Posted on 02/04/2009 9:03:33 AM PST by BGHater
In Japan, "What's your type?" is much more than small talk; it can be a paramount question in everything from matchmaking to getting a job.
By type, the Japanese mean blood type, and no amount of scientific debunking can kill a widely held notion that blood tells all.
In the year just ended, four of Japan's top 10 best-sellers were about how blood type determines personality, according to Japan's largest book distributor, Tohan Co. The books' publisher, Bungeisha, says the series one each for types B, O, A, and AB has combined sales of well over 5 million copies.
Taku Kabeya, chief editor at Bungeisha, thinks the appeal comes from having one's self-image confirmed; readers discover the definition of their blood type and "It's like 'Yes, that's me!'"
As defined by the books, type As are sensitive perfectionists but overanxious; Type Bs are cheerful but eccentric and selfish; Os are curious, generous but stubborn; and ABs are arty but mysterious and unpredictable.
All that may sound like a horoscope, but the public doesn't seem to care.
Even Prime Minister Taro Aso seems to consider it important enough to reveal in his official profile on the Web. He's an A. His rival, opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa, is a B.
Nowadays blood type features in a Nintendo DS game and on "lucky bags" of women's accessories tailored to blood type and sold at Tokyo's Printemps department store. A TV network is set to broadcast a comedy about women seeking husbands according to blood type.
It doesn't stop there.
Matchmaking agencies provide blood-type compatibility tests, and some companies make decisions about assignments based on employees' blood types.
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O+, O+, come and get yer fresh brewed O+!
I remember reading years ago that US Presidents have been disproportionally type O. FWIW.
Given the geographic distribution of blood types on the page referenced in post #14, it may not actually be disproportional based on the distribution of the O type in the U.S. population.
I am sooooo cheerful and eccentric.
Eat Right for Your Type
by Peter J. D'Adamo
contributions by Catherine Whitney
Me either. I know my DNA though.
I agree. I always have a smile on my face. :>)
The fact that DNA is transmitted through the NADs proves — ta-dah! — that dyslexia is hereditary.
Ah, you're just playing tricks with the arrangement of letters AND things of that sort. I will report this to the DAN society for sure.
I wonder if I’ve stumbled onto the secret reason that engineered crops are being developed by Archer Daniels Nidland.
Oh wait...
Hee, hee.
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