![]() ![]() ![]() However, Diamond argues, this view doesn't hold up to examination, and part of the point of his book will be to disprove that view. For a long time, the Europeans and those from advanced industrial nations believed that the reason why some nations were less developed was that some peoples were naturally inferior to others. Diamond makes a point of insisting that he doesn’t believe that one society is better than any other, and that he will try to remain impartial in his analysis. Yali asks Diamond why some societies flourished more than the others-this is the question Diamond will try to answer in the book. Diamond mentions Yali, a New Guinean politician interested in the history of his country and the colonization of New Guinea. The book begins with a preface in which Diamond claims that the main purpose of his text is to explain why different countries developed in different manners. ![]()
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