Guns, Germs, and Steel

           In the video Guns, Germs, and Steel , there was a man named Jared Diamond who was living in Papua New Guinea  to study birds. He also studied to be a professor but moved there for his love of birds ever since he was seven. He is now known as a leading expert in the bird life of New Guinea. One day when he was out on the beach a New Guinean man came up to him and asked, “Why do white men have more things than us?” New Guinea has been there for about 40,000 years, but yet our civilization has so much more only being created for about five hundred years. Jared Diamonds question was why? Well Jared first found out that New Guineans are used to us having so much stuff, also known as “cargo.” They think that our cargo is powerful and they are just kind of used to us having more cargo then them. And that is one of the various reasons why Jared believes that New Guineans have so much less than we do, simply because that’s the way they think it should be.