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Today we reviewed our exams and I did better than I thought I was going to do. We also started watching Guns, Germs, and Steel in class. The video was originally a book written by Jared Diamond in 1977. Jared was a professor of geography and physiology at the University of California Los Angeles. He is also a biologist and enjoys studying birds. He came to Papua New Guinea to watch birds. He learned several New Guinean languages and learned a lot about the people there. People have lived there for 40,000 years and they still don't have the advancements that most places have. He wondered why the people there are so much poorer. Yali's question was why do white men have so much cargo and New Guineans have so little? He meant cargo as material goods that Europeans brought to Papua New Guinea. Guns, Germs, and Steel argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate primarily in environmental differences.

When Europeans first went to Papua New Guinea, they thought that power was directly determined by race.They believed that they were genetically superior. This is know as white supremacy. But Jared Diamond has seen all the Papua New Guineans can build and do just using their hands, so he knows there is no way that they can be inferior.