Now you mentioned it, I think my friend also said his exchange pupil brought shitloads of toilet paper.
To be fair: when I travel, I usually have some in my pack as well. Just in case. Out of experience. And I also have assumptions about places I visit which turn out to be rubbish. But I try to do some research, usually. (Not a fan of travel guides, except when they sport “Don’t Panic” on their sleeves. However, a short glimpse at the intro chapter in a bookstore usually is a good think to have.)
You should try to get them to call their mothers. Generally when on mission, “elders” (18 year old children) aren’t allowed to speak to their own family outside of weekly letters except on maybe christmas.
My best friend is a Formon and this advice comes straight from him. Offer them something to drink, and gently try to convince them that it’s safe for them to call their mothers.
Remember, it’s a cult, and as long as they can’t victimize you (few elders can), they themselves are victims of cult-based isolation techniques designed to break down their independence and willpower.
Lol, its blaitainly obvious the tribes people mean business. They simply act in the way most of us do when being trespassed upon by others at/in our home. And I don’t blame them what so ever. They may be UN- modernized in all the ways the rest of this world is and that might be a good thing when you think about it. It don’t take much thought to come to the conclusion there’s alot wrong with how things are going with modernized society. All the daily stress one must endure just to survive in this modern world. And to know the “tourist” wrote he didn’t want to die, I’m lol now, that fool begged for it.
In this case, they really could use a wall to keep us out. However, it’s not exactly practical on an island, whose inhabitants (most likely) survive primarily on fishing.
Spears and arrows work very well, apparently. Every single interloper has been chased away, wounded and/or killed, and the Indian government seems committed to leaving these people alone.
This went far beyond stupid. They made it very clear they wanted nothing to do with him and he was trespassing, and he refused to respect that. That kind of attitude could easily get you shot where I come from, too, and rightfully so.
He was trying to erase them and their culture. The fact that he was too blinded by ideology to realize this doesn’t make it less true.
At the risk of pedantry, the Roanoke Colony wasn’t established by the Puritans, which I believe was @knoxblox’s point. But I also take you’re point, Plymouth Colony wasn’t the first English settlement. Of course the doom of the indigenous peoples of what came to be called the Americas was Europeans ever setting foot in the “New” World in the first place. Of course even if the Taino had driven Columbus’s expedition back into the sea or had the means to wipe Santo Domingo Colony off the map, greed would have brought more Conquistadors.
The damage religion does is widespread and highly documented… I’ll take doing nothing until more information is recieved over adding an element that has proven history of major harm…
The person here seemed to be suffering from two big problems: (1) His relative privilege kept him from having a sufficiently developed sense of danger. (This is something not uncommon for tourists from the US and Europe traveling in other cultures.) (2) His immersion in his church’s culture, through and beyond college, insulated him from being exposed to the reality that the whole idea of missionary work is is structurally deeply offensive.
Other than that, he does not seem to have been a particularly bad person, and I think it is not unreasonable to view him as a victim…but of his church and upbringing (and of his family’s own conversion at some point by that church), not of the island residents.
