Remember basic concepts of "Cultural Geography" by Mark Paterson in our anthology, p. 26, where the author asserts that the Berkeley School in the 1920s was the starting point of the discipline and further states:
"The influence of the Berkeley School persists in cultural geography in the US. This movement focuses on cultural interventions in transforming the surface of the earth, and is thus most interested in material culture and space. It emerged against the prevailing background of "environmental determinism" in the early twentieth-century, where human-environment relations were specified as determined by a starightforward causality." (p. 995 of the encyclopedia entry).
The word "straightforward" is key and should make us wary of simplistic attempts to define behaviours or human types according to geographical locations. One such example is perhaps the "leadership compass" positied by some corporate preachers of leadership:
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