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I have yet to read the whole article, but I got too excited when I got to these parts[0] and had to write a quick comment first. This concept as described remi
by drakonka 5y ago
I have yet to read the whole article, but I got too excited when I got to these parts[0] and had to write a quick comment first.
This concept as described reminded me immediately of a book I read as a teenager, called Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided_Kingdom
It is about the country being broken up into four sectors based on the four humors: red, green, yellow, and blue. Scanning through some descriptions of Surrounded by Idiots, the similarities are uncanny. I thought the whole four-humors thing and its derivatives have been definitively debunked for a very long time, how did this book not get laughed out of the gates?
[0] Parts that made me pause: 'Around the same time, qualified psychologists began reporting how clients were considering leaving their partners because, “I can’t possibly live with a yellow person”...'; '...they had been tested at the Human Resources department only to be told they needed to move to another team because their “colour combination”...'; '...A teenage girl comes home and tells her mother, with an air of resignation, “mum, I’m a green.” She had been tested by her school counsellor...'
- sersi 5y ago> clients were considering leaving their partners because, “I can’t possibly live with a yellow person”...'; I remember hearing similar comments from Japanese friends once they learned their boyfriend/girlfriend's blood group. (Personality tests based on blood groups are huge there).
- boublepop 5y agoIts just confirmation bias in relationships. If a person really wanted to stay with their SO, they would be saying “omg, our personalities are so incompatible on paper, but we’re just so great together despite that” But since they want to leave and can’t find a good reason or don’t feel that they can stand by whatever reasoning they have, it becomes “We have to break up because you’re yellow and I’m red” rather than: “we have to break up because I’m shallow and your body doesn’t look like it did when we met” or “we have to break up because after you got fired you haven’t been able to spend as much money on me”. Etc.