Incredible Video Of A Tribe Meeting White People For The First Time

TBI ^ | 6-24-2011 | Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

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Incredible Video Of A Tribe Meeting White People For The First Time

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
Jun. 24, 2011, 6:37 AM

This 15 minute video is from 1976 and shows a tribe in Papua New Guinea encountering white people for the first time.

The reactions going from fear to wonder to curiosity to joy are incredible to behold.

Watch:

(Click to the site to view the video)

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[FrdmLvr]

What made me skeptical about the authenticity was the fact that the first few minutes were filmed before they crossed the river. Weren’t they curious about the white people with the cameras?

[I see my hands]

Looks like the guy would have preferred a V-8.

[Gator113]

Wow! That was amazing to watch. Thanks for posting it.

As for validity, it was obvious. Not once during the entire contact did any of those Blacks call the crackers racists. And, I never once heard the chant, “give me mo Obama free money”.

I can only imagine how awesome such an experience would be.

[Gargantua]

I'm most struck by the realization that, 300 years or so ago, that's what O'Bunghole would have been doing instead of golfing and ruining this country.

Pretty strong argument for our forbears having left them to hide from leopards and pick their boogers in the jungle instead of bringing them over here to end up in larcenous flash mobs, legislating freebies for their "Gimme some!" relatives, and bitching about how bad they have it here.

To be fair, I must admit... those were some really nice sticks through their noses.

;^\

[Larry Lucido]

I’m not allowed an opinion?

[little jeremiah]

Placemark to watch.

[Boiling point]

Cute. I guess that’s how we will look if we are ever visited by advanced extra-terrestrials.

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[Marie]

I’m a female. There’s only one thing that aliens would have to do to win me over: Be kind to the children and the men.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’d wonder if this actually was a re-enactment of the meeting, requested of the tribe, once it was determined the tribe was, in fact, friendly. If it wasn’t friendly, an initial meeting with cameras probably would not be wise!

[KittyKares]

Was that sugar in the bowl? Next thing you know they’ll be bringing in white bread.

[BuddhaBrown]

“As for validity, it was obvious”

I agree. The boobs were obviously real.

[DH]

Did anyone pay attention to the chief eating with a fork? Notice the way he held it?

He must have read Emily Post!

Something is wrong here......

[reformedliberal]

We were there in 1976 and briefly were in the back country in the mountains. Everyone was excited and happy to see us, especially if we would shake their hands, because we brought cash to buy their objects and because for them, white is the color of death and we were thought to be reincarnations of their dead relatives.

The one exception was a village selling walking sticks and masks. Only the elder males were selling and there was no “#2” price. These guys were surly. One of the tourists, a Canadian woman, tried to bargain them down and they just refused. My husband had been watching one of the men and detected that he was simply aggravated by the woman. So, on the way out, my husband offered this guy a price above the Canadian’s, but still, a tad below the asking price. To everyone’s amazement, the seller agreed and sold us 2 wonderful masks and 2 terrific walking sticks. DH says to this day that it was a guy thing, they connected on a shared male level and the seller was just showing his contempt for the Canadian woman.

I wonder if, at some point, members of this tribe who are now deceased _had_ encountered white people, but that it had now become myth. These specific individuals may have never seen whites before with their own eyes. There were a lot of missions and also Australian doctors and other government workers, even in the back country, but I can believe there were remote villages even further away that just never got more than 10 miles from their homes.

[Michael.SF.]

Did not get that far, but would seem to confirm my suspicion.