Comments on: Why white people dominate (part 3) http://blog.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/2009/02/10/why-white-people-dominate-part-3/ Ideas, thoughts and ramblings from the Unichurch staff Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:36:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Entwistle http://blog.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/2009/02/10/why-white-people-dominate-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-92 David Entwistle Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:56:22 +0000 http://www.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/blog/?p=194#comment-92 Dave - yeah, there are lots of factors that affect whether a group will develop farming (like available species, climate, soil, etc.), and availability of wild food is definitely one of them. On rare occasions there will even be enough food that the group will be able to settle in a village before developing farming. So farming in tropical areas developed either very late, or never. I'm not sure about the idea of capitalism in harsher climates. I think that once you develop a society (with food production, buildings, leaders, etc.) you will also need to start trading. So capitalism is another development in the chain. Communism could work in a small group - it seems that small bands of hunter-gatherers didn't have formal leadership structures - although they would have had to have some kind of leader. Need to think about it more. Jon - 'irony' makes it sound like I know what I'm doing! Dave – yeah, there are lots of factors that affect whether a group will develop farming (like available species, climate, soil, etc.), and availability of wild food is definitely one of them. On rare occasions there will even be enough food that the group will be able to settle in a village before developing farming. So farming in tropical areas developed either very late, or never.

I’m not sure about the idea of capitalism in harsher climates. I think that once you develop a society (with food production, buildings, leaders, etc.) you will also need to start trading. So capitalism is another development in the chain. Communism could work in a small group – it seems that small bands of hunter-gatherers didn’t have formal leadership structures – although they would have had to have some kind of leader. Need to think about it more.

Jon – ‘irony’ makes it sound like I know what I’m doing!

]]> By: Jon Rumble http://blog.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/2009/02/10/why-white-people-dominate-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Jon Rumble Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:43:16 +0000 http://www.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/blog/?p=194#comment-91 Dave, am I beginning to sense irony in your title? Dave, am I beginning to sense irony in your title?

]]> By: Dave Elsing http://blog.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/2009/02/10/why-white-people-dominate-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Dave Elsing Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:39:12 +0000 http://www.stmatthewsunichurch.org.au/blog/?p=194#comment-90 Hey Dave, Does he say anything about people in tropical climates not needing to cultivate farming becuase of the abundance of food in the rain forests? Why bother planting wheat if you can chill in the warmth and eat mangoes in the shade brother - amen? This would account for them being less developed (in technology, not genetics) peoples as they did/do not need to invent. capitalism is required in harsher climates - what u reckon?. Maybe communism would have faired better if it grew out of the tropics, rather than implanted there like a feral introduced species? Hey Dave,

Does he say anything about people in tropical climates not needing to cultivate farming becuase of the abundance of food in the rain forests? Why bother planting wheat if you can chill in the warmth and eat mangoes in the shade brother – amen? This would account for them being less developed (in technology, not genetics) peoples as they did/do not need to invent.

capitalism is required in harsher climates – what u reckon?. Maybe communism would have faired better if it grew out of the tropics, rather than implanted there like a feral introduced species?

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