Q: Prologue: What is Yali’s question? Restate the question in Professor Diamond’s words or your own words. A: Yali’s question was simply, “Why is it you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” While many people gave answers to his concern, the answer he was looking for was the geological difference between white and New Guinean people, causing germs to react differently to the black people. Q: Chapter 3: How does Pizarro’s capture of Atahualpa explain why Europeans colonized the New World instead of Native Americans colonizing Europe? A: Pizarro had to capture Atahualpa instead of Native Americans Colonizing Europe because his groups had more advanced technology to overcome Atahualpa’s
In this essay, I will summarize Jared Diamond's accounts of world history and evolution of culture. Jared Diamond begins Guns with a prologue which sets the stage for the rest of the book. Approached in New Guinea by his friend and local politician Yali, he is posed a question: "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?" Yali's question flared a nerve in Diamond. This question brought about the thesis of his book, that environment is more persuasive on development of civilization than people may have once thought.
Racial Ideology, American Politics, and the Peculiar Role of the Social Sciences”; where he explains his research on the intersection of poverty, crime and race. Bobo contends the United States is faced with a sophisticated, elusive and enduring race problem. His use of two separate focus groups one being all white and the other being all black uncovered evidence to support just how complex the race problem in America is. Bobo contends the just saying that the race problem still endures is not to say that it remains fundamentally the same and essentially the same. Bobo asks how we can have milestone decisions like Brown V. Board, pass a civil rights act, a voting act, fair housing acts, and numerous acts of enforcement and amendments, including the pursuit of affirmative action policies and still continue to face a significant racial divide in America.
Name: Course: Instructor: Date: “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond The key theme of Jared Diamond’s book “Guns, Germs, and Steel” is the history of societies and cultures as well as their place in that history. In 1998, it won the prize for a nonfiction book and became the national best seller that year. Diamond caught the attention of the public by his book with a fascinating account of more than 13000 years of human evolution and development. He contends that the lapses in power and technology in the human societies originated from differentiated environments. The author argues that while cultural or genetic make-up has favored Eurasians regarding resistance to endemic diseases and development of writing earlier than on the other
This caused a huge gap between continental differences and why history turned out the way it did. Diamond attempts to prove his theory on the evolutionary
In an interview with PBS, Diamond states that two of the largest factors contributing to the explanation of what the sources of underdeveloped and inequality in the contemporary world are the differences in availability of wild plants and animals suitable for domestication, and the difference in the shapes or orientations of continents. In the past, the Sub-Saharan Africans, New Guineans, Native Americans, and aboriginal Australians were at a disadvantage to the Eurasian continent in similar ways that countries today are at a disadvantage to other countries. Through thorough research of the past, Diamond offers an explanation for the present. There is a large gap between the rich and the poor societies around the world and Diamond believes that it has nothing to do with the differences in people within those areas, but in-turn, everything to do with the differences in the environment and geography of the continent. A major contributor to the pace of continents and their developments is the landmass of each continent.
In chapter 17, Prelude to the European conquest of Africa, British abolitionists create a colony called Freetown were freed African slaves settled. It was a safe haven for freed slaves. This was sort of a shift from what Europeans originally used Africa for, which was the trading of slaves and gold. Everything Europeans needed was accessible on the Western coast of Africa, resulting in the interior to rarely be ventured. One man who argued that slavery was inefficient was Scottish philosopher Adam Smith.
He goes on to say that "...there are so many different sources contributing to the country's social alamgam." This quote further reitorates the fact that the Australian identity needs to be a multicultrual identity, not the stereotypical Anglo-Saxon identity it is today. This hurdle of breaking the stereotype is put further and further in the distance as racism is a key segregation factor, diminishing the Australian identity. The racism found in Australia can be partially derived from the need to conform to the 'Australian' stereotype and a negative outlook towards those who don't. The article "Australia Day car flag flyers 'racist'" by Rhianna King states "... is linked in this instance to
The Atlantic Slave Trade: a census Philip D. Curtin Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. 286 pages Reviewed by Christopher Wirtanen November 4, 2011 Clark College The book The Atlantic Slave Trade was written by Philip D. Curtin and is an explanation of how the Slave trade started and what it was before it was fully developed. He also asks questions about whether slaves were actually needed to make the Colonies advance and grow. He goes into much depth about the pre-Atlantic Slave Trade and how the Africans themselves bought slaves. This book talks about many things other than just the Atlantic Slave Trade, by going into such depth on many topics.
How have cultural anthropologists sought to combat racism? Anthropologists have long disputed the concept of race and culture; history shows multiply Anthropologists different views and beliefs on this topic. Some have fueled the spread of racism with accepted prejudices, while other have committed their life works to using science to disprove these embedded theories, and prove equality of all people and cultures they belong to. In this essay I with explore a range of Anthropologists different views and opinions of race in relation to racism. We see society as varying into different divisions but we can all be seen as one race, the human race.