Isolated Tribe of New Guinea: Reactions with the Outside World

The second largest island - the first going to Greenland, New Guinea is home to an estimated 44 uncontacted tribal groups. The world is closing in on them, though. Those who live in such remote isolation, is like they don’t live in the same world as we do, though they do. Today’s society is closing in on them and slowly deforesting their homes and places they live.
They live in forest depths in huts and up in the trees. Surviving by hunting, fishing, gathering plants, and berries, is how they live. So isolated from our world today, knowing nothing of television, Internet, and all our technological we have today, that have even become almost accustomed into our everyday lives. They know of airplanes but only because of the fact that there are airplanes that fly close and low to their settlements from time to time. Since they are so distanced from the world we have today, some wonder whether we should leave them to their course of fate or help them and push them to our way of living.
The isolated tribe of New Guinea try to stay isolated but as we search for oil and log, we destroy their homes, making it that much harder for them to stay as they are. They aren’t really sure on who we are, how we exist in such manners, or know much of how we live. Yet, we study them and watch them as we slowly face them to what fate has decided or we can push them into our society and hope they can survive the diseases they never have had to make contact with and if they survive, slowly they’d lose their grip on their old culture as they adjust to our world. Only few will maintain their spiritual beliefs, languages, and culture.
Though, the isolated tribes that live within New Guinea have one of the highest numbers on our planet, they still face such problems. Maybe because of their lack of mixing with people from outside their tribes, or maybe from not adapting as life has. Whichever way it is, we have studied and come to learn that they do not like to react with the outside world. They know little of what we know so much of. As we grow and they continue to not react with the changing outside world that is around them, it makes it difficult for either we or them to learn anything about one another. Leaving us with a blind spot in our knowledge, whether it be for good or bad, no one can know.
I reference my writing to several articles, readings, and wikipedia. That is how I have come to the conclusion that they do not seem to be a group who would like to mix with the outsiders, in this case being us. They have survived so long by hunting, fishing, and gathering, living huts and tree houses. They are so high on their own spiritual beliefs, enriched with their cultures and languages, it’s no wonder they don’t want to change what it is they know and how they live. They try to stay hidden and away from our world.
I find it quite disheartening to read that because they don’t mix with our world that we are slowly destroying their homes and their way of life. We make it almost impossible for them to survive more than a little longer. I do personally think that they are stuck in their own ways because we do not try hard enough to mix with them, rather than they mix with us. We’re the ones who have changed and become different, while they have stayed the same. They have stayed the same for so long and have maintained their lives just by not reacting with us. They probably won’t react with us, the outside world, any time soon either.