You make a great point. Research in Australia indicates men, particularly baby boomers in rural Australia are more likely to score as ST's in MBTI tests. This becomes more evident in Aux and Tertiary style, particularly later in life. I feel the same is also true for Enneagram tests, indeed most tests. I suspect much of this is wrapped up in our Narrated self - the stories (inner and projected) we use to explain and express our travesl through life (our individual/ psychological ontology or passage). I have been mapping the changes in my own Big 5 scores change over time, and it's clearly not fixed. Thank heck ! I'd hate to be cemented into place for life ! Regards Marty
lol typing countries... I wouldn't take this very seriously.
I live in Catalonia (Spain) and I would go for 6 all the way. Maybe the rest of Spain is more 7ish. There's of course a lot of hedonism and parties here as well, but the general attitude is 6ish/insecure, going with the flow.
Then again I think pretty much all the world is 6.
I'm a 4 and never felt too comfortable with French culture/people, but I have been there for just a few days and don't know that much about the country; it's not where I would like to live though. Sweden which has also been typed 4, and I know through Bergman movies, seems waaay more attractive to me.
Am I the only one who agrees with the original Japanese typing? I am not crazy familiar with Japanese culture or anything but...
My understanding of the Japanese business model is that innovative and creative ideas are encouraged and rewarded. One of the biggest culture clashes when Toyota was teaching its business model in the U.S. was that the Japanese managers believed that every employee should be encouraged to make suggestions to their bosses that would improve the product and work environment. The American managers were used to considering their workers to be a different (much lower) species. Americans wanted automatons and successful bosses. The Japanese wanted clever and creative workers that could bring them new ideas. That sounds to me like they strongly valued some elements that could be brought to the table by fours and fives. The Americans, on the other hand, seemed to be too busy equating financial success with intelligence to see that their employees could have good ideas.
Another thing that I find interesting in a distant and none too familiar way is that it seems like Japanese kids are just as accepted when they dress outrageously and creatively as other plainer clothed kids. That lack of conformity in outward appearance usually meets with some pretty staunch resistance and overt criticism in the states. That also seems to suggest a bigger willingness to accept the artistic drama a four might be interested in...
Another thing that I found interesting when I was reading about Japan a few years ago is that while people often see a whole lot of outward conformity in their etiquette and behavior there is actually more acceptance of individuality in private than in the U.S. For instance, they tend to report being much more religiously tolerant of different groups than Americans do. They also have a dazzlingly innovative and edgier night life. Weird looks to be highly tolerated.
Well, Germany is absolutely and unquestionably a social 6 culture, though the "Prussian" character is 1-fixed. Switzerland is the German-speaking 1 country, Austria is 9. About Germany there is simply no doubt; that's very basic. England isn't 5, and as for France, as above...
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