Continents Trading compare (The United State and Taiwan) - Essay Example

Technology has enabled people living in US to be able to access products that are manufactured in different countries. To get a product in a foreign country, a person will only check the relevant website selling the product, see the price and purchase through online banking. The product will be delivered to the place of resident through different means such as air mail or shipping. After reading Jared Diamond’s statement, the “Cargo hypothesis”, I came to understand what is meant by the geography and the development of one country.

In his statement, he gave an example about why European countries develop better than many other countries, and according to his understanding it is as a result of geographical location. At first, I dint agree with her statement that development rate differs because of geographical location. At first, I thought the geographical position of all the European countries is not different from countries such as the American and Asian. European countries are rich and they have capability of investing in different fields in order to improve on their technology: for instant, Chinese government always try to improve the country economy by all means.

Some people think that the country is poor but according to my own opinion they are not poor, it is only that they do not understand how to increase the country economic and life style level. This reminds me of the statement that Diamond gave concerning understanding and knowledge. He argued that knowledge is very important since it help a country develop: the more people to get educated, the more development in that country. In many Western countries such as England, France, and U.S., people can easily access education unlike in countries like China.

This is a big issue which has caused different rate of the development in different regions. In this project, I will be focusing on Asian continent, Taiwan, which is a well-developed