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[madoka]

I'm sure many NETs may feel a certain kinship with these poor women:

The Jarawa tribe have lived in peace in the Andaman Islands for thousands of years. Now tour companies run safaris through their jungle every day and wealthy tourists pay police to make the women - usually naked - dance for their amusement. This footage, filmed by a tourist, shows Jarawa women being told to dance by an off-camera police officer.

NSFW! Women are topless in a National Geographic sort of way:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jan/07/andaman-islanders-human-safari-video

"Dance," the policeman instructed. The girls in front of him, naked from the waist up, obeyed. A tourist's camera panned round to another young woman, also naked and awkwardly holding a bag of grain in front of her. "Dance for me," the policeman commanded.

The young woman giggled, looked shy and hopped from foot to foot. The camera swung back to the others who clapped, swayed and jumped.

This kind of video is the trophy tourists dream of when they set off into the jungles of the Andaman Islands "on safari". The beauty of the forest functions merely as a backdrop. The goal of the trip is to seek out the Jarawa, a reclusive tribe only recently contacted, which is taking the first tentative steps towards a relationship with the outside world.

The Jarawa tribe is 403-strong. Its members are trusting, innocent and hugely vulnerable to exploitation, living in a jungle reserve on South Andaman. The islands are a spectacular magnet for tourists, set in the Bay of Bengal and belonging to India.

The role of the police is to protect tribespeople from unwelcome and intrusive outsiders. But on this occasion the officer had accepted a �200 bribe to get the girls to perform. "I gave you food," he reminded them at the start of the video.

Every day hundreds of tourist cars line up on the Andaman Trunk Road, which winds through the reserve. Signs at the entrance warn them of the rules; no pictures, no contact, nothing to disturb the tribe members. Most are already struggling to come to grips with the diseases of the outside world which have beset them since they started to make forays out of the jungle 14 years ago.

But, on the day the Observer visited, when the gates opened the cameras immediately started clicking. Tourists threw bananas and biscuits to the tribespeople at the roadside, as they would to animals in a safari park.

[ajosshi]

There is a version of this in every part of the world. I think they call them exotic dancers back home.

[duke of new york]

[eamo]

Easy work. Dance for a couple of minutes. Get a meal.

They don't have to turn up there and dance if they don't want to.

Be careful of white guilt. And from The Guardian too!! The mouthpiece of British middle-class white guilt.

[Steelrails]

Is it Mardi Gras already?

[krazijaanu]

Does anyone have any advice about living in South Korea with Diabetes?

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[Maserial]

[krazijaanu]

No Seriously, I have diabetes and am having a hard time getting employment because of medical discrimination

[eamo]

[isitts]

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