Contacting Indigenous Populations

"In 2011, more than a hundred tribes around the world choose to reject contact with outsiders.

Many of them will be aware of the violence and disease which ravage isolated communities following contact. All have the opportunity to encounter the outside world but choose not to.

Until recent times, uncontacted peoples who succumbed to outsiders' diseases and violence simply disappeared. Today most of their lands are protected -- at least on paper -- and invasions of their lands are seen as a major human rights violation.

Survival continues to put pressure on governments and corporations to respect the rights of uncontacted and isolated peoples throughout the world." says the http://www.survivalinternational.org/goodnews.

If we start contacting these people they will have better medical treatment, will be able to preserve the land that they call home, and they will be able to have a better understanding of how to protect their human rights. Part of their human rights are to decided to not to be contacted again by humans yet at least they know their options. We want to help them grow and keep such a unique way of life alive and well. Some indigenous populations will want the help while others may not, yet as a society we cannot wonder what they are thinking and wanting, because we extended the "hand" and they just now need to take the support. 


An example of this can be the pilgrims and the indians of American. If the pilgrims didn't help the Indians one winter they would have possibly all died off. Yet, Indian culture of America is still preserved they have the opportunities just like the rest of the society. 

Indigenous People

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/studyguides/indigenous.html 

Chomsky vs. Foucault Debate

After watching the well developed debate between Chomsky and Foucault I can came to the conclusion that Chomsky's ideas and Foucault's ideas are opposing of one another. Chomsky right away makes a clear thesis to his point of view by stating that, "the fundamental elements of human nature are the need for creative work, creative inquiry, free creation without the obituary effects of coercion institutions." This statement clearly explains his view and he immediately backs his idea up with supportive reasoning. After Chomsky makes his point, Foucault immediately explains that this cannot be the case. Foucault believes that the society is not a democracy and he says we are living under the dictatorship of class, that is imposed by violence. 

At times this argument was so deep that is was hard for me to comprehend everything the two men we saying, yet I could clearly tell that they had strong evidence to support each of the main points that they made and there reasoning for thinking this to be true. Both men also let each other talk, and they both listened with great intent before making their own next point. I think that this is why the argument was successfully and respectfully done.