Lets say you wanted to reach North Sentinel Island undetected by them, and then try to somehow integrate into their community. How would you go about it? Be creative.
Lets assume diseases and immunity aren’t an issue here. Everyone is biologically safe in this hypothetical.
Not trying to do anything of the sort. Just a thought I had while pooping at work.
Eventually your body will decompose and feed nutrients into their eco system. Can’t be more integrated than that.
Took the “be creative” assignment seriously. Appreciate that lol
I didn’t have a lot of options since they kill all outsiders.
The society is small enough that everyone knows everyone and a new stranger will be noticed immediately even if they spoke the language perfectly.
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Be the same skin tone as them, and have the same features, you’ll likely have to go full Tropic Thunder.
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Learn their language and cultural norms over decades of observation
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Somehow convince a community of under 200 people that you’ve been there the whole time and they just never noticed you.
It sounds crazy, but there was a bit on an early Zac Creger show called “Wrecked” where they’d add characters after the first season and the explanation was they’d been on the island the whole time and no one paid attention to them.
Hilarious show
Characters on the show (and the audience) are at least familiar with the concept of “stranger”. On NSI, the inhabitants can list every single known human in their universe—convincing them there’s a human they never noticed would be like convincing you there’s a natural number between 6 and 7 you never noticed before.
Being Sam Reich. Noted.
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The population of the whole island is about a hundred people—their basic concept of “humanity” is probably limited to people they’ve seen grow up from birth. (Which would explain why they attack outsiders on sight.)
In theory you might be able to pass yourself off as some kind of supernatural figure, but not without knowing anything about their belief system first.
My bet would be on being strait on the island and let them find me while unconscious. I believe helping others is a humans instinct and that would trigger on them. if that happens they would help me recover and take care of me bonding on the process.
I would be afraid you would wake up as they were digging your grave or preparing your funeral pyre
If you tried this you would probably end up dead. The Sentinelese have a history of simply killing any strangers who get too close, including fishermen whose boat accidentally ran ashore on their island.
The best way to show up on their Island and fully integrate is to be left there as a newborn baby, as long as baby has the same skin color as the indigenous people. And hope they decide to take care of the baby & keep it instead of murdering it.
No one else would have a chance.
