Why should you read
The southern character??

This book deals without mincing its words or moralising with a crucial subject that many people are at pains to avoid: the innate differences between the peoples of the world. Not physical differences but the far more important character differences. It distinguishes between the southern and northern peoples of the world and constructs two opposing stereotypes. The reasoning is therefore approximate. However, since no one nowadays dares reflect on these issues, any reflection, even approximate, on character differences brings to light important and easily verifiable new elements, which provide answers to unresolved but highly pertinent questions.

Why are democracies found in the North and so many authoritarian regimes in the South? Why is inflation common in southern countries? Same question for corruption. Are we really headed towards the sunlit uplands where all the world's peoples adopt shared values of equality, freedom and democracy, or are these values not universal but rather confined to the "North"?

Light is shed on the plain and simple reasons for Italy's economic decline, namely the alignment of a predominantly northern production system with an increasingly southern regulatory framework.

The most striking aspect of this analysis is that it does not rely on complex reasoning to construct the two stereotypes, but rather on the compellingly simple logic of natural selection. Over thousands or tens of thousands of years this has generated innate differences between the individualistic disposition of northern peoples ready to engage with Nature in their cold and harsh living conditions, and the more sociable southerners ready to interact with much more densely populated communities.