http://savageminds.org/2008/06/01/around-the-web-15/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:32:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://savageminds.org/2008/06/01/around-the-web-15/comment-page-1/#comment-368932 Kate G. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:10:06 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/06/01/around-the-web-15/#comment-368932 First of all, don't these interviewees watch the Colbert Report before going on? It's so funny to watch Diamond try to seriously explain his book to the slippery Colbert. Second of all, wasn't the theory that European (or, in Diamond's terms, Eurasians [but excluding, apparently, Japanese])'superiority' was due to geography ("location, location, location") disproven decades and decades ago? I remember that theory being covered and discarded in the first week of a society and environment class back in the '70s. BTW, I'm getting so good at addition with the spam protection :-) First of all, don’t these interviewees watch the Colbert Report before going on? It’s so funny to watch Diamond try to seriously explain his book to the slippery Colbert.
Second of all, wasn’t the theory that European (or, in Diamond’s terms, Eurasians [but excluding, apparently, Japanese])’superiority’ was due to geography (“location, location, location”) disproven decades and decades ago? I remember that theory being covered and discarded in the first week of a society and environment class back in the ’70s.
BTW, I’m getting so good at addition with the spam protection :-)

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