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Blood Thirsty People
Probably, there is no other people like Japanese who are interested in blood type. Many Japanese believe in a relation between a person's blood type and his/her personality, like they believe in horoscope. For example...
"If you have O-type blood, you always express your feeling straight and you have rich facial expression."
"If you have A-type blood, you are introspective, cooperative, and you always take care of the others."
"If you have B-type blood, you are aggressive and do everything without a preconceived idea."
"If you have AB-type blood, you have a rational view and you can make good relationship with everyone else."
"If you are a woman who has AB-type blood, an A-type man makes the best match with you, but an O-type man is worst nightmare..."
"You have a character that is suitable for B-type blood, but mine is not A-type-like..."
People always have such conversations. There were even some companies which employed only persons who had a certain blood-type. (Perhaps, that system must have been abolished.) Psychologist TAKEJI FURUKAWA pointed out the relationship of blood-type and personality on his book published in 1932. Although FURUKAWA's opinion had been forgotten for long, writer MASAHIKO NOMI spread the character judging by blood type with his several books in the 1970s. The NOMI's books based on the theory of FURUKAWA. Now blood-type has been featured in various media.
(Though the most general "ABO classification" is frequently referenced, the other classification like "Rh classification" are seldom mentioned. )
However, the relationship between blood type and personality has not been proved scientifically. The people who affirm the theory always assert that the theory was based on the result of statistics. But, it may be already impossible to get completely fair statistics about blood type in present Japan. Because the belief of the theory is spread too much among the people, the result of investigation will have a bias.
I personally think that our personality must not be related to our blood type. It is foolish that people are going to bring their characters close to suitable for their blood types.
Are you cooperative? Are you aggressive? Do you have rich facial expression?
How can we judge such matters about ourselves? Or are these matters should be judged by others? And should they be called "personality"?
I don't feel like concluding my or others' character too easily. That is probably because I have A-type blood and am introspective...
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It's not THAT farfetched considering certain hormones or chemicals in our body create certain moods, feelings, and sensations. IE: adrenaline, endorphins, dopamine, etc...Blood is the most abundant liquid "chemical" in our body, it could be possible that the different blood types carry with them different characterists that cause variance in behavior.
Posted by: Janet | Nov 4, 2004 1:09:12 AM
I agree with the point you made. Rather, what I can't accept is people classifying our personality so easily.
Posted by: xogij | Nov 4, 2004 10:00:43 AM
This is a very interesting concept. I have heard of phases of the moon, hair color, and other interesting ideas as to WHY a person behaves a certain way, but this is the first time I have ever read about blood.
Posted by: Mary Ann Steinacker-Grimm | Nov 20, 2004 2:04:52 PM
Since 99.5% of Japanese has RH+ type blood, almost all Japanese are simply classified into four blood types, A, B, O, and AB. If its classification was more complicated, nobody would suggest that.
Posted by: xogij | Nov 21, 2004 4:55:27 PM
This theory, long since discredited, was imported into Japan from Germany during the Meiji Era, when Japan was voraciously devouring foreign ideas wholesale.
Doctors at that time learned much of Western medicine from the Germans, including this pseudo science, which was based on sinister theories of racial superiority linked to blood type (as well as head shape and facial features among others) -- and we all know where that led.
South Korea has recently latched onto this fad. Interestingly, blood types there are linked to completely different personality traits than those in Japan.
Posted by: j. | Feb 15, 2005 6:08:15 PM
Although I've heard that the modern medical foundation was imported from Germany to Japan (Japanese doctors are using German medical terms even now), I didn't know that the theory also came from Germany. People must be surprised when they hear that the theory had a racistic meaning. Thank you for letting us know about it
Posted by: xogij | Feb 16, 2005 10:00:19 AM
Hi, I'm a Japanese woman and I completely agree with your thoughts ! I work as a teacher of psychology, and I'm being irritated by those silly KETSUEKIGATA stuff seen on TV and magazines almost every day ! The theory is clearly racistic and it leads to discrimination. I really hope to see more objections.
I enjoy your weblog tremendously. Please be patient with my inappropriate English expressions; I'm trying to brush up my skills.
Posted by: maricca | Mar 9, 2005 11:08:07 PM
I always wondered why in anime character's profiles, it specified their blood type
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