We've spoken at length several times about whether or not these folks would be better off with most or all of the technological conveniences that almost everyone in the western world enjoys. These people who still live very much the way they did 20, 50, and even 200 years ago. Not exactly the way they did, but approximately.
Many of the women still wear heavy, thick, beaded skirts, shirts, and leg wraps; even when the temperature and humidity are very high. They still handle raw pork with a bare hand in the market, eating afterwards with the same bare hand, having only wiped the hand on a shirt, with no knowledge of the risk they are taking. We've seen very few refrigerators, and no microwaves. We've watched a barefoot elderly man plow a rice field with a steel blade on a wooden apparatus pulled by a buffalo.
Would these folks be better off with polyester blend breathable quick drying clothes, anti-bacterial gel, moist handi-wipes, GE, LG, and John Deere? We have our suspicions. We even have strong suspicions. But our strongest suspicion is that even if we think we know, we might not be justified in thinking that we know. And we might even be wrong.
Chuck
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