When cold weather keeps people indoors and in close contact with one another, the culture value system reflects the lack of smooth social and familial interaction. In her study of the Utku Eskimos the anthropologist Jean Briggs observed that utku adults discourage their offspring from emotional expression of any kind crying, screming even convulsive giggling Utku children are expected, thus, to control their emotions. Discipline takes the form of silence, laughter or threats of supernatural forces rather than physical punishment. on the other hand, the Nyansongo Gusii who live in the warm climate of Kenya and spend most of their time out-of-doors, do not discourage emotional displays Unlike the Utku, the Gusii perfer the cane as a punishment for their children.