Meet the Natives- Must watch TV!

[FarmerChick]

you know I saw the ad for the new episode ---in Orange Cty and they were getting mani/pedi and all that. I chose not to watch it....for some reason that lifestyle just doesn't interest me...even to be funny...LOL
That show is losing interest for me for some reason.

 

[Blackbird]

The thing is; when people like us (well most of us) watch it, we can compare to the Natives, their opinions of how most Americans live, the lifestyles, attributes.. in some ways at least..

While the majority of those out there watch it, they are laughing at the Native's 'ignorance' and 'stupidity'.



I don't plan on watching it, it sounds painful. What do the Natives get out of it?

 

[FarmerChick]

I guess they get a trip to see how the crazies live?
LOL

they do get to see how others live which is good for them I suppose????

I wonder what their "payment" is for this show? Huh??

 

[bibliophile birds]

I don't plan on watching it, it sounds painful. What do the Natives get out of it?

i think it's wonderful for them. i mean, for decades the Western world has been invading them with cameras for specials on the lives of "primitive peoples." to me, as an Anthropologist, this show is a sweet dose of payback. it's about time some of those "primitives" got to follow us around with a camera and comment on our weird behavior.

the 5 men that came on this trip said they wanted to understand our lifestyles. which makes sense. they (well, their grandparents probably) worked with the Americans during WWII, so they feel they have some connection with us. they wanted to come to spread a message of peace and hope. that's enough to make me want to watch.

 

[bibliophile birds]

Then they started blaming some factory in the US for their yams being smaller. WTH???

HA HA
they hear a bit about global warming and polluting clouds of smoke and it makes their weather change and they blame the factories for producing that smoke. UGH

i don't think they were trying to say that that particular factory was to blame, just the idea of industrial pollution, which they identify as being from factories.

and it's a fair point that US factories are impacting South Pacific crops. because of air currents/weather patterns, our air pollution settles over Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, including their home of Tanna. i know several farmers in Australia and New Zealand that are having the same issues. it's a problem with ozone thinning which is creating intense sunlight and heat, as well as acid rain which is destroying the soil.

 

[Blackbird]

Hopefully they go home appreciating their wholesome and more natural ways of life.

 

[bibliophile birds]

Hopefully they go home appreciating their wholesome and more natural ways of life.

i'm sure they will. they make me want to go join them on their island!

 

[Wifezilla]

US factories are impacting South Pacific crops. because of air currents/weather patterns, our air pollution settles over Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, including their home of Tanna. i know several farmers in Australia and New Zealand that are having the same issues. it's a problem with ozone thinning which is creating intense sunlight and heat, as well as acid rain which is destroying the soil.

I am not sure how old you are, but I am 46. I grew up steeped in acid rain mythology in the 70's. Yes... mythology. Turns out it was a complete fraud...
"On Tuesday evening, July 25, Ned Potter of ABC News did a
three-minute segment purporting to show how acid rain (caused by
sulphur dioxide -- SO2 -- emissions from Midwestern utilities)
was killing trees in Camel's Hump Mountain in Vermont.
Aerial photos showed a pattern of dead or dying tall spruce
trees. We were informed acid rain was sterilizing the soil. An
environmentalist guided us through the devastation. It was
potent TV.
It was also a hoax.
When the Camel's Hump story was first brought to national
attention in Natural History magazine in 1982, soil scientists
flocked to see it first hand. But, in order to examine the dead
or dying trees, they had to fight their way up through a
veritable jungle of healthy young red spruce trees and new
growth."
http://www.fortfreedom.org/n15.htm

As for the ozone hole, it has shrunk. Of course, now they are saying that the hole closing will melt all the ice. Whatever!!!

I have been through so many crisis that need "immediate action" or "________ will happen in ______ years" !

Top soil crisis, population bomb, acid rain, ozone hole, the great landfill crisis, etc.....

They just dust off the rhetoric every so often and someone makes a pile of money while nothing changes and the world somehow keeps turning.

 

[FarmerChick]

oh I know they weren't saying that factory....but it would be nice to include the 50 other countries that produce the factory smoke also.
oh well...blame the USA for everything in this world right?

 

[bibliophile birds]

As for the ozone hole, it has shrunk. Of course, now they are saying that the hole closing will melt all the ice. Whatever!!!

I have been through so many crisis that need "immediate action" or "________ will happen in ______ years" !

Top soil crisis, population bomb, acid rain, ozone hole, the great landfill crisis, etc.....

They just dust off the rhetoric every so often and someone makes a pile of money while nothing changes and the world somehow keeps turning.

i'm not a scientist (but i play one on TV... hehehe), so i can't talk at length about any of this. i'm just relaying what i've been told by my friends that live in that area. soil tests are consistently showing higher levels of certain compounds that are supposedly related to acid rain (say scientists, not me). farms, including well managed organic ones, are having trouble because of the change in their soil.

i'm not arguing that it's the end of the world, just that the men on the show aren't being naive to think that their crops are bad because of pollution. they are actually in tune with most people in that part of the world.