drydem wrote:
> TXZZ after asserting some racially
> negative stereotyping, TXZZ ponders:

> Diamond
> hypothesizes that europeaon whites benefited
> from their initial geographical location
> that gave them superior potential abilities
> to raise crops, raise livestock, generate
> resistance to diseases, and to assimilate
> technologies for the middle east and the
> far east. 

"for" or "from"?

I'd say "white" Europeans did a little bit more than assimilate things 
from the middle and far east.  This Diamond guy sounds like a fool.