The youtuber that brought Coca Cola to the North Sentinel Island’s indigenous people and our eternal colonialism

It is clear that the tragic history of the young Alabama missionary, who arrived at the Chetichella on North Sentinel Island In 2018, and killed shortly after by its inhabitants. To make it clear the simple concept that the population of this small Andaman island does not want visitors at home, it was not enough nor the death of the missionary who arrived on the island with the Bible in hand, and less than the prohibitions explicit in every way to approach and, let alone, the risk of sanctions: evidently There is nothing that can stop the western idea of ​​always having something to teach “good wild”. And this is how in this story of colonialism never pay, the last “missionary”, the Young 24 -year -old Youtuber of the Airzioni Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov (of Father Ukrainian), who landed on the island with another symbol of “brotherhood and religion”: A Coca Cola.

Now the young man, to whom he all went well, because he is alive, even if in prison, according to the Indian law he risks up to 5 years of imprisonment and a fine. But one wonders: what did he want to demonstrate? What records to establish? What message did you want to give when she showed up on the beach with a Coca Cola and a coconut walnut, whistling to attract the attention of the inhabitants?

Tragically, the messages that we Westerners bring to other peoples are always the same, at least from Christopher Columbus onwards. The first is that We think we know it longer than all the others and that our life model is the best. The second is that If we can benefit, money success, fun From looting the places of others, we do it. The third is that We don’t care if our actions put others in difficulty or risk.

Because if we just can’t understand that those indigenous people – as well as all the other under -uncontained tribes in the world (now few and increasingly in danger) – They are consciously choosing not to live like us, but to continue doing it in the way they consider most appropriate. That is: if we really do not want to understand the cultural danger of which we are bearers, however, we could understand the risk to the health to which we expose these populations with our closeness, as virus carriers and diseases potentially fatal for them.

There is a last thorny facet to deal on the topic: If the young YouTuber indignant us, the truth is that the idea of ​​alleged superiority behind his behavior is also a cultural attitude of ours or at least some of us: of those who are seeing the tribes that recite their part in the villages in the Far East; of those who want to go on vacation in the place that remote and intact that no one knows; Of those who want to bathe in the bay of the protected island, going secretly with the tire. Every time we overwhelm the right of people (and I also add some animals) to live their life, regardless of us.