I have always thought about the North Pole as a solitary region with the

hardest weather conditions and imagined how must be to live as an Eskimo

building igloos as a refuge to drink a tea. After having met an anthropologist
who was in Greenland getting along with their inhabitants, all my
preconceptions disappeared. He, who has always been a lover of the Inuits,
the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, explains me the things that also have
shocked him since his cohabitation with them. The word Eskimo for
instance have the pejorative meaning of eater of raw meat and they
would like to be called as inuits rather than the other most known name. But
the facts that have impressed him the most are two. First of all, despite they
have electrical appliances, they left their homes and turned into hunters and
fishermen. Secondly, they resolve their conflicts, except murder, by
improvising songs or poems. I try to imagine how it will be live in their
society with their traditions and I think it wont be easy at all being a city
dweller as I am. But I admire their ability to adapt themselves to the
environment and their sense of belonging to a community with a culture
deeply rooted in the Nature.