Expletive Deleted Jared Diamond Summary

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In the article, [Expletive Deleted] Jared Diamond, Corriea’s review wasn’t the best review. He shows a different viewpoint on mankind, and I take Diamond’s side. Let’s start off with Corriea’s review. Corriea doesn’t really like the book because, “At worst, it develops an argument about human inequality based on a determinist logic that reduces social relations such as poverty, state violence, and persistent social domination, to inexorable outcomes of geography and environment” (1). Corriea believes that the points Jared Diamond make just cause a bigger argument and doesn’t really focus on other issues except human inequality. He also mentioned in the article that he viewed a lot of racism while reading the book and for me personally, I can …show more content…

Further into the article, he starts talking about the climate and collapse of past civilizations, “Collapse and climate may indeed be linked, but these efforts, as with Diamond, ignore patterns of social response to climate change and how these political and social struggles over resources produced uneven patterns of development and inequality” (4). He starts talking about climate of course but then backlashes at “Guns, Germs, and Steel” again because they ignored this point. Correia obviously has a different point of view from Jared Diamond and sees things from a different perspective, but then again Jared Diamond does avoid some topics in the book. He always goes back to talking about civilization and more importantly he brings up a lot of geography. Let us go back to beginning now where he opens up this article with talking about how Jared Diamond doesn’t have any supporting points, “At best it is just silly, as when he offers unsupported, and unsupportable, assertions such as his get-off-my-lawn grouse that children today are not as smart as in the recent past and television is to blame” (1). Right off the bat, Corriea disses Jared Diamond for his invalid and unreasoning points in his book and how he just assumes

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