Why Is North Italy So Different From South?
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Few countries evoke a more vivid mental image than Italy: pizza, pasta, stylish supercars, luxury fashion brands, passionate locals and iconic architecture are all emblematic of one of the world’s most famous countries.
To Italians themselves, however, the situation is much murkier. In fact, many Italians will tell you that “Italy” really refers to two very different countries that happen to share a peninsula: the North and the South. It might surprise outsiders to know that Northern independence has been a prominent force in Italian politics for decades, and that many of Italy’s most recognizable stereotypes only apply in one half of the country; for example, all Italian car companies (Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Pagani, Fiat etc) are based in the North, while mafia activity is a largely Southern affair.
Understanding this divide is crucial to understanding modern Italian society, so let’s dive into a little history of when the divide emerged, and how it manifests in different aspects of Italian society today, from food to democracy.
How it all started
Go far enough back in history, and Southern Italy is the rich half: about 2800 years ago, its central location in the Mediterranean and fertile agriculture attracted large numbers of Greek settlers. Besides establishing many cities and ports, the Greeks left a cultural legacy that remains to this day; a handful of towns in Southern Italy still speak a dialect of Greek. (It’s not uncommon to hear Northern Italians describe Southern Italians as “more Greek than Italian”; in turn, Southerners often refer to Northerners as being “basically Austrian”). Meanwhile, the North of Italy was inhabited in ancient times by a number of tribes, such as the Etruscans, the Ligures and the Veneti, as well as Celts invading from the area of modern France.
This era of (fairly violent) coexistence in the North, and of Greek control in the South, came to an end in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC as the Roman Republic overwhelmed the entire peninsula. Under Roman rule, the South would become known for vast slave plantations (latifundia) owned by aristocrats, and slave insurrections were common; the North, on the other hand, developed a more military character over time, providing vast reserves of manpower to repel raids and supply Rome’s wars of expansion at the northern borders, whereas the South was protected by the Mediterranean, with most of Rome’s more formidable overseas opponents (such as Carthage and various Greek cities) having been defeated much earlier.
In the centuries following the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, the Italian peninsula experienced a series of invaders, including the Lombards, the Franks, the Eastern Roman Empire, Islamic Caliphates and the Normans. The South was particularly exposed to these invasions due to its location in the middle of the extremely fractured Mediterranean, but all of Italy suffered in this period.
Things changed in the High Middle Ages. The South continued to be battered by invasions until the 13th century, which would begin a period of relatively stable but autocratic control under Spanish kings. The North at this time was supposedly under the control of the German-based Holy Roman Empire, but the empire’s weakness and instability would allow for the emergence and independence of several small but extremely wealthy and powerful Italian merchant republics, such as those in Venice, Pisa and Genoa, as well as important inland locations connected to the coast by canals, such as Milan and Bologna (the site of the world’s oldest still-operating university).
The coastal republics were some of the richest places in the world at this time, and controlled colonies across the Mediterranean (such as Cyprus, Malta, Sardinia, Corsica, the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece and the coast of Croatia). They fought against much larger powers like the Ottoman empire, exerting influence through diplomacy, assassination, marriage, bribery and outright military force, enabled by proto-industrial technology. The Arsenal of Venice, for example, was capable of producing a new warship every day, allowing the diminutive city-state to deploy vast armadas to protect its commercial interests.
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The description of southern Italy you make at 1:40 is absolutely false. and I'm from that area, and specifically from the thirdest poorest province of the country. It's absolutely FALSE that we don't have heating system in the houses. Also the toleits are not holes, and we dont' have animals at the entrance of the house. The south of Italy is poorer in comparison to the north, but not at this level. I don't know if you have receivde false informations or you are speaking only based on stereotypes. I would advice you to collect informations better.
and also the genetic difference between north and south is not like are you describing. The north has very little germanic DNA, and the south very little arabic DNA. Northern and southern italians are both southern european populations.
@@marcus2251 northern italians have a celtic linguistic substrate (Gallo-Italic "dialects") and according to genetic northern (but also central italians) are more similar to western and central europeans and in no case to germans or northern european group. Nobody say they are "celts" like the Irish for example. Of course the Gothic/Lombard contribution to genetic of italians in the entire peninsula was minimal. Nobody believes southern italians are "arabic" because the arab rule in sicily lasted only 2 centuries compared to the over 7 in Spain for example, but they are more "mediterranean" and levantine since millennia dating at least from the neolithic settlement of italy and before any greek colonization. Anyway this is only my opinion.
@@commenter4190 the arab influence has marked the cuisine in southern italy (Sicily) especially in sweets. The greatest influence in southern Italy has been left by the Greek culture, especially in eastern Sicily, Calabria and southern Puglia (Magna Grecia). Smaller influences had the Spanish and French in Campania and the rest of southern Italy. Some words in the Neapolitan dialect come from the Spanish or French. Like for example. Pan in our dialect "sartain" in Italian "Padella" in Spanish: sartén. The Tablecloth: in my dialect is "mesal" from the spanisch word "mesa" for table, in italian "coperta". In addition, there were other influences from all kinds of cultures. The Italians are a mix of all kinds of cultures, which is why the food culture is so rich. We have even adopted from italo-americans who came back from the Usa even an english word: take it : in molisan dialect : "tekkt" in italian " prendi".
Yep, it was very disrespectful. I live in the North and I have plenty of friends who live in the South. They all have toilets and heating just like anyone else in Italy. And the thing about "the goat in front of the house" is even more idiotic.
@@commenter4190 that is quite normal, it also has to do with the geographical location. In the south, the Greek influence is very high, especially in eastern Sicily, Calabria, southern Apulia and part of Campania. However, the south has also acquired MIgration from the north. Werstern Sicily around Trapani and Palermo, have between 5-10% Germanic ancestry (Normans). Province of Latina, Molise and the province of Benevento have had great Lombard influence, although here the population is not so high, but the percentage is higher than in northern Italy and is between 10-15%. However, the south is considered to have about 30% of Greek origins.
Even though the south is poor, they aren’t unhappy. My family is from San Roberto, and even though we fled due to the prevalence of the mafia in that area, we had everything we needed. We had our own farm that we built in the valley between mountains and in stereotypical Italian dramatist fashion, we called the farm ‘Garden of Eden’.
For foreigners, the best way to view Italy is:
North = Historic
South = Cultural
Culture and history go hand in hand, what do you mean by that? 🙂
@@Culturiosity
History as in like iconic Italian places like the Coliseum, Venice, Pisa.
Culture as in like what the stereotypical Italian is supposed to be like. Things like my Sicilian uncle talking with his hands and being very boisterous, or being extremely traditional in the sense that family and blood trumps everything else.
Thanks for sharing. If someone started a farm one would get trouble with the maffia again or not? If yes, only in calabria or also in puglia etc?
@@KC-bg1ththis Is such a big stupidity ,if you only knew how much historical Is the South. Your sicilian uncle comes from the Land of Archimede and Magna Grecia. A Land that was highly civilized and cultured when the North didnt still Have a civilization.
no, Aragon is most definitely a reason for southern italy being poorer. Aragonian kings were extracting wealth from their foreign domains in Neapel to bring it back to their core lands in eastern spain.
The Spaniards have unfortunately not brought much in Italy economically considered honestly all foreign powers also the Austrians have ruined Trentino and Veneto. Veneto and Trentino belonged under Austria Hungary to the poorest regions, currently belong to the richest regions. Veneto was also called the Sicily of the North, a very poor region.
Your overlooking France and Austria doing the same. Foreign rulers in general taking away the Italian city state’s sovereignty slowed development in the north as it was earlier in the south
@@franz9573 eh I'd say French and Austrian were more beneficial in the long run
@@rhythmicmusicswap4173 but we must also be honest, under the arabs but later also under the normans, sicily was one of the richest regions in the world. Byzantium, the Spanish and the French were poison for the south. france did nothing for italy, except perhaps geopolitically and helped drive the austrians out of northern italy, but only because they got nice and savoy in return.
According to a report from the BBC in London, a modern Italian is the sum of: Romans (these do not exceed 38%) + Germanic people, among them: Lombards, Ostrogoths, Heruli, Swabians and Normans, all accentuated and established in what is now Italy and on a smaller scale: Celts and Greeks. Separately, there is Sicily that belonged to Carthage (today Tunisia and part of Turkey) invaded by the Romans and when it dissipated it was taken by the Arabs although it was short-lived due to Ostrogothic pressures (Germanics) and in the end the Normans (Germanics) prevailed over said territory. From the above it is evident that a modern Italian is the mixture of Western Europe
"In order to be richer you just have to cook with butter" Get this man a Nobel prize
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Unfortunately most studies are done the same way. They look for similarities to make any conclusion they want.
But yeah this one is genius
From north to south we all use a bidet in Italy even the German-speaking in South Tyrol have it everywhere now. And in our house in Germany we also have a bidet, the Germans here don't use it, but for me it's a must.
It's a sign of civilization. 😤
in portugal there is usually a bidet too hmm i wonder if this is regional like portugal spain france italy its common but other countries maybe not so much
I'm from north Italy and most likely in south Italy they don't have the heater because right 17-12-22 in Palermo there are 20 degrees and second the weather in south is not tropical but Mediterranean, hot and dry in summer and warm to chill in winter
Totally get it yeah, makes sense
Excelente vídeo
Come si fa a fare una ricostruzione dell'Italia così ridicola.
è il solito americano che crede che gli italiani siano gli attori del film Il Padrino.
@@marcus2251 Credo sia Portoghese....
Da qualsiasi parte venga ha detto una valaga di cazzate. Video pessimo
Southern Italy has lost the connection with Central Europe and Northern Italy with the beginning of industrialization, before that there was hardly any emigration from the South to the New World but from the North. To attribute the economic backwardness only to cultural differences is too simple, then it would have to be one of the richest areas in the world in South Brazil, which emigrated exclusively Germans and Italians from the north. Well, it is not so simple. Italian-Americans, 85% of whom came from the South, are among the wealthiest in the U.S., ahead of British and German descendants.
Yes we all know why italians are richer in the us then the rest. One word, it starts with M
@@ThrE3-GeS Haha, If you have no valid arguments, then you come up with prejudices. But we all know that envy is the sincerest form of appreciation.
@@franz9573 you make your false imagination into a reality wich can be very dangerous. stop dreaming and pretend you know things wich you in reality know shit about!
Italy is one of the poorest country’s in the western world, we all know wich problems Italy is facing, corruption, political instability, separation movement in the north, finacial problems, no funtionally garbage disposal high unemployed rate. do you need more valid arguments? you don’t have to talk all this problems beautyfull. But how can i blame you. You are italian and your greatest strenght is to talk everything beautifull 😂🤣
The highest thing i feel for you is not envy but pity! seriously.
@@ThrE3-GeS Haha, poorest country in the western world and is a member of G7 haha. Where do you come from? I think you should keep quiet because without Italy and the Renessaince there would be no western world. So if you don't have a clue, you'd better keep quiet. Tell me which country you come from? Judging by your picture, you don't seem to have it good.
@@ThrE3-GeS and other hilarious jokes you can te yourself: dude this is not a Tarantino movie nor a 40s reality
I knew you where portuguese because of your accent. When you said obrigado though i was 100% confirmed.
Many people have tried to explain the unique history and development of Italy, but still there are no unitary theories about it.
Italy is a country that is hard to understand, that's also because it's continuously changing while remaining the same century after century.
Italy is a mix of cultures, but this is quite normal and logical, since it is located in the middle of the Mediterranean and has been influenced by many cultures.
@@franz9573 kinda, but its still incomplete.
it's very simple, until the year 1861 when italy was unified there were no significant difference between the north and the south, and financially the north where heavily in debt not the south, then there was the war and in 1861 the north win, robbing the south of all, allocating all the country resources in the north part, making the south of italy an internal colony, this happen to this day, all the public investment are done mainly in the north, creating the european country with the biggest gap in infrastructure, healthcare, education.the consequence is that entrepreneurs from the south that want to do business are forced to all move in the north or migrate in other countries. the south of italy was populated since the paleolithic era, and there were never emigration fenomen up until 1861
@@nikfr nah, the Borbouns turned the south into a wastleland with their economic and farming reforms.
Its not a case that after those reforms in 1850 the Kingdom of Two Sicilies started to rebel and fall apart.
Robbing? You don't know what it means.
And moreover since the Unification of Italy, the vast majority of Italian politicians from 1861 to present day are all coming from the South.
The only 3 distinctions are Umberto Bossi, Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi.
Strangely enough, the leaders behind a movement of pseudo-secessionism of the North against the continuous vexation of the South.
Pay to keep the South while their most notable activity is mafia is a damn madness. But we Italians did until now.
Today we are ALL Italians both from North and South.
While northerners have quit pretending secessionism, the southeners have quit supporting mafia.
Now we just have to destroy mafia for good, build metter work opportunities in South and we will finally be a damn normal country.
@@nikfr by the way... what resources? There is nothing in the South except a bit of agriculture that produce less than a single one of the northern regions. 🤔
Most develop countries have cold weather. And i don't think is a coincidence that in Spain the coldest regions are also de richest. Even in the US, Southern US is much poorer than the North East.
It's an interesting observation. I wonder why that is
Sweden, Norwegian, Canada, Switzerland, Austria basically every country that plays in the winter olympics (except Russia) are pretty rich. Much richer then their southern counterparts.
Also interestingly in pretty each country did the north conquer the south: egypt, portugal, spain, france, usa, vietnam etc… watch out for korea 😜
The Uk could be diffrent at first glance but it was the king of scotland that united both country’s in a personal union not the other way around.
Im sure there are many more country’s that could fall under this category.
That's exactly the point I was trying to make, South America, Africa, Middle East...
@@Culturiosity Though, ironically, in South America, Chile is its richest country nowadays (I know Venezuela used to be it's richest but sadly that's not the case anymore).
@otc2020 China and Japan are very cold in winter lol. Texas has oil, so it doesn't count, and is very poor with the exception of Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. Australia is the exception, however Sydney gets cold in winter.
As an FYI, when Italy was unified in 1861, the King Vittorio E, gave up his ancestral Savoyard lands to the French Emperor Napoleon III as agreed. He then had the Bourbon royal estates and treasuries in the south seized and used some of these funds to industrialize the north. Go see the Bourbon Royal Palace in Caserta. It was known as the 2nd Versaille and gives you an idea of how rich the south was just prior to the advent of Industrialization/Unification. The coming of Industrialization roughly at the same time as Italian unification and the lack of investments from the new king away from his northern holdings (Turin) is what doomed the South.
Good video! I doubt about the temperature theory and likely more related to industrial resources like coal/iron and proximity to central europe
True, honestly I feel like the blue banana is overpowered and fear that Portugal and Greece for example will never be able to truly succeed because of it for example
@@Culturiosity Portugal, Spain, Greece and all other peripherics have to play smart like Ireland.
@@bolsa3136 north of Italy is no way peripheric, it boundaries switzerland and austria and still makes italy the 2nd industrial manifacturer of europe and the 3rd exporter (not very far from france in terms of bn euro of goods exported)
@@Culturiosity also the roman empire was not created by "the italians" as a modern concept of nation, but by the Romans, whose city in the central part of the peninsula conquered all the variously different in ethnicity and language populations who inhabited the country (Celts, Etruscans, Ligurians, Umbri, Piceni, Samnites, Greeks, Carthaginians etc.) to grant later their roman citizenship as they did with all the rest of the empire including Spain, Gaul, Illyria, North Africa etc. and did not "create the Italian nation".
North of Italy includes only the "padanian plain" regions and the alpine one, which are 8: Val d'Aosta, Piemonte, Liguria, Lombardia, Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, and Emilia-Romagna.
Behind these 8 regions starts the "peninsular italy" or "central Italy": Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio, Abruzzo. These regions do not belong to "northern Italy" culturally and economically although many of them they are developed enough.
The rest is "southern Italy" (although Sardegna sometimes is considered in the centre).
North of Italy GDP per capita is almost equal to that of France and in some region also superior, and not very far from that of Germany. While the southern one is almos the same to Greece and Portugal. The "statistic" of GDP per capita are the "average" between the regions of Italy and create a number that is too low for the north and too high for the south.
@@commenter4190 Reread my comment. I did not say north Italy is peripheric, but south certainly is
2:25 picture of Bernate Ticino in province of Milano - North Italy, not south, Video full of error!
The intention was only to show a video of Italy, not a specific region
This was good. You only used stereotype a bit to much, which you did to make a point but I can understand that people from teh south don't like that (hole in the ground for toilet etc; maybe you can change that if you want or write a note about that to clarify).
To be fair i based the research on one article that might have been to hateful of the south, I apologise
@@Culturiosity ah no not to me, I don't mind. I mean in your description you could put it. Anyway up to you. I liked the video and made some good and interesting comments. Thanks!
@@Culturiosity i'm in one of the poorer part of the country and i never shitted in a hole in my whole life, and i've never seen people shitting in holes
Wrong. Northern Italy ends with Liguria and Emilia-Romagna. Further south is central Italy.
Really there is Nothing and No One in the entire World more different than a .. Neapolitan or a South Tyrolean. For better or for worse; and anyone who has visited these two very different universes understands this. Still, they live under the same banner; but there is a limit to everything ...
why the neapolitans are "similar" to other northern italians like in veneto or friuli for example? by the way, sudtirol lives mainly of TOURISM (from Italians in great part, not only german tourists) and by keeping over 90% of taxes in their territory, which of course they manage better than other regions, but not better than other italian independent regions in north italy (Val d'Aostra and Friuli)
@@commenter4190 i think you have never been to italy, every italian region, no every italian province is unique, some are so different that you think you are in another country, the thing that unites us is the history and the way of life, there are differences but they are not so significant.
At 5:47 ...The Matterhorn!!!!!
Which is for a half in Italy
You are swiss?
@@MrEugenio1994 nobody knows that. Everybody asociate it with switzerland. Also if you want to climb it you have to do it from the swiss side.
Edit: im now defending swiss interests what is wrong with me??
Southern Italians have a high middle eastern count in them too.
In their DNA?
Yeah
Go check out south Italian dna tests
Northafrican dna not middle eastern
Why are you showing pictures of Death Valley when talking about Italy. This video should be removed.
Automatic dislike for showing me reminder to ;ike and subscribe. don't do this shite.
I gotta do it bro, some people actually mean to leave a like but just forget, don’t take it personally, just ignore it in your case :(
This video is full of falsities and misreprents many realities and truths of the country. First of all, no, everything north or Rome is not "considered North", every Italian would laugh at this, both in the north, south, and CENTRAL Italy, because everything from Rome to Tuscany has always been culturally and historically Central Italian (where the Italic cultures first rose up), the line is usually drawn in Emilia-Romagna. Then you represent Southern Italy as this Wasteland, as if it was Venezuela or Bulgaria, where it's not uncommon to see houses with goats tied outside, this is not true, while it's not heavily industrialized, it's also way far from being such rural and poor place, also there are many, MANY places like what you described in the North too (just look near Bergamo or Como and such) where it's not as heavily industrialised. Then another thing you got wrong is that the North is more "Germanic", this is not true either. The North has never truly been Germanic, just received small influences, and probably as much as Southern Italy! Southern Italy was ruled by the Vandals, the Goths, the Lombards, the Normans, and more recently the Swabians, Piedmontese and the Austrians, crazy how that's always ignored in favour of a "Germanic" north. There are also lots more of incorrect details. It's hard to make these kinds of videos I get it, but we are talking about entire regions with complicated economic realities and thousands and thousands of years of history and culture, you need to research more in order to make them.
I am now aware that the article I read was mostly exaggerated sorry for any offence. I love italy 🇮🇹
@Culturiosity Don't worry, there's many Italians spouting much worse nonsense too, if that makes you feel any better! xD
Btw what I suggest in the future, is to confront or interview people from the actual places you're trying to make the video on, so that you can at least get the "major" and most important facts right. No hard feelings, you have potential 🤝
So the Arabic Golden Age, the empires that were built in tropical to sub-tropical climates like the Mayan, Olmec, Mughal, Zulu, and are inferior to their chronological, cultural, or technological contemporaries because it just so happened to be too hot where they are? By that logic, the Sami and Inuit peoples must be the most industrious in the world.
As to Northern Italy's natural resource argument, Southern Italy has just as many potential resources, especially with geothermal energy opportunities near Etna and Vesuvius.
According to Pino Aprile, "Southern" Italy was created by Piedmont and the Kingdom of Sardinia to siphon resources and riches out of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies to enrich the North and build an industry there as the global perspective of power in Europe drifted North due the the Industrial Revolution. While I would argue the claim that it was all political malice is a little extreme, it's more realistic than arguing that Northern Italy just won out in a Civ V game where they just happened to start in the perfect position with resources and temperature.
But hey, massive economic differences and increasing opportunity gaps is okay if the poorer country has better food, right?
0:20 wtf lol
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I mean Russia is pretty cold and has a shit load of resources, so the Russians should be the top dog within the global economy.
you better change jobs
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The northern Italians are from the Lombards and Ostrogoth from the Holy Fake Roman Empire. Germanic people must to be Rich.. the southern Italians are original italic people from the truly Romans! Because of this the must to stay poor! It’s one Frankish and German theory where support and the Anglo Saxons people from the medieval times the Romans (italic people) never to become rich and powerful!
Hard do believe 🤔
@@Culturiosity really? Israel became a country in 1948 and today it’s one from the healthiest Economies in the world! Only with 9 million population.. and don’t forget that all the neighbours from Israel are against them! Now tell me who give this ability and the economy in this new small country to become some much rich and powerful economy.. with the best Army in the Middle East the 👽 ? No the Americans Jews do this and the support them always why the don’t support Lebanon? Or if Dubai it’s luxury city it’s because the Saudi Arabia! Or if South Korean have so much big industry and good economy it’s because the Americans want like this! And if in Switzerland are all the money it’s because the northern Countries of Europe want like this! It’s simple!
Best cuisine? Its just pasta.
there is not only "pasta" in italian cuisine, which is regional-based and very different north and south (for example, typical pasta and pizza were from the south, and "polenta" from the north)
in Italy there are about 5,000 typical products protected at origin and protected by law. There are around 300 types of pasta, so it's not all pasta. And if we talk about cooking recipes per capita, Italy is at such high levels that in comparison the second in the ranking have 5 recipes per capita. Go spend your hate somewhere else!
Don’t forget the lovely Pizza 🍕
@@salvatoreferrarelli9596 Oh yea. Theres tomatoes too. Pasta and tomatoes.
@@jeil5676 this shows only your infinite level of ignorance & complete stereotypizing that concerns the italian cuisine in general.
I'm north Italian. But dude come on... South is not that poor. In fact Southern Italy's GDP is 3 times of Balkan countries xd
To be fair the main article I used was written in 2016 so I’m sure the situation is much better now :) Either way I absolutely love the whole of italy 🇮🇹❤️🇵🇹
@@Culturiosity yes it's true, we stopped shitting in holes in 2021 for the covid restriction, moron
True. I'm from Colombia and the colder regions of colombia are far more developed than the heat regions. And even the ethnic differences are huge acording the temperature here too, the heat regions (caribians) have fame of lazyness and suffer discriminaton cuz their darker skin by the skin pale colombians (andeans) who bragging about superiority and more hard work culture.
It has less to do with temperature and more to do with discrimination and social status. The hotter places are also where most natives and African free slaves settled. The colder regions were where the white people settled. When Colombia became its own country, there were more investments in the white region because well racism and discrimination. And so the region where more white people settled became richer and the hotter regions became poorer. Same thing in Brazil.
@@chimeremnmaozioko17in romania people seems to be pretty white, and the climate seems to be pretty cold, no?
@nikfr did you not understand my statement? I'm not saying that temperature does not have a part to play in skin colour, but that temperature has nothing to do with the work ethic of people.
@@chimeremnmaozioko17 no you didn't understand my statement, i don't agree when you say that the region where more white people settled become richer and the hotter regions became poorer, because it's not true, there are plenty of countries were the people are predominantly white and poor, you talk about african slaves, did you know that the word slave derives from the word slav? This derivation came from the fact that for centuries, the Slavic peoples were the most readily available source of slave labor for Easterners and Westerners alike, and Slavic people are the whitest people on earth.
100% agree with the statement that temperature has nothing to do with the work ethic of people.
@nikfr it seems you also didn't understand what I'm saying. I am not speaking about places like Romania or slavic countries where the population is majorly white. I'm speaking about places that are multiethnic/ multiracial. Latin America is a perfect example of this. In Brazil, in Colombia, etc, black people are on the poorer end of the spectrum, not because they live in the hotter regions, but because of funding. Most of the country's funding go to regions that are majorly white, and that's why they are generally richer. In Brazil, for example, places like rio de janeiro majorly have people of African and native ancestry. Rio is generally poor and filled with slums. South of the country, however, is different. It is majorly white and is the richer part of the country. What I'm saying is that it is like this because from the beginning, the region that was majorly white got the most government funding.
Hot regions are easier to live in. You don't have to store food, you don't have to build as strong structures, you don't have to THINK as much. So people who moved to colder climates underwent a natural selection for higher intelligence.