Papuanewguinea video

Today in class we watched a video off of youtube called "Guns,Germs,and Steel."  This video is about a guy named Jared Diamond, he is a biologist and a teacher at UCLA.  Though his favorite thing to do is to study birds.  He goes to this remote island called Papuanewguinea, where he then stays with the people there and experiences their culture.  The people there are very different from the modern day people of the United States.  In Papuanewguinea the people have no technology, no radio, no actual homes, no food that they don't have to work for.  They basically don't have anything.  But they still live a good life in their standards.
The way they live is almost like a hunter/gatherer, they don't have much cargo which means in their terms (supplies) and they don't have great clothes or any real homes.  But they still live productive and good lives.
Though the white men that have been there and visited and have seen their lifestyle think they are a waste and aren't as important in our culture, Jared Diamond disagrees.  He believes that they have very unique abilities that are different then the white men have, they still have unique and productive abilities, such as, they can make a shelter out of trees and branches, they can climb trees, they can kill game very well, and they can survive where most of our world can not survive.  He says that if he were in the climate that they live in, he wouldn't be able to survive without them.
What this video has gotten at so far is that the people on Papuanewguinea live much simpler but harder lives than us, and that everything in our history has come together and formed the people that we are today off of three things; guns,germs,and steel.
It was neat to learn a little bit about these people because first off I didn't even know people in this day of age could survive like they do, and that people like them even exist still.  It was a cool thing to watch and I can't wait to watch the rest of the video on Monday (assuming we don't have off).  which hopefully we do!!!