A lot of people seem to believe the Sentinelese are pissed off for no reason. The British did expeditions there in the 1800s and killed a bunch of elderly people and kidnapped children. The Sentinelese have been justifiably cautious ever since.
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There is a historical theory that when colonialism was huge, someone escaped from the terror from somewhere else and warned the North Sentinelese about it, so they've been super aggressive against any outsider ever since. And well, it worked for them. Their reputation goes WAY back.
Yeah I mean being very isolated and very defensive towards colonisers is about the only strategy that seems to work.
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Idk I like the idea that the missionary went to the island and went "Actually this way of living owns fuck jesus I'll stay here hand me a fuckin' bow"
This has happened a lot historically all over the world. Turns out that being a disposable foot soldier for an evil expansionist empire isn't a great way to live and a lot of them took the chance to defect to indigenous societies when they could.