Japanese Blood/Personality Type

[Methofelis]

I searched the threads and didn't find anything on this, so I figured I'd throw it out there.

Has anyone looked into the Japanese idea of typing people by their blood? Mine was a decent enough generalization of me, I suppose (I'm AB - ) but I wanted to see if it did anything for anyone here. It is considered nonsense by most. I'm not basing anything on it, I just found it interesting and amusing.

Here are some external links on the matter aside from a brief explanation:
From Wiki...
"The blood type theory of personality is a popular belief in Japan that a person's ABO blood type or ketsueki-gata (血液型, ketsueki-gata?) is predictive of their personality, temperament, and compatibility with others, similar to the Western world's astrology. This belief has carried over to some extent in other parts of East Asia such as South Korea and Taiwan. This theory is completely dismissed by many scientists as superstition or pseudoscience[1]."

Japanese Blood Type Personality Chart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_blood_type_theory_of_personality)

Article (http://www.proastro.com/?o=general&act=funarticle_2&name=traits_by_blood_type)

[Oso Mocoso]

I've checked it out. According to Japanese blood type mythology I'm a warrior type. O-

I think it's complete hogwash.

I'm a thinker, not a fighter.

--Oso

[Wolf]

Based on the common types, it's total hogwash.

[Methofelis]

I know it is crap.
I just love the fact that it can be quite popular in Japan as a tool... basically, instead of a question-based personality test, you must be this because you are this. I believe hogwash is the best word here...

[Jennywocky]

Just as mention of a similar Asian/blood topic, when we were in China, certain meats (such as dog meat, monkey meat, snake meat, etc.) were typed either "hot blood" or "cold blood" and supposedly had different effects on one's health, depending on the time of year they were consumed. Some meats were actually considered UNHEALTHY, if one was sick and the time of year was wrong.

[MacGuffin]

Check out these two threads:

INTP and blood type? (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=3285)
INTP blood type revised (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=3298)

Ah watch, I wonder if he proved God yet.

[Jennywocky]

Ah watch, I wonder if he proved God yet.

Or figured out what God's blood type would be.

[Methofelis]

Check out these two threads:

INTP and blood type? (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=3285)
INTP blood type revised (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=3298)

Ah watch, I wonder if he proved God yet.

Wow. Nice. Apparently, since I'm AB-, I am not an INTP! I must be an INFP after all. Uh...

What a cute little crackpot.

Amazing.


Or figured out what God's blood type would be.

Funny enough, according to some ... oddballs... O- is the 'perfect' pure blood, bringing people closer to God and the first people he created. AB + is considered the least pure and furtherest from God.

[Jennywocky]

Funny enough, according to some ... oddballs... O- is the 'perfect' pure blood, bringing people closer to God and the first people he created. AB + is considered the least pure and furtherest from God.

So if I drink enough O- blood, I can be close to God?

(VAMPIRES UNITE!)


Wow. Nice. Apparently, since I'm AB-, I am not an INTP! I must be an INFP after all. Uh...

If you're not an F, then get that cuddly furry happy little kitty out of your avatar!

[Methofelis]

So if I drink enough O- blood, I can be close to God?

(VAMPIRES UNITE!)



If you're not an F, then get that cuddly furry happy little kitty out of your avatar!

I've always wanted to suck the personality out of someone.

Happy now? Vile zombie women cuddling rats. Hell, I don't care if you are happy -- that is an F thing. Bugger off! :)

[ataronchronon]

I think this idea stems from the belief in "noble blood" and such. I can't believe they would take it so literally. Of course, you know some japanese culture sycophant is gonna blow this way out of proportion and treat it as gospel.

[Methofelis]

I was amazed at all the various odd theories behind blood types I found online. It speaks of how the Rh - people are closer to the aliens of Egypt, the bloodlines of the British royals being lizard-like.. all sorts of nut case conspiracy theory ramble.

It's amazing what people will base off of a blood/personality type system. Or any typing system for that matter...

[Pooja]

I feel like i've posted this before... but maybe i just thought about it...

anyway, it's all about evolution due to environmental and dietary factors. Type O was the first to evolve, and thus, is the "hunter-gatherer" archetype. They have low dairy tolerences, b/c our earliest ancestors didn't digest dairy properly. Personality wise, "O"s are typed as aggressive. Aggressive like cavemen, perhaps..?

I could go on about each of the other types; how/why they evolved... but i'm feeling too lazy. Maybe i can attribute that to being of the "AB" tribe.

[Methofelis]

I'm AB too. It must be true.

... I did not intend to rhyme.

My boyfriend is O+ and a Leo... supposedly aggressive go-getter types. He's a laid back teddy bear INTP who is not known for his in-your-face attitude. It doesn't exist.

I'm sure that with this, as with anything, there will always be people who fit the bill for their temperament typing system... by manner of simple probability.

[rubixcube]

I would think the blood type has no relation to brain/personality. The part of the DNA that creates blood cells is different from the part that creates the brain.

Asking someone for their blood type to predict their personality or character is like asking someone for their astrological sign...

[Methofelis]

Of course, yet people base so much off of astrological signs as well. So I'm an Aquarius. Apparently that makes me some weird hippie. I'll pass.

Sometimes people will go too far out of the bounds of psychological/biological/scientific reality in order to 'find' themselves. I'd much rather stick with what makes logical sense.

[Pooja]

I'm AB too. It must be true.

... I did not intend to rhyme.

My boyfriend is O+ and a Leo... supposedly aggressive go-getter types. He's a laid back teddy bear INTP who is not known for his in-your-face attitude. It doesn't exist.

I'm sure that with this, as with anything, there will always be people who fit the bill for their temperament typing system... by manner of simple probability.

wow... I'm also an "AB" INTP with a laid-back INTP type O+ boyfriend

[Methofelis]

wow... I'm also an "AB" INTP with a laid-back INTP type O+ boyfriend

... That's odd.

We're going to create a super-race.

[Pooja]

... That's odd.

We're going to create a super-race.

oh yeah, and he's also a Leo!

[Methofelis]

.. Are you an Aquarius? If so, we're all facing the end of days.

And if he's a white boy and you're a brown girl, I think we'd have a case for cloning laws. Mine is pale as a ghost and I was born toasty.

[rawr]

I'm an O, and a killer.

[Pooja]

.. Are you an Aquarius? If so, we're all facing the end of days.

And if he's a white boy and you're a brown girl, I think we'd have a case for cloning laws. Mine is pale as a ghost and I was born toasty.

I'm a cancer, but the majority of my "planets" are in aquarius. And yeah, I'm toasty (though pale by indian standards), and he's pale by everybody's standards ;)
Sorry for going so off topic

[Wolf]

I'm amazed at the number of ABs to show up, and even more amazed that there's another AB- here.

[Methofelis]

I'm a cancer, but the majority of my "planets" are in aquarius. And yeah, I'm toasty (though pale by indian standards), and he's pale by everybody's standards ;)
Sorry for going so off topic

Weird.
Oh well. Super race is coming, then.


I'm amazed at the number of ABs to show up, and even more amazed that there's another AB- here.

That I am. Makes me almost wish I could give blood, but I can't. I need it anyway.

[JFK]

I've checked it out. According to Japanese blood type mythology I'm a warrior type. O-

I think it's complete hogwash.

I'm a thinker, not a fighter.

--Oso


For once, we agree.

Total manure. Worse than astrology.

[Methofelis]

For once, we agree.

Total manure. Worse than astrology.

But it is amusing to poke fun at.

[Wolf]

That I am. Makes me almost wish I could give blood, but I can't. I need it anyway.
No point. AB- blood cells hate blood cells from every other type, if they were to put them into someone that wasn't, they probably wouldn't survive.

On the other hand, our plasma is actually valuable. I just don't want to look like a junkie from the process of getting the stuff out, even though they pay pretty well for the pure universal plasma. We AB- people have the gentlest bodily fluids available...

[sallysweatpants]

shit is that why random anime/manga characters have their bloodtypes known? I always thought that was really random.

[Methofelis]

No point. AB- blood cells hate blood cells from every other type, if they were to put them into someone that wasn't, they probably wouldn't survive.

On the other hand, our plasma is actually valuable. I just don't want to look like a junkie from the process of getting the stuff out, even though they pay pretty well for the pure universal plasma. We AB- people have the gentlest bodily fluids available...

I would sell myself to the dev- .. medicine, but I have kidney issues which means blood needs. Which is a bitch, being that I could use the money.


shit is that why random anime/manga characters have their bloodtypes known? I always thought that was really random.

... Well, at least this solved something.

[Wolf]

By "they", I meant the person receiving the blood, btw.

I can't really give blood because the slightest loss makes me light headed, and I would pass out with the amount required when giving blood.

[Methofelis]

By "they", I meant the person receiving the blood, btw.

I can't really give blood because the slightest loss makes me light headed, and I would pass out with the amount required when giving blood.

I know what you meant.

I'm needle-phobic. I have quite a bit of trouble when they just prick me. I think the whole hospital heard me when I had to get a lumbar puncture...

[wildcat]

I searched the threads and didn't find anything on this, so I figured I'd throw it out there.

Has anyone looked into the Japanese idea of typing people by their blood? Mine was a decent enough generalization of me, I suppose (I'm AB - ) but I wanted to see if it did anything for anyone here. It is considered nonsense by most. I'm not basing anything on it, I just found it interesting and amusing.

Here are some external links on the matter aside from a brief explanation:
From Wiki...
"The blood type theory of personality is a popular belief in Japan that a person's ABO blood type or ketsueki-gata (血液型, ketsueki-gata?) is predictive of their personality, temperament, and compatibility with others, similar to the Western world's astrology. This belief has carried over to some extent in other parts of East Asia such as South Korea and Taiwan. This theory is completely dismissed by many scientists as superstition or pseudoscience[1]."

Japanese Blood Type Personality Chart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_blood_type_theory_of_personality)

Article (http://www.proastro.com/?o=general&act=funarticle_2&name=traits_by_blood_type)
There are those professional physicians and priests who make personal obervations about their patients in the field of their character and personality or whatever. The physicians have the advantage of knowing their patients' bloodgroups which the priests obviously do not have.
In some of these findings there is a tendency to see the AB group as having personal traits commonly seen as traits of the Asperger type.

If there is any truth in this I cannot say.
Even if the AB group is rare it is certainly ten times more common than the Asperger type.
If there is any basis of fact in this then it must be that the Aspergers have a correlation with the AB group rather than the other way around.

[abweichend]

It sounds like bullshit, but then again I couldn't compare because I don't even know my blood type.

[Fictionarium]

I personally think it's a load of bullcrap... according to that, I'd be an ESFJ, which is my opposite personality @_@...

[djm]

I'm A-, the link does not make a great deal of sense to me though.

[matthew0028]

anyway, it's all about evolution due to environmental and dietary factors. Type O was the first to evolve, and thus, is the "hunter-gatherer" archetype. They have low dairy tolerences, b/c our earliest ancestors didn't digest dairy properly. Personality wise, "O"s are typed as aggressive. Aggressive like cavemen, perhaps..?

If the various things I've read are any case, lactose tolerance in adults is the atypical human trait, where certain groups (such as Europeans) having the ability to digest dairy due to a relatively recent genetic mutation. I have no idea if it's tied to blood type (haven't seen anything indicating that it is, but I'm hardly an expert in the subject). In any event, if digesting dairy into adulthood is not the most common trait, can it really be said that having a low dairy tolerance is being unable to digest dairy "properly"? Instead, wouldn't losing the dairy digesting ability be the "proper" thing?

Sliding a bit off topic, but anyways...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance

[matthew0028]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_diet


The blood type diet is a diet advocated by Peter D'Adamo and outlined in his book Eat Right 4 Your Type. Its basic premise is that ABO blood type is the most important factor in determining a healthy diet. The diet is widely derided by dieticians, physicians, and nutritional scientists as having no scientific basis.

[Neppy]

I think it's nonsense, since my blood type is A+ and the description for A types contains no words I'd use to describe myself. Unless I'm an anomaly, of course...

[Methofelis]

Like I said when I posted it -- not basing anything on it, just found it odd. Not really something I'd believe in, personally.

[zo]

I've checked it out. According to Japanese blood type mythology I'm a warrior type. O-

I think it's complete hogwash.

I'm a thinker, not a fighter.

--Oso

Thinkers and fighters are not mutually exclusive. Unbridled thought is, in essence, rebellion.

[Curtis24]

Interesting idea, but I think its wrong since most people in America have O type, yet I consider myself(I have O type blood) most definitely different from most people.