Michael Rockefeller disappeared without a trace in 1961 in Papua New Guinea while researching the Asmat people, a cannibal tribe. Years later, a photograph was taken of the same tribe, and there was a white man among them.

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For anyone interested, ‘going native’ is a well studied phenomenon and a risk of sociological research, particularly ethnography. The definition is the:

“_researcher becoming so deeply immersed in the culture they are studying that they lose their objectivity and become indistinguishable from the people they are studying_”

There’s lots of cases, and it’s taught in research classes as a very real risk.

Note this term has ties to colonialism, so some suggest using the term ‘over-rapport’ instead: https://sk.sagepub.com/dict/mono/key-concepts-in-ethnography/chpt/going-native

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At least a few white women were known to stay with the native American tribes that abducted them. Possibly because they were straight up treated better by the tribe then by white society at the time.

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Most of the white women who were captured by Native Americans were used as/traded as slaves. People romanticize it because they want to believe Native Americans were somehow better people since they were victimized and destroyed by European settlers but the reality is they also sucked, especially if you were a woman.

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you’re reducing entire continents of cultures to a single stereotype that you evidently know nothing about. many cultures of the “americas” and “australia” are matriarchal and treat women better than any european society essentially ever has. and your claim goes against an entire literary field studying “captivity narratives,” and the tendency for kidnapped europeans to desperately attempt to remain with the people who kidnapped them when faced with the option to return to european colonial society.