1/30/15

Today in class we watched a movie called Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Jared Diamond is a scientists who grew up loving birds. The movie took place in Papua New Guinea, a country whose citizens still living like hunters/ gathers. They still will like this because they are secluded. The people are not starving, not unhappy, and are satisfied with what they have. 

There were two important questions in the part tat we watched that Mr.Schick told us to write down.

• What separates the haves from the have nots? 
• Why do white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? 

The New Guineans can not believe how much cargo that Americans have compared to them. They can't believe that there are canned meat and goods, and boxed cereal. When whites people visited before they took advantage of the New Guineans and made them think that whites are genetically better. Diamond believes that New Guineans are very intelligent in they way that they live. The can go out into a forest and build a shelter in 15-20 min. Something we couldn't do.

 

There are three reasons why some civilizations have progressed? 

• Advanced technology 
• Large populations 
• Well-organized work force