To what extent do blood types condition people to be attracted to each other?

It is Saturday night men and women are facing each other sitting nervously at tables, switching partners after time is up, hoping to find that special someone. It is a common situation in the world of match making. When interviewees are asked by BBC what they are looking for, most people in the western world state personality traits, in the eastern theyre translated as blood types. Take a look at the personality traits each blood type shows:

In the western world, blood types play less of a dominant role in attraction between people. However, in the eastern world, especially in Korea and Japan, blood types play a prevalent role in match making and attraction. However, despite the various roles blood type plays in different societies, the main question that should be asked in the overarching question of, Do we choose who we are attracted to? is essentially is, To what extent do blood types condition people to be attracted to each other? The answer to this question can be analyzed both psychologically and biologically in terms of physical attraction and personality. Blood types condition people to be attracted to each other to a great extent. Claim: A. Blood types show correlation in race, we are configured to like a certain race, therefore conditioning people to be attracted to each other Blood types are not things we can see, therefore it cannot be said that physical attraction plays a part in this. Or does it really not? Take a look closely. When looked into, there is a correlation between blood types and, racial-ethnic distribution. These graphs show racial and ethnic distribution in relation to blood types:

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(I need more information on Reggies part to back this up: ) B. Psychological In cultures where blood types play a dominant role, peoples minds become programmed to think that blood types do determine personality traits; it affects human psychology. The theory was imported from Nazi race ideologues and adopted by Japan's militarist government in the 1930s to breed better soldiers. The idea was scrapped years later and the craze faded. It resurfaced in the 1970s, however, as Masahiko Nomi, an advocate with no medical background, gave the theory mass appeal. The background of history affects one psychology from very ancient times to be passed on through generations. Toshitaka promotes blood type through a private group, the Human Science ABO Center, saying it's not intended to rank or judge people but to smooth relationships and help make the best of one's talents. The books tend to stop short of blood-type determinism, suggesting instead that while blood type creates personality tendencies, it's hardly definitive. At the end of the manual it says, "Good job, you're done. So how do you feel about the results?" one blood type manual asks on its closing page. "Your type, after all, is what you decide you are." Mr. Masahiko, Toshitakas father, and Toshitaka, himself has written more than 65 books on blood type typography and more than 6 million copies have been sold in Japan. These books have been translated into English, Chinese, Korean and Thai, targeting the most prevalent languages in our world today. Also according to the recent surveys, more than 72 to 75 percent of Japanese people think there are relation between blood type and personality. Media also promotes this by making productions that describe traits of a blood type B, like My boyfriend is a blood Type B or girls with blood type B, like My sassy girl. As a bandwagon stereotype, blood type plays a huge role in many eastern societies, and as globalization catches on, its role extends towards western cultures. In these cultures people use blood type to determine jobs, advertisement, entertainment, how can blood type bias not be play a part in attraction unless they live in a vaccum? With such a common cultural trend, people become hard-wired to believe they are only attracted to a certain blood type. Counter Claim A. Biological However, if we claim that a certain blood type will determine a specific set of personality traits. It is saying man is configured to be only certain personalities. However, while plasticity of personality is something that has been theorized,

recently brain research has proved such a theory as fact. Personality traits are mirrored by changes in our brains. These changes define who we are. To change your personality you need to reconfigure your brain. The reconfiguration of the brain is possible as it deals with the neurons and their physical arrangement, the latter, which can be changed. Personality can be changed over time through the similar changes to the structure of your brain. Personality includes 5 big characteristics: extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. These things can be changed through awareness methods, visualization, imposing extreme methods such as boot camping. This is because such methods allow behavior time to reconfigure the brain and personality. Blood types do not change unless one gets a bone marrow transplant. It does not have the same plasticity naturally as the brain does. Evidence that personality can change but blood types cannot shows that blood type cannot condition people into choosing their target for attraction. C. Empirically derived personality traits; deductive logic Not only that but the evidence of these personality traits are derived from empirical studiesstudies that monitor the personalities of certain blood types. Not necessarily from tangible chemicals or of any biological signs that determine personality, not even the study of the brain. The whole compilation of personality traits are products of deductive logic, which is not always best in supporting studies fit to universal people. Yonsei University, a renowned university says A close scrutiny of the above results indicates a consistent trend about B group. It shows that as compared to the other groups the B-group persons are (a) emotionally less stable, (b) more apprehensive, (c) less self-sufficient, and (d) more tense. Of these four characteristics, at least three -- (a), (b), (d) -- are readily be classified under 'affective' or 'emotional' behaviour, and the data therefore support the Angst and Maurer-Groeli (1974) findings that emotionality is related to blood group B. There are no data here to support the relationship between introversion and AB blood group. A study that suggests that it is true. However, they added scores if some reports show the same contents with generally known knowledge (or prejudice) in popular culture and they subtracted scores if others show the opposite contents. Unreliable. Netizens claimed different opinions. One of which is, You can read another persons personality through their blood type and sibling relations.

They used different rubric of evaluation as the previous research that showed brain plasticity: Introversion Logic Stability Leadership Consideration. Point is: there are so many factors to be considered when deciding such traits especially when there is no biological, tangent evidence of something that certainly programs a person to take a certain personality. Also, these traits are often very open to perception and bias. It cannot condition people to be attracted because even the claims of certain personality traits associated with the blood types are logical fallacies. However the plasticity of the brain can also contribute to gearing the brain to think a certain way, and the prevalence of deductive logic in blood type typography only makes the psychological impact greater yielding to a bigger influence in the determination of attraction. Though, it is most reasonable to say that the human biology of blood types do not pre-determine attraction especially because correlation does not equal causation. However, this would have applied if such theories were not so widely known or re-enforced. Reality is, it is. With the rapid rise of such people thinking blood type determines personality that they are attracted to, the psychological implications and biological elasticity do play a heavy role in conditioning whom we are attracted to, or even shaping ourselves to become attractive to a certain blood type. Let us bring this evaluation back to the main question, Do we choose who we are attracted to? The investigation of this knowledge issue with regards to the things to keep in mind when talking about attraction majorly suggest, no.