> some crazy hypothesizing This is crazytalk indeed - but I like it. The role of personalities in society is certainly underestimated and understudied. My favo

> some crazy hypothesizing This is crazytalk indeed - but I like it. The role of personalities in society is certainly underestimated and understudied. My favorite "proof" is how certain societies favor certain personality types, i.e. how a certain personality probably won a culture war that took place in the formative years of that culture. Which could explain why som introvert westerners feel at home in in the restraining culture of Japan, and why some extrovert and freedom-needy Japanese feel more at home in the US culture. And I agree that democracy should better allow for peaceful coexistence between personality types - it is not always the case though, at least not hitherto: even democracy has a history of repression against people with certain personality types: introversion (shyness, modesty) is still regarded as borderline pathological in many western societies. With that said - there is much more going on in a culture than things predicated on personalities. But it has a certain influence, I'm sure of it.