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First weвЂ™ll close all the windows, even though weвЂ™re all packed in like sardines and thus more than warm enough thanks to our collective body heat and excessive clothing. Our strange national obsession with the cold can be fully summed up in the microcosm of a bus ride in winter. And so we continue putting on layer upon layer of clothing and popping antibiotics like theyвЂ™re tic tacs as we get sicker and sicker all the time because our immune system is kept weak from over-protection and pampering. WeвЂ™re taught from a very young age that instead of learning to strengthen and inure ourselves to unpleasant things by facing them and thereby developing immunity to them, we should always avoid those things instead. Right from the earliest years Turkish kids are actively вЂprotectedвЂ™ from the cold, as if it were a dangerous menace that must be averted at all costs. (1)ДЄnother reason we fear the cold is because of ridiculous old wivesвЂ™ tales we learn from our mothers. We are all too fond of indolence, and anything that stiffens the body, stimulates the system and gets the heart going is considered an annoying and unwelcome nuisance вЂ“ and the cold is the greatest nuisance of all to our sense of keyif. If someone is working on something we say вЂkolay gelsinвЂ™ (may it be easy). The fewer obstacles there are, the better for us.

Contrary to Europeans or Americans, who generally have cultures in which hardship and overcoming obstacles are welcomed and even sought after, we have a culture in which all things soft and easy are relished instead.

So what is the origin of our irrational obsession?ДЇirst of all, thereвЂ™s our love of all things easy, our love of keyif (roughly translatable as 'a pleasurable state of idle relaxation').

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We shun cold drinks believing theyвЂ™ll make us ill, we shy from open windows thinking air drafts will send us to our doom, we loathe cold water in a shower or at the beach, we believe going outdoors with wet hair will cripple our constitution, we crank the heat up in our offices and homes and gaze with horror at those who dare venture outside unless stuffed into five layers of clothing. We Turks are a chronically cryophobic nation.