January 24, 2011

Today in class we started Western Civilization and we watched a video called Guns, Germs, and Steel. Jared Diamond is the man in the video and the video is about how the world has been shaped by guns, germs, and steel. He talks about separating the haves and the have nots, and the difference between those are a developed country and a non developed country. When talking about developed countries america is one and North Korea and India are not. Jared's journey began in Papua New Guinea, he is a professor at UCLA , but his passion is the study of birds, but while in New Guinea he has become curious about the people. The people in New Guinea are among the most adapted and diverse people in the world, but they are still in the group of countries that are poor. Diamond was impressed by their ingenuity and their eagerness to learn. Jarred's point is that race doesn't matter whether people are successful or not, he used the people of New Guinea as an example. The people in New Guinea know how to be crafty in their own way without technology, they are living a life style almost the same as they had forty thousand years ago.