Eskimos and Snow
A residue of this idea which persists like a bad cold is that Eskimos (more properly Inuit and Yupik peoples) have large numbers of words for snow and that this is somehow indicative of a special affinity that these people have for snow.
There are a number of technical problems with this proposal.
1) What do we mean by word?
Are snow, snowy, snowier, and snowiest to be counted as different words?