This Is How a Tribe Welcomes Strangers Ft. Abhijit Iyer Mitra

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]what Papua New Guinea is. I just went there because I was living and working in a place called Port Douglas. And once I landed there, I made lots of friends with helicopter pilots and [ __ ] And they're like, "Bro, you know, there's like headunting tribes and cannibal tribes and things like that. Most of it's unexplored." And I'm like, "Holy [ __ ] where have I landed up? This is like so cool." So, he took me to this tribe. Every time we went to one of those tribes, the helicopter's rotor was kept off because they go from, "Oh, you're a new guest. Welcome. you can marry my daughter or my wife instantly.

[00:00:30]Um, and marry is being polite. They want you to [ __ ] And if you say no, you're immediately enemy. They're ready to kill you in an instant.

[00:00:37]>> But why do they even want that?

[00:00:39]>> It's their way of showing honor to a guest who's come. And if not, you've turned down the honor that I'm showing you, and I'm guessing, and we're going to kill you. You're an enemy.