Why are Eskimos still living in those extreme climates. Why don't they come in to habitable terrains ?

Question

Why are Eskimos still living in those extreme climates. Why don't they come in to habitable terrains ?

Answer 1

It's their way of living and they keep their culture alive by living the same way their ancestor did before them.

Answer 2

It they are still living, then it is habitable.

They may stay for cultural reasons, or because they are familiar with their surroundings and have learned how best to survive there just as other people have learned to survive other places, including yourself. Also, they may enjoy their surroundings, may have learned to find beauty around them as many others have in other places. They may have religious ties to where they live, or they may have familial ties there.

I hope this sheds some light on a few possibilities as to while many continue to live where they live. ^_^

-Gabriel

Answer 3

Considering all of the c**p that happens in habitable societies would you want to move there?

Answer 4

I lived up in Fairbanks, Alaska for a while and I can tell you it's because they know no other kind of life---nor do they want to embrace the white world because most feel that we are insane.

Answer 5

It's what they know. I'm sure a great many of them enjoy their lives and a few will venture out to other countries as people do all over the world.

It's the same for any community in the world. Most people live in the same country all their lives.

Answer 6

Most of the time, a family lives in a certain area because their ancestors did. They've gotten used to the surroundings so much that they have misgivings about going elsewhere.

And well, the first answer was really funny:D

Answer 7

Obviously, they are habitable, as the Inuit live there.  And I'm sure wherever you live has some crappy weather.  I'm from Pittsburgh.  It's humid in the summer, it can snow a lot in the winter, and sometimes it floods.  People relaxing in Jamaica wonder why I don't get out of that ungodly cold.  But it's home, and I'm used to it.

Besides, the Inuit have evolved traits that make them more comfortable in the cold than people whose ancestors came from other places.

Answer 8

why are americans living in america, indians in India,Pakistanis in pakistan ans so forth. It is their homeland, chum.

Answer 9

i think there is some evidence from B.C., Canada, that in fact  some ancestral Innuit, or a related group, did at one time migrate further south. to be exterminated by more aggressive tribes?  you have to realize that there isnt a nomans land seperating them from other groups who were willing to defend their territory at any cost.  the people who entered north amerifca earliest had a clearer path south, and they took it.         hope this helps.

Answer 10

The fact is they are in a habitable area. The arctic is chock full of life and the Inuit (as they're more properly known) have adapted to life there since long before the Europeans came to North America. Like all aboriginal peoples, they are on intimate terms with their environment and in fact are physiologically suited to a cold climate.

Answer 11

Hai they are living a peaceful life in there.  Why do you want to spoil their life too my mixing with us earth beings.

Answer 12

Because they have always lived in those "Extreme" Climates.

Answer 13

The traditional stereotype of the Eskimo allows for igloos, snowshoes, hunting with spears and chewing frozen fish to survive in a desolate wasteland of ice and snow. While this is where their roots started (The word "Eskimo", after all, is an Algonquin term meaning Eaters-of-Raw-Meat"), they, as the rest of the world, have progressed.

I spent my childhood in rural Alaska. While many Inuit (meaning simply "Men", though which language or dialect I cannot be sure) live in as modern conditions as one could imagine, there are many villages across the great state that still adhere to many or most of the customs that their culture has devised through the trials, errors, and triumphs of multiple generations.

The climate, yes, can be extreme. I remember many winters where the temperature would drop to below -50F and where the wind was blowing so hard that the powerlines would come out of the ground. In even less technological areas than my hometown, I am sure that where I would not have known how to survive, the people who have been taught certain ways since birth would.

They stay for many reasons - most, I'm sure, are based around their culture - the history of their people. Their roots, blood and bones are established in some of the same areas of their kin, dating back past known record of their existence.

I suspect that they also stay because they CAN. They have not, like so many tribes in the mainland, been forced from their lands/ways of life by the development of other peoples. It is my own personal opinion that it will take more than a century for that to even become a distant concern, at least in the lives of Alaskans.

I hope this has helped...my advice to you is to not be so quick with stereotypes. Most people that experience those "extreme climates" that you speak of either never leave, or almost always go back home to the Last Frontier.