Do you feel more comfortable in your own climate?

[Anja]

early spring as it is now is very nice...about 75 deg F, with a nice strong breeze and sun...i wish it was like this for more that two weeks a year, it heats up real quick, and the humidity is death sometimes...

[IfTheLightTakesUs]

Guys, you HAVE to mention your race/ethnicity etc. when you post, otherwise the thread is worthless!
Common sense people!

santana said:

actually for me.. I LITERALLY get physically sick when i am not in the heat.. i am arab so i am used to like 50 degrees of sun.. when i recently moved to a winter climate.. my hands get ill.. because my body is so used to vitamin D from the sun that they turn BLUE when they dont receive vitamin D from teh sun.. because i am in the snow now.. my hands are always blue and burnt.. i physically NEED the sun hahahahha... you can take the arab out of the desert.. but not the desert out of the arab

Wow, that is crazy. When it snows here my body turns to crap, my lips and face peel, but my hands don't actually turn blue, that is insane. I drink alot of milk with vitamin D, maybe that's why.

Anyway, that last sentence is the main idea of this thread. I do completley agree, you can take a *race* out of the *race's climate* but you can't take the *said climate* out of the *said race*

[Solomon]

Alexandrian said:

I like dry, moderate heat (70-80) with a nice breeze periodically. I don't know if it has anything to do with my ancestors.

That's my favorite kind of climate. Dry, arid desert heat is good. I hate extreme cold. Unfortunately for me, I live in Ohio where the temperature often goes below 0 (fahrenheit) during the winter. The summers here are unbearably humid. It sucks.

I'm Jewish and German.

[Faelcind]

The climate I grew up in(Pacific northwest) is almost identical to that the majority of my ancestor experienced(the british isles). I hated living in california(outside of midwinter) it was way to hot. I get uncomfortable at tempetures above 85 degree's thats really hot to me. I am ready to go swimming at 70 and sunny. Spring and autumn are my favorite season I like mildy windy days mostly sunny days. Like Late spring or early fall in Ireland.

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[Josh]

Solomon said:

That's my favorite kind of climate. Dry, arid desert heat is good. I hate extreme cold. Unfortunately for me, I live in Ohio where the temperature often goes below 0 (fahrenheit) during the winter. The summers here are unbearably humid. It sucks.

I'm Jewish and German.

It sounds like you got your climate preference genes from your Hebrew ancestors.

[Solomon]

That's what I think. I lived in Las Vegas when I was 16, it got so hot in the summer that even the breeze was warm (imagine blowing a hair dyrer on your face). But the end of the summer (late August to mid-September) there is perfect, the temperature cools down to around 85.

[jojoscircus]

Solomon said:

That's my favorite kind of climate. Dry, arid desert heat is good. I hate extreme cold. Unfortunately for me, I live in Ohio where the temperature often goes below 0 (fahrenheit) during the winter. The summers here are unbearably humid. It sucks.

I'm Jewish and German.

Is your skin adapted to an arid climate? Even though I don't think I am totally adapted to a desert climate my skin is (a trait from my Jewish mother). When it is too humid out my skin is oily and breaks out, but in a dry climate it gets very smooth and the oil seems to moisturize it naturally.

[Solomon]

jojoscircus said:

Is your skin adapted to an arid climate? Even though I don't think I am totally adapted to a desert climate my skin is (a trait from my Jewish mother). When it is too humid out my skin is oily and breaks out, but in a dry climate it gets very smooth and the oil seems to moisturize it naturally.

Yeah, I have oily skin as well. Most of the Jews I know (the Jewish-looking ones) have oily skin and hair. It's a common Mediterranean trait.

[Josh]

Solomon said:

Most of the Jews I know (the Jewish-looking ones) have oily skin and hair.

What about the pale Ashkenazi types (think Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, etc.)?

[jojoscircus]

Josh said:

What about the pale Ashkenazi types (think Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, etc.)?

I specifically remember seeing an interview with barbara streisand a while back where the interviewer was praising her youthful appearance. She said that her skin was the type that gets pimples, but doesn't get wrinkles and that is why she was aging so well.

I know that natural oil on skin acts as a protectant from wind and sun so it makes sense that it would be more abundant on desert peoples.

[murphee]

My hair is very dry and I have to use oily moisturizing conditioners on it. I like being cold and hate the heat and sun. I am a Jew.

[jojoscircus]

murphee said:

My hair is very dry and I have to use oily moisturizing conditioners on it. I like being cold and hate the heat and sun. I am a Jew.

Well, there goes my theory . I guess there are lots of exceptions. One of my old friends who is as Nordic as it gets (Polish/German) has the most oily skin.

[murphee]

The theory might still hold, though...my phenotype looks North Central European...blonde, blue eyes, a person who people never guess as Jewish.

[Solomon]

My guess is oily skin is less common in lighter Ashkenazim. When I said Jewish-looking, I meant dark too.

Here's a good example of what I'm talking about:

[Faelcind]

I have some really weird climatologically related physical attributes. My skin is fair not noticiable out of place among irish people but if you look closely I have an olive tinge, I can tan but I do incredibely slowly, I played basketball ever day for hours at a time in Santa cruz for six months in the sun and never got a real tan, but I almost never burn.

I normally have low body temperature normally 96.8, but genereall feel hot sometimes during the winter it will be 30 farenheight and I will feel almost feverishly hot to the point I have to strip down and open the windows it drives my fiancee crazy. When I was a baby I refused to were clothes even during the winter and use to walk around bare foot in the snow you could track me by the melted footprints.

The weird thing though is that my body will go from producing huge quantities of heat like that to being quite sensitive to cold.
I would perfer my older brothers adaption he is half mexican and doesn't appear to have any reaction to temperature he has told me he never feels cold essentially no matter what the temperture unless you dunk him in cold water and throw him in the snow, and nothing short of a 105 degree's is sufficient to make him uncomfortabley hot.