When I first listened to the story of Stone money and the people of Yap, I automatically thought it was fake and made up. I actually opened up a search bar on my computer and looked up Yap and Micronesia to see if it was real because I honestly could not even take it serious. When I searched it and something actually came up, I knew it was real. I continued listening to the story and could not grasp the concept of money that these people were living by. They had gigantic pieces of stone and that is what they used to purchase things. It’s is interesting how different that is from the United States. I act like it is insane that they have stone for money, but at the same time we have a piece of paper that is supposed to have all this worth.

I really used to think that money controlled the world we live in. I had a teacher my sophomore year of high school that had a funny saying that I never forgot. He was my history teacher and he was always say C.R.E.A.M which stood for cash rules everything around me. This little phrase is something I always remembered from his class because he said it so much. This contributed to me thinking that money was so powerful.

The broadcast really portrays money to be fiction which I thought was very interesting. The value of money is different all around the world so reading about how other countries deal with money and the type of currency they use is always worth reading. It shows that even though we believe all countries want to be like the United States, they have their own sense of individuality.