"The locals have virtually no contact with the outside world" Topic

So I am watching on H2 one of those "Could it be that?" shows about living dinosaurs on the Cameroon Congo border.

While one of the natives (who is wearing a blue denim jean jacket) is sketching in the dirt a picture of a likely looking animal, the narrator is assuring us that "the locals have virtually no contact with the outside world."
Everyone is wearing WalMart like clothing.

Their dugout canoes have chains in the bow and outboard motors.

Yup. Very little contact.

Clothing via Air Drop??

Whole lot of cargo culting maybe?

I'd imagine it's missionaries that bring them their clothes. they did say "Virtually" and not "absolutely" no contact.

No John, its correct 'O I promise they are real tribesmen of the -IlikiyourIpad people the really are very cut off from the local civilizations but not badly made, boring, Discovery World progams, production staff and the like. Haha.

Or they could mean in the First-World-centric view of no TV, radio or (gasp!) internet.

They probably didn't even notice the clothing as it fits in with their world view.

"Everyone is wearing WalMart like clothing."

Which will probably disappear as soon as the National Geographic photographer shows up and insists on them wearing "native garb" for his photo shoot…. :p

Krippendorf's Tribe?

Is this by the same guy who went looking for man eating vampire bats? Rifftrax did a number on that show.

Sounds like the valley in which I live.

Maybe they eat their visitors and re-use their clothes?

I thought all the "Super Bowl Champion Denver Broncos" t-shirts went to Honduras this year.