every other tribe has been studied by a human interacting with them. Being able to observe them and decode the language without interaction would be pretty revolutionary

    • @HotEatTheFood
      @HotEatTheFood 2 месяца назад

      @@pauld.b7129jesus christ, they’re people not animals in a blue planet documentary. Doubt you would like it if someone hid cameras in your house to watch you without your knowledge

    • @knuckles-3386
      @knuckles-3386 2 месяца назад +1

      @@pauld.b7129isn’t this why we have drones?

    • @sarahissersohn5495
      @sarahissersohn5495 2 месяца назад +1

      I think it’s a lot more likely we may encounter life that is more advanced than we are, in which case, we had better hope they are more developped in terms of empathy and ethics, in addition to tech. If not, we are gonna be so fucked

    • @valenciasaintilus9573
      @valenciasaintilus9573 Месяц назад

      @@pauld.b7129this has to be satire. You really don’t see them as people huh?

  • @jaxxh760
    @jaxxh760 18 дней назад +1

    Leave those people alone. Living their best lives out there in paradise, they don't need no one.

  • @jimaffinito1809
    @jimaffinito1809 2 месяца назад +2

    I got to sail right past north sentinel on a surf trip to the Andaman islands. I saw smoke from their fires rising.

  • @kamukameh
    @kamukameh 2 месяца назад +6

    We should let them be as they want as long as they don't harm people outside of their realm. The existence of this tribe is fascinating!