I think you’ve point in that—but that you take it too far. I don’t have any precise study to point at, but from historical or anthropological books I read, and my own traveling experience, I got the impression that even broad culture clashes (like a tribe of native amazonian hunter/gatherer encountering the “civilized” world for the first time) are not as dreadful as you paint them. For example, Darwin explains in one his travel books how quickly the “savage” from some islands adapt to the modern life (of his time).
Some parts of our world is definitely scary for them, but even with such gap, not as much as it feels from your article. And it feels quite… barren to me to speak about “how scary the present would be for people from the past” without looking at situations which do exist and are very similar (isolated culture “stuck in the past” who encounter the “modern world”).
Anyone with more anthropological background than myself could validate or invalidate this idea, or point me to a study on that topic ?
I think you’ve point in that—but that you take it too far. I don’t have any precise study to point at, but from historical or anthropological books I read, and my own traveling experience, I got the impression that even broad culture clashes (like a tribe of native amazonian hunter/gatherer encountering the “civilized” world for the first time) are not as dreadful as you paint them. For example, Darwin explains in one his travel books how quickly the “savage” from some islands adapt to the modern life (of his time).
Some parts of our world is definitely scary for them, but even with such gap, not as much as it feels from your article. And it feels quite… barren to me to speak about “how scary the present would be for people from the past” without looking at situations which do exist and are very similar (isolated culture “stuck in the past” who encounter the “modern world”).
Anyone with more anthropological background than myself could validate or invalidate this idea, or point me to a study on that topic ?