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Maybe you're proud of the fact that you still haven't updated to Facebook Timeline or started a Twitter account, or that you still read all of your books on paper. But no matter how hard you swim against the mainstream, there are some groups out there who will always top your anachronistic stubbornness -- groups that have managed to avoid pretty much all of civilization right up until, oh, about nowish.

6 The Sentinelese

Via Ferrebeekeeper

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The Sentinelese tribe make their home on North Sentinel Island, India. They're named after the island they live on, because nobody actually knows what they call themselves. In fact, generally speaking, nobody knows much of anything about them. After they survived the 2004 tsunami that swept right over their island (another thing we don't know: how the hell they managed to do that), we sent a few helicopters over the island to photograph them and make sure they were still around.

Via Survivalinternational.org

"That's good. They can probably zoom in later with computers."

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How Did They Avoid the Modern World for So Long?

Easy. Here are the shots from those helicopters:

Via Survivalinternational.org

The whole tribe is set on Aggro Mode.

In 2006, two fishermen whose boat drifted into the shallows near the island were killed by the Sentinelese and then buried in shallow graves. Helicopters flying overhead located their burial sites, but were unable to land because (you guessed it) the locals immediately started shooting arrows at them. Despite the fact that they have basically no idea what a helicopter is, aside from a giant metal bird that occasionally screams through the air to try (and fail) to avenge the deaths of the last invaders.

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And it worked: The modern world just up and backed the hell down. Local policemen refused to go collect the bodies, claiming that if they went in they would be "killed by poison darts and arrows smeared with blood" (which we admit is a pretty good excuse).