I don't know why the belief in the "noble savage" persists to this day, but your response is exactly what I would hope for from a rational human being. Certain

I don't know why the belief in the "noble savage" persists to this day, but your response is exactly what I would hope for from a rational human being. Certainly there probably is an optimal way to go about contacting a tribe like this and "bringing them up to speed" with the rest of the world, and I admit that there probably isn't a single person on this earth who actually knows what that optimal way is. But to deny these people even the chance at a better life because we're busy hand-wringing over how it will affect their culture is terrible.