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Why the World Is Separated into Haves and Have Nots and How It Is?

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"Why you white men have so much cargo and we so little?" A New Guiney man asked Jared Diamond this question for 30 years ago and trying to answer this question. He finally has concluded that the reason for the haves and the have nots of the world is all simply geographic luck. I agree to a certain extent. Geography plays a lot into why some peoples are rich and others poor. Our resources, and how we adapt to the environment affect us to the point of almost defining who we are but I don't believe that human nature and how we think was could be formed by any surroundings. It couldn't be just luck or fate that made us who we are.

When the New Guiney man spoke of cargo he was meaning possessions or riches. I have found that the wealth of the land is reflected in the wealth of the people. One of the main reasons that Europeans controlled almost the whole world at a point was because their resources proved to be better. They had access to wheat, coal, useful livestock, and steel. When they when up against the Americas and Africa it was obvious that the natives did not stand a chance against the European because of the gap in resources. The wheat could easily be grown, preserved, and it was full of nutrition. Because the people of Europe were pumping out enough food for all and then some it left people time to further themselves in technology, sociology, and the sciences. This is why so many philosophers and scientists found the firsts for everything, like for instance Sir Isaac Newton, Plato, or Galileo. All of them were able to sit and ponder because someone else had grown enough food for themselves and the rest of Europe. While in other countries people use all of their energy just to feed themselves so they can't ponder anything short of where their next mean is coming from.

Necessity controls our everything. Necessity is based on perspective and what you need though so what you believe necessary to live others do not. For example: The Aztecs. The Aztecs, before the Spanish were the panicle of their lands because they were only focused on being better than those around them. When the Spanish came their weaponry was not even comparable to theirs because necessity had only called for them to fight bows, and spears. This says that environment affects necessity because the Aztecs environment they only needed to be better than in the same environment. The same with the diseases the Spanish brought. The Aztec's bodies had adapted themselves to battle germs that had already been in their environment for centuries so when the Spanish arrived they didn't know how to fight these foreign viruses and thus where defenseless.

I believe that when god put the first man and woman on earth they already had their nature; their way of thinking. I think that ways of thinking have changed over the years but it has only been changed by society and religion. Our ancestors

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