Today in Western Civilization class we learned about a person named Jared Diamond that was an author and a professor in UCLA.  He travels all around the world to remote places to try and figure out why some human colonies such as England and France turned out the way they did and why some are still quite primitive (No machinery, not even steam power).  I also learned that there is a place called Papua New Guinea that is home to a group of people that have been living the same way for about 40,000 years.  I also learned that they have also developed their own language.  Another thing that I have learned is that Jared Diamond is also a bird watcher, and has a much different opinion on the Papua New Guinea people then his ancestors had on the under developed group of people.

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