What is My Climate?

I am usually warm (especially in the spring through fall). I don't get cold that easily. I wonder if one's body comfort level is an indicator of their culture type. Many of my friends who are always warm tend to be always running on the warm side where as those I know who are often cold tend to be from a colder culture.

What do I mean be a cold and warm culture? Well, there is a sweet little book sitting over at the Daudt's that explains it very well, but I will try to summarize because I realize that many of us do not have a lot of time to read everything.

A warm culture tends to focus more on relationship building than scheduling. These are the cultures where you tell someone the time they should leave their house not when you want them to arrive. These are the cultures where sitting on one's porch and talking to everyone you see is a common occurance. Mexico, Egypt, Mali, and Columbia tend to be warm cultures. The Southeast and Southwest tend to be more warm cultured.

A cold culture focuses more on time and scheduling than relationships. The focus is more self-centered on personal advancement and success. Others are often only considered for their possibility for further personal achievement. These are the one's who have a schedule, stick to it no matter what, and bull doze those in their way to achieve their goals. Germany, Japan, Canada, and Finland. The Northeast, East Coast, and West Coast tend to be cold cultures.

I am warm cultured with hints of the cold in me. I grew up mostly in the warm culture of Egypt with a focus on family and relationships but my mother was especially from a cold culture. My father was kind of half and half. So, if I had grown up in the United States I would probably have been 75% cold culture but I grew up in Egypt so I am 75% or more warm culture. I love learning about people and developing deeper relationships but I do like a little structure and time. I like there to be a time set that I choose to break rather than no time at all. That is the cold culture in me. But I am mostly warm and tend to value the relationship above the time that it takes to develop.

"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote."--Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Introduction