Guns, Germs, and Steel

In class on January, 23, we watched half of the video "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and took notes. The video is about a guy named Jared Diamond who is a author, professor, biologist, and a bird watcher. Jared Diamond spends time in Papua New Guinea watching birds. While in Papua New Guinea, Jared   gets to know people who live there. One of the people that lives there asked Jared a question that got him thinking. He was asked, "Why you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little?" Jared Diamond thinks that the people in New Guinea are very smart and resourceful while other people find that they are lacking cargo because of race and thats just how they are. People coming in to exploit New Guinea think that white people are superior.

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