Introduction
Is the United States dominance as a country related to what Jared Diamond terms in his book Gun, Germs and Steel as the Yali’s question? Where Mr. Yali Jared Diamond’s New Guinean friend who was a politician asked him the reason why it was mainly the whites who developed so much consignment and brought it to New Guinea but they the black people had little shipment to call their own?” Yali’s use of the term cargo/ shipment/consignment connotes material goods such as steel axes, matches, medicines and clothing in other words what Yali was asking is why the West specifically Europe and the United States were and by extension, still are more advanced than the rest of the globe (Diamond , 1997).
How Has the United States Been Lucky In Its Dominance? …show more content…
An important question that one asks oneself after reading Jared’s book is ‘why Europeans and United States leaned towards domination of other peoples on other continents? Did it have to do with race or were the Europeans and United states cleverer than the other races?’ Jared Diamond believes it was not the racial characteristics that altered the scales of fortune for the Europeans it was their geography. Their geographical position gave them access to the best domestic grains and animals which drove them to specialization and advanced technologies in the form of steel and guns. Their domestic animals also helped them develop potent germs and antibodies for those germs which made them more resistant to diseases such as cowpox as compared to those who had not domesticating or practicing animal
Is the United States dominance as a country related to what Jared Diamond terms in his book Gun, Germs and Steel as the Yali’s question? Where Mr. Yali Jared Diamond’s New Guinean friend who was a politician asked him the reason why it was mainly the whites who developed so much consignment and brought it to New Guinea but they the black people had little shipment to call their own?” Yali’s use of the term cargo/ shipment/consignment connotes material goods such as steel axes, matches, medicines and clothing in other words what Yali was asking is why the West specifically Europe and the United States were and by extension, still are more advanced than the rest of the globe (Diamond , 1997).
How Has the United States Been Lucky In Its Dominance? …show more content…
An important question that one asks oneself after reading Jared’s book is ‘why Europeans and United States leaned towards domination of other peoples on other continents? Did it have to do with race or were the Europeans and United states cleverer than the other races?’ Jared Diamond believes it was not the racial characteristics that altered the scales of fortune for the Europeans it was their geography. Their geographical position gave them access to the best domestic grains and animals which drove them to specialization and advanced technologies in the form of steel and guns. Their domestic animals also helped them develop potent germs and antibodies for those germs which made them more resistant to diseases such as cowpox as compared to those who had not domesticating or practicing animal