anthropology

The topic of this week’s discussion is one of the central questions of Guns, Germs, and Steel At the opening of the book, Jared Diamond poses "Yali’s Question." The question seems to imply that other cultures should want to be like us. Do you think that thequestion ethnocentric and does it imply a scheme of unilineal evolution? That is, does it imply that culture change is necessary and that it proceeds in only one direction? Does it imply that everyone wants to be like us? Does it imply that everyone shares the same economic motivations as we?