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> While privileged people are eating £15 burgers and splashing £100 on new trainers, the near-naked Sentinelese are surviving off the land and hunting for sea c
by sjclemmy 10y ago
> While privileged people are eating £15 burgers and splashing £100 on new trainers, the near-naked Sentinelese are surviving off the land and hunting for sea creatures.
Ah, The daily mail.
Let's open a McDonald's and ship in some Adidas. That'll make them happy.
I'm surprised they didn't use the word savages.
- keiferski 10y agoI read that sentence as mocking Westerners' consumerism, not glorifying their burger-and-trainer spending habits.
- GordonS 10y agoNot familiar with the "The Daily Hate" them? I rather think they did mean it as the OP said.
- yummyfajitas 10y agoIf there is an advanced civilization with better shoes than Aasics and better food than Shiv Sagar restaurant, I'd love it if they made contact and let me buy some of their stuff. Doubly so if they also have cures for heart disease, cancer, old age and other things that are likely to kill me. How would you justify depriving the sentinelese of these wonders, as the Indian government is currently doing?
- sjclemmy 10y agoYou'd have to buy their stuff using their currency, which you could only get by engaging in unfamiliar activities they called 'work', which you probabably wouldn't understand and wouldn't be very good at. In fact the only work you would be able to get would be making said 'aasics', the pay for which wouldn't be enough for you to buy a pair. How ironic! Etc. Etc...
- yummyfajitas 10y agoYeah, the idea of living in an advanced civilization and learning new things sounds horrible! I hope I never need to leave the place I was born or be exposed to new cultures. That would be so awful! (Oh wait, I'm writing this from a city about 10,000 miles from where I was born. I haven't spoken to anyone from my own country in over a month. Should I also be suffering in some way?)
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