# Suppose We Found  A Village Like This?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 19, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-we-found-a-village-like-this/728253 "2015-08-19T12:08:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-we-found-a-village-like-this/728253/1 "2015-08-19T12:08:45Z")

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In the same vein as a “Time Warp”-I have always wondered if in some remote spot, people just decided not to be modern-suppose the inhabitants kept dressing and behaving as if it was 1890. It would be interesting to see if such a community could stay together-maybe like the Amish?

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**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-we-found-a-village-like-this/728253/2 "2015-08-19T12:33:31Z")

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Here’s a story you might enjoy.

> **[Should Society Start Contacting the Amazon's Uncontacted Tribes?](https://www.vice.com/en/article/d39vmy/should-society-start-contacting-the-amazons-uncontacted-tribes)**
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> There are an estimated 100 uncontacted tribes in the Amazon. As the jungle shrinks and civilization encroaches, some academics are arguing that society's 'hands-off' policy is a failure.

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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-we-found-a-village-like-this/728253/3 "2015-08-19T14:50:49Z")

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Have you seen M. Night Shyamalan’s _The Village_?

The titular village appears to have deliberately maintained an old (pre-automobile) lifestyle. Although typical Shyamalan twists follow, the reasoning of the village’s founders turns out to be relevant to your thread topic.

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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-we-found-a-village-like-this/728253/4 "2015-08-19T15:25:44Z")

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I think the Amish have solidly demonstrated that such a community _can_ stay together.

On a tangent: not a village here, but a [family of six](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/?no-ist) was isolated from the rest of the world for 42 years.

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**Author:** ![Vaevictis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f04885/32.png) [@Vaevictis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vaevictis)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-we-found-a-village-like-this/728253/5 "2015-08-21T05:38:30Z")

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> [@Sailboat](#):
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> Have you seen M. Night Shyamalan’s _The Village_?
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> The titular village appears to have deliberately maintained an old (pre-automobile) lifestyle. Although typical Shyamalan twists follow, the reasoning of the village’s founders turns out to be relevant to your thread topic.

Yeah you make it sound good but in my opinion that movie was awful. Stay away, far away! Your mileage may vary.