eli5 Why are there no uncontacted tribes of White European descent?
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Most of the world’s uncontacted tribes live in the amazon, which is hard to get into so they are quite isolated
The closest european counterpart i can think of are the sámi people of northern Scandinavia. For most of history Scandinavians and sámi left each other alone until quite recently
They knew about each other but they didn’t interact much, much like the tribes of the amazon, whose existence was known by their neighbours
Of course if you follow old racial classifications maybe the sámi don’t count because they weren’t considered ‘white’
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