Guns, Germs, and Steel 1

Today in school we watched the beginning of a movie called Guns, Germs, and Steel. The movie is based on the book by Jared Diamond. Jared Diamond is a biologist in training and he loves to study birds. He is the main character in the movie. The movie takes place in the rainforest of Papua, New Guinea. The first few minutes that we watched were about people that live in less developed countries doesn't always make them less smart. People have been living in New Guinea for over forty thousand years, which is around the time of the Stone Age. Those people learned how to live in the wilderness with very little, that method has been passed on for years. Now people from New Guinea have been asking how we have so much and they have so little. That doesn't make us any smarter than them because they have so little. If you placed a typical American into the wilderness, they would barely be able to last for a day or two but if you placed a person from New Guinea in the wilderness they would be able to live a whole lifetime. Sure they don't know how to use a car or a computer but that doesn't make it any different from learning how to survive in the wilderness.