![]() ![]() So far, it’s been fodder for an amusing topic and makes for good conversational ice-breakers. Nevertheless, I personally haven’t seen any discriminatory effects of it myself. Most would object on moral grounds: the concept also has rather an ominous war historical associations - it was used by Nazis to support their ideas on supremacy over different races, and later by the Japanese militarist government which commissioned a study aimed at breeding soldiers based on certain blood types. In other countries, the theory holds interest for dietary applications, since the differing blood types evolved in early times association with different populations and communities that may have been nomadic-pastoral or agricultural, hence their respective differing adaptations on the dietary front.īut foreign news makes much about how blood typing can turn into discrimination here in Japan … about how kindergartens divide up their kids based on blood types (something I have never seen) and how employees can be given assignments based on their blood type personalities. Ethnic studies found that there were different blood group distributions across the world (with Asian populations having a higher percentage of Type B). The concept is said to have been founded by the Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner, who found three different blood types in 1900. Has this question come up yet? Keitsuekigata wa nani gata? This question will inevitably surface if your kid lives and goes to school in the Japanese community. ![]()
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