What can/should societies do?

What should society do for “uncivilized cultures” like the Sawi?”

- What does the society need to for people who are still uneducated, barbaric, and struggling to survive? First of all, it needs to help them survive. All its other pursuits would be futile when they perish. Second, it should familiarize the uncivilized people with the highly developed and civilized parts of today’s world, which may be very unexpected and menacing to them. One of the primary motives of today’s society is helping uncivilized people gain a better standard of living, and this will be possible when these people are familiar with the cultures of the civilized world around them. Without embracing the ideas of the rest of the world, they will not accept the benefits offered by the society. Then the society should introduce tools and methods of living that allow these people to survive more easily and gain better living standards. When the uncivilized people see the benefits of the civilized world, they will accept its ideas and cultures.
Society, however, should definitely not seek to gain profit and other benefits from uncivilized people, at least in initial stages of interaction. This usually leads to a disadvantage to the uncivilized, as the civilized will manipulate the resources and values enjoyed by the former. Profits from uncivilized cultures should only be sought once they are actually civilized and are able to understand how the society around them works. Mutual consent of both sides to trade and interact should take place before any profits are sought by the more civilized. In sum, society should first think about benefiting the uncivilized, motivated by generosity, like Don Richardson, rather than greed.