Monday, January 24, 2011

Jared Diamond: Guns,germs,steel

Jared Diamond is a professor who has studied the past for more than 30 years. He wants to peel back the layers and explore the modern world of guns, germs, and steel.  He starts this search in the Papua New Guinea rainforest. A country off the northern coast of Australia. He picked up a lot about birds from them; birds are a species that are full of history. The New Guinea people have been living there for 40,000 years, but they still like cavemen.  They are a culturally diverse country and are poorer than modern Americans. Why haven't they adapted the same technology as the rest of the world? I think that it’s because they aren’t as open to the world as the rest of us and they aren’t a culturally diverse country like we are.  

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  1. Good observations, Caitlin! I'm looking forward to reading more of your writing.

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