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4:12pm September 22, 2013

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THE ANDAMAN ISLANDERS

Off of the coast of India, a heavily Melanated indigenous people live. Thought to be the darkes hued people on the planet, archeologist speculate that they or people look like them, represent the oldest lineage of people on the Asian Continent.

The Andamanese tribe may today be seen as facing extinction and still consigned to the hinterlands of India where they suffer massive humiliation as a group of black Africans, but they are one of the original Africans (blacks) who inhabited Asia and the country India before the arrival of the Mangolians or so-called Asians. Out of India`s over 1 billion population, Andamanese population is now below 350. This special group of ancient African Indians and bona fide owners of India as a country will gradually fade out of the world if proper international humanitarian attention is not given to them.

Recently the Indian government was using them as “human zoo” to attract tourism to India. Now tourism companies are operating daily “safaris” through natives’ jungle and wealthy tourists are allegedly paying police to make the women — typically naked — dance for their amusement. “It’s deplorable. You cannot treat human beings like beasts for the sake of money.” That is the statement made by India’s Tribal Affairs Minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo on Wednesday after an investigation was launched into a depraved tourist-attraction promoting “human zoos.”
“Whatever kind of tourism is that, I totally disapprove of that and it is being banned also,” the minister added.

The Andamanese people are the various aboriginal inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, a district of India, located in the southeastern part of the Bay of Bengal.

The Andamanese are anthropologically classified as Negritos (sometimes also called Proto-Australoids), together with a few other isolated groups Semang of Malaysia and the Aeta of the Philippines in Asia. They have a hunter-gatherer style of living and appear to have lived in substantial isolation for thousands of years. This degree of isolation is unequaled, except perhaps by the aboriginal inhabitants of Tasmania. The Andamanese are believed to be descended from the migrations which, about 60,000 years ago, brought modern humans out of Africa to India and Southeast Asia. Some anthropologists postulate that Southern India and Southeast Asia was once populated largely by Negritos similar to those of the Andamans and that some tribal populations in the south of India, such as the Irulas are remnants of that period.

Wow, “human zoo” ugh why can’t people just be people.

you know why….

The darkest people in the world.

wow. wow. just. wow. 

The above article is fucking gross, and just about every other article that exists about these folks (The Jarawa, Sentinelese, Onge, and and Andamanese in case you were wondering) is fucking gross. “The darkest people in the world”???? Are you fucking kidding me???

Almost all of the language used in journalism in regard to these people is dehumanizing and resembles the language used in regard to endangered animals.

[TW for dehumanization and sexual exploitation at link] This article from the Guardian is still using the whole “innocent jungle people” tack, and in the same breath reporting on the police literally leading rape tours into Jarawa territory. There is actually a video, which I did not view, that apparently shows the police forcing partially nude women to dance suggestively for a tourist’s camera. The police are literally accepting bribes to let busloads of tourists in to throw bananas at these people.

Survival International is calling for a tourism boycott, since India isn’t even bothering to comply with the laws they made to keep the Jarawa from being decimated by diseases these “human safari” tourists are bringing in.

Also, the original post article above is wrong again: there are still plenty of people in the world (something like 77 communities in Brazil alone) who’ve never contacted outside society and choose not to.

That original article made me feel like vomiting. As “view from above” as you can possibly get.

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