The US has quit UNESCO, the UN agency that protects world heritage sites and teaches poor children to read

One complication with places like Uluru is that the Anangu people, by their own laws, are responsible for the safety and good behaviour of anyone visiting the site. Both in a “it’s your job to manage this” sense, and a “you will be punished by karma if you fail at that task” sense.

They are now “permitted” to put signs up requesting that tourists refrain from doing offensive things. They are not empowered to enforce these requests in any way.

By Anangu law, every time some middle-aged tourist bloke has a heart attack climbing Uluru (which is a thing that the Anangu would never do, much as a Catholic would not use the Vatican as a bouldering wall), it is as if the Anangu had killed him themselves.

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