Examines why the long-supported thesis that different races have different capabilities and that white people are superior to colored people is not true.
Abstract Through careful analysis discussing Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel," the paper proves that race has nothing to do with a nation's level of development. The author finds that if Europe advanced to be the main power in the Middle Ages, and North America reached its current prosperity, while Africa is still considered the Third world, although homo sapiens originated there, it is all because of chance, not innate differences between races.
From the Paper "In the Prologue of his best-selling book, "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Jared Diamond states the main theme or that narration: Yali's question. As he worked in New Guinea for a while, he met many locals. One of them was Yali, who asked him a simple question: "Why is that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?" (Diamond 14). Diamond spends more than four hundred pages in a quest for an answer to that question. In recent publications, as well as in the past, many people believed that Europeans developed better societies (meaning technology, writing, and weapons), based on their innate superiority. It was believed that Europeans were more intelligent, had the Lord's support to conquer new territories and thus spread the Christian faith, and were physically stronger that the peoples of Africa, the Americas, or Australia and New Guinea. Diamond, after an elaborate research, dares to oppose all of these prejudiced statements, and prove them wrong."
