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CibbuanoUsing blood types to pick the perfect mate
December 25th 2008 06:52
Tired of struggling to find a partner? Exhausted from dating only to meet men or women that seem to alien to you? Wandering the globe looking for your soulmate?
The Japanese might say it's all due to blood type, as the Guardian points out.
"Blood types are cited as a factor in any thing from a colleague's quick temper to an inability to secure a coveted job or the affections of a prospective lover.
Blood typology has filled countless pages and a large chunk of television airtime since journalist Masahiko Nomi wrote the first of 30 hugely popular books on the subject in the early 1970s.
Daytime TV shows offer "blood horoscopes", while on sale are all manner of items supposedly tailored to each of the four blood groups, anything from chewing gum to condoms to bath salts - a relaxing, blue concoction for the sensitive type A."
Blood typology has filled countless pages and a large chunk of television airtime since journalist Masahiko Nomi wrote the first of 30 hugely popular books on the subject in the early 1970s.
Daytime TV shows offer "blood horoscopes", while on sale are all manner of items supposedly tailored to each of the four blood groups, anything from chewing gum to condoms to bath salts - a relaxing, blue concoction for the sensitive type A."
Total nonsense, of course, but that doesn't stop people from believing in it, as the West has its horoscopes for astrology. The question is: which one is more ridiculous?
I guess blood types are easier to believe in, as it's actually something to do with your physical makeup. Interestingly, historians suggest that blood types had something to do with the social classes in medieval Japan:
"Some experts explain blood typology's central place in the Japanese psyche by pointing to the rough similarity between the distribution of blood types and social classes in feudal Japan: the strong-willed samurai (O) and mild-mannered farmers (A), and smaller numbers of sensitive artisans (AB) and earthy tradesmen (B)."
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