How climate affects our psychology

This concept had been bothering my mind for the past couple of months, but I couldn’t spare myself enough time and patience to write it down somewhere. This is a personal theory upon how our local environments can play a major role in affecting our racial characteristics in the long term.

Basically, I believe there is a connection between the climate we are born in and how our bodies have been adapted to optimize our lifestyles in that region. Say, for example, people living near the colder Arctic latitudes (in Europe or North America) are more gentle, chill and smarter than those near the equator (in Africa or South Asia). This is not a case of racism. This is a case of genetics and long term adaptations! Naturally, the bodies of people living in cooler climates need more heat - which they get via additional blood circulation throughout their bodies, especially their brains. This results in enhanced mental capabilities for that demographic. The coolness of the weather also helps them remain more relaxed with their lives than the warmer climate counterparts.

On the other hand, people in hot weather tend to be more easy-to-anger, impatient, lazier, etc. This can be explained by the preset temperature being already so high, for which any sort of muscle movement or labour would bring forth more heat; to prevent our bodies from overheating, our brains have been pre-configured to have a lower performance and our bodies try to move less frequently - taking as many steps as possible to reduce heat generating within our body.

If you would like to see this effect in action, just try being “generous” (by doing some task worthy of displaying kindness or otherwise) in a cold country (e.g. Canada) and then in a warm country (e.g. Bangladesh) and you’ll be able to understand the differences.

Although this theory would need actual scientific (statistical) evidence, for the moment it is logical enough to draw the aforementioned conclusions.