We have a lot to learn from newly discovered tribe

Saturday, February 04, 2012

In relation to your picture and article on last Wednesday’s Examiner of a Peruvian tribe sitting on the edge of a river bank — this tribe, and others like them, have been living in the jungle area uncontacted for thousands of years and now, apparently, due to logging of trees and natural gas exploration, they have come in contact with modern man who through contact has given them diseases that could kill the tribes.

These people must be terrified with the threat to their way of life and the only way they know how to react is with hostility. I think the picture illustrates how advanced we have become, but at the same time how much we have lost along the way. I think we could learn more from these people and their way of life, than we could ever hope to offer them from ours.

Donal O’Shea
Macroom
Co Cork

This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Saturday, February 04, 2012