Commentary On 'Correia' By Jared Diamond

are smarter than New Guineans: “However, the differential had little to do with intelligence, and instead involved generic resistance dependent on details of body chemistry.” (21) Moreover, His meticulous academic attitude and comprehensive logic structure shown in him being skeptical all the time. Even questioning whether Yali’s question itself founded or not: “One objection goes as follows. If we succeed in explaining how some people came to dominate other people, may this not seem to justify the domination? Doesn’t it seem to day that the outcome is inevitable, and that it would therefore be futile to try to change the outcome today?” (17) His use of objective language and actual historical evidence would be the strongest and indisputable demonstration (proof?, argument?), because historical evidences themselves have the authenticity and credibility which nothing else can compare. Only such writing documents able to recur what was actually happening in the …show more content…
All of us were full of fear, because we were so few in number and we had penetrated so far into a land where we could not hope to receive reinforcements. We all met with the Governor to debate what we should undertake the next day.” (70)

In reading Correia’s paper about Jared Diamond, I found I trust Jared Diamond’s argument more. Correia suggests that Jared Diamond argument has undertones of racism when discussing where people come from, but did not even give any actual counter evidence or proof regarding Diamond’s theory of Environmental Determinism, instead choosing to sling mud at Diamond’s argument. In addition, Correia focuses the perceived racism