You just have to believe that you can do it

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"Even though Papua New Guinea is located in the same region as Australia and New Zealand, why is it that Australia and New Zealand became technologically advanced and wealthy?"

This question runs through my mind when I think about wealth. Fortunately, I recently watched a "movie" on Gun, Germs and Steel. The "movie" explains how the people in the pass lived. And they also show that if you look around the world, you can find that only one place called New Guinea, does not have technology. They live in the forest and build shelter from tree trunks just like the Homo Sapiens Sapiens (Early Humans).

What I think is that Australia and New Zealand used what they learned from the Neolithic Age people how to build houses out of brick and concrete. With their imagination combined, they could build lots of different types of buildings and structures. And that made Australia and New Zealand wealthier than New Guinea because New Guinea didn't combine their ideas to make buildings and structures. But everything that they did is the exact same thing of what the Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Age did. Such as farming.

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One thing that what New Guinea is different from Australia and New Zealand is that they farm food instead of buying random raw food from the supermarket and eat it for one of your meals. New Guinea farm wheat, barley and rice to get all the nutrition that they need and sometimes, they will hunt animals for their meat. While in Australia and New Zealand, they could buy food from the supermarket and cook the bought raw food to eat for lunch or dinner under the cooling air conditioner. The last one that is different between the two groups(New Guinea vs. Australia and New Zealand) is technology.

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Technology is all around you. You can find technology every step you take. But in New Guinea, every step you take, you see trees. No technology at all. Not even a spark of electricity is found in New Guinea. All day long, they work and rest, work and rest. While here, we type, play, watch, read, write, learn, eat and many more. Just because of technology, we are actually enjoying our life by doing all sorts of things with technology like for example, we use the computer to do homework or go on Facebook. The answer to my question has actually now revealed.

Don't forget! The question was "Even though Papua New Guinea is located in the same region as Australia and New Zealand, why is it that Australia and New Zealand became technologically advanced and wealthy?" can you answer it? This is the answer that I want to tell the people of New Guinea. "Don't be jealous of what other country have because you are the unique country that nobody have and that unique thing is that with what you are doing right now, at this moment, you remind us that we once lived in the forest and hunt for food, build shelter and make spears for living. You even remind us how much we've grown. If you try, you can make it to be a wealthy country or even much more wealthier than Europe! So, don't be jealous of what other people have. You just have to believe that you can do it. Only then you can achieve the goal that you want."

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