Marin Chapter 13 Question 6

I remember reading Gun's Germs and Steel for AP World and Jared Dimond came across a man for New Guiana who said "Why do you white men have so much cargo?" Dimond then went on exploring the history of what made our nations evolve to what they are today. He traced back to environment and colonizations. The part in this novel that stood out to me as interesting was when he said corruption can trace all the way back to colonization. This really made me frustrated, because I thought the quote from the Chinese graduate student pleading to know how to get rid of the corruption in China. I was frustrated because I don't think any person should have to feel that way about their life and government and as I kept reading to discover that the corruption is from the economy witch leads back to the patterns of early settlements. Something which this girl in China and other have absolutely no control over, but are forced to live through the consequences now. As I went to read on, I feel like we have the tools to bring about a healthy economy which would lead to less corruption in these nations such as education and human capital. Why can we help educate these countries now to help them create more human capital which would increase their economy, decrease the corruption, and over all help benefit the rest of the world with trade and such. Another countries economy going up only stimulates everyone else economies.