Guns, Germs and Steel (Class Viewing)

             The video Mr. Schick just kind of threw at us yesterday is honestly so interesting to me and I truly do enjoy it. We rewatched some of the video today and paused at all of the major points made. The biggest section that I added new notes to was about the Westerners that traveled New Guinea and their awful feelings towards the New Guineans. When the Westerners (white men) appeared, they flaunted their good and treated them like religious items just to show them off. This made the New Guineans associate power with material goods but the Westerners thought power was solely based off of ones race- white= powerful, non-white= not powerful. This behavior is extremely petty and just goes to show how ignorant people can be. What's the point in showing off like this anyways? All they were doing is showing people who don't have anything and probably won't have anything that you're privileged. Honestly, this would just open one up to being robbed.