Tribesmen in the Amazon react to images of our world - Shames Many In Civil Society

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This extract from a TF1 documentary is wonderful.

Transcript:
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We asked them to react to images of our world of which they are so mistrustful.
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We showed them the worst and the best.
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At midday, they invited us to gather in the men's hut where women are forbidden.
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Have you seen these images before?
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No, never.
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Did you know that the white man had been to the moon?
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Yes, we heard about it.
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But why did you go there? What did you hope to find there?
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What is the point of humans going there?
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How do you feel about man walking on the moon?
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It worries us.
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The moon was created far from the earth so that we couldn't touch it.
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The moon is there to provide light at night.
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There were never as many eclipses before.
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You must have disturbed it.
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We've noticed changes here. It's getting warmer and warmer.
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There is less cool air than before.
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With your technology, you will kill the moon.
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These are our gardens.
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French style gardens.
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What do you think of these gardens in comparison to the forest that you are used to?
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It's not good what you do to your plants.
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You are hurting them by cutting them this way.
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We believe plants have a spirit.
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It is wrong to treat them like this.
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Cutting a tree is to make it suffer.
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When we uproot trees for our cassava plantations we are sad.
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The plants that you cut and trim, if you did not water them they would likely die.
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Do you know what this is?
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It's called snow.
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In cold countries, icy white particles fall from the sky and men glide on them.
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This is a white man's war. This is how white men go to war.
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What do you think about this when you still use bows and arrows?
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When we kill an animal, we feel sorry for it.
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Can you imagine how we'd feel about a human?
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What do you kill for? To eat?
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Unless it is part of your culture?
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But you have also gone to war with other tribes.
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Yes but it's not the same thing.
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You white men go to war to take something from this earth.
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Not us.
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It's true, our ancestors did go to war like he said.
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A child or a woman was stolen from us.
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We would attack the tribe with our bows and arrows to steal a child or a woman.
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But without killing the whole community or destroying everything with bombs like you do.
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It's completely different. It's a form of trade.
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You steal from me, I steal from you.
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In fact, those who went to war were generally the cannibal Indians.
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Do you recognise him?
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Does the Chief know who this is?
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No, we don't know him.
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Zidane is a French football player. One of the most famous players in the world.
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I wanted to know if Zidane could reach out as far as your tribe. Obviously not.
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And do you know him?
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Do you know who this is?
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Michael Jackson.
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How do you know?
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I saw him once on TV in the town.
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How many of you know him?
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Do the elders know him?
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No, we don't know him.
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Never heard of him.
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He is considered to be the greatest superstar in the world.
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They say that wherever you might be in the world, someone knows Michael Jackson.
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Even in your tribe the young people know him.
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It's the 11th of September. Two planes crash into towers in New York.
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Would someone like to comment?
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It's like the evil witches we have here. Those people have no mercy for anyone.
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The people who did this have no heart and they don't even know who they are killing.
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This is what we do with our old people.
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In France, when people are too old, we put them in homes without their families and children.
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What do you do with your old people?
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For us the elders are sacred.
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We really look after them.
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We never abandon them.
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They are our ancestors. We assist them.
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The family cares for them until the end. There is no separate place for old people here.
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We have to remember everything they have done for us.
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From our birth, right up to our adult life.
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These images sadden me. This would never happen here.
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In France, when we want to tell a woman we love her, we kiss her on the mouth.
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Do you do this too?
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We never kiss on the mouth.
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We talk and learn to get to know each other.
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Then we see if it works.
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How do you tell a woman you love her?
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What signs do you show to let her know that you love her?
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We take a woman in our arms and caress her.
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If she doesn't refuse, it's ok.
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Otherwise she pushes us away.
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In the west, we had to create this drug to stop us from having children.
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Have you heard of this?
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We don't need to take medicine. We have what we need in the forest.
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We even have plants that help with abortions in the first stages of pregnancy.
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In some parts of the world, women dress like this.
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Their husbands must be very jealous.
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Aren't they warm dressed like that?
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Your women live nude. How do you feel about these veils?
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But how do they wash?
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Do they have to stay like this inside their homes?
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Are they allowed to take the clothes off or not?
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After all, if it's their culture.
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We have a lot of respect for singers that have the confidence to sing alone in front of others.
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When the audience listens, it feels a deep solitude.
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What do the young warriors think about Las Callas?
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Does someone want to answer?
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I will speak for the young ones.
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This music is not our culture.
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We do not know what it means. We can only watch and listen.
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But it is touching.
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I find it overwhelming.
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Without understanding her, we can sense something sacred.
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You all look magnificent with your customs and your rituals.
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When you see images of the world, are you frightened of being consumed by it?
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Of course, we are very worried.
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If we allowed you to film us, it is so you can show the white people who we are.
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We are extremely anxious for the future of our children.
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How will they live?
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We feel the pressure of the white man building up all around us and our forest.
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Like it or not, we will resist and fight, so that you do not pollute our earth.

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