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.

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[–] 52 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Eventually your body will decompose and feed nutrients into their eco system. Can't be more integrated than that.

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago

    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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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)
    1. Be the same skin tone as them, and have the same features, you'll likely have to go full Tropic Thunder.

    2. Learn their language and cultural norms over decades of observation

    3. 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

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    You could sneak onto the island somehow, that shouldn't be much of a problem.

    But integrating with their society? They will out you in literally seconds, the first time you spoke. If they didn't recognize you as an outsider on sight, they'd recognize from your voice, accent, speech, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, syntax, etc. that you were a phony before you finished your first sentence.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I'd leave people alone.

    I seriously don't get why people can't leave others alone.

    My biggest pet peeve is people bothering me when I just want to do my thing and they get all butt hurt that I won't give them attention or acknowledge their stupid concerns about my attire or book or my car being covered in pollen. Get a fucking life and focus on your own shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Good point.

    That said, about your car that's covered in pollen...

    Is it clutch or automatic?

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Bro is trying to play Amongus irl 💀

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Have advanced plastic surgery to become an identical doppelganger of a specific North-Sentinelese. Abduct the original person, then show up on the island pretending to have suffered a traumatic head injury, so you can't talk or understand them.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I'd bring weed and snacks.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    There was a Christian missionary who went there not long ago, he integrated pretty quickly. They ate him.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Well even if I tried it and made friends with the sonsabitches my blackface paint job would wash off the first rain and give me away! I ain’t chancing it.

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