Making Conversation Appiah Analysis

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In the essay Making Conversation, I agree with most of the ideas that Appiah had talked about. Appiah says “if a normal baby girl 40,000 years ago was kidnapped by a time traveler and raised by a normal family in New York, she would be ready for college in eighteen years”. Appiah is trying to say in today’s society going to college is the norm and with a normal family the parents would shape the girl in that direction. I believe that is true even if the baby girl was from a different time period, she would learn and grow up to today’s lifestyle and go to college by eighteen. Appiah also says that if you walk down 5th avenue you will see more people than most prehistoric gatherers saw in a lifetime. In my opinion that is true because eleven

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