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Title: Good answers to "Yali's Question"
Review: The idealists among us might wonder, if one civilization is so much more advanced than another, why couldn't that advanced civilization "live and let live?" Why did the Europeans have to basically embark on a policy of extermination of the indigenous people in America, why did they have to do the same thing in Australia, and so on. The author cites other instances, for instance, the Maori of Polynesia simply wiped out or enslaved another tribe, the Moriori, who must have been the "give-peace-a-chance" hippies of the 1830s. That sort of question appears to be out of scope for Diamond, and I feel he could have at least commented on it....For my complete review of this book and for other book and moviereviews, please visit my site [...]Brian WrightCopyright 2008
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