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Originally Posted by Jennifer
Xander loves America! You should wear a t-shirt.
It's just sort of amusing to have someone in England tell me (who has lived in the States all my life) what my country is like.
(htb's right in that the US is so large, and with so much "importing" over the years -- influx of other cultural attitudes -- that we don't even have consistent approaches from locale to locale. England is much smaller geographically.)
I think the ESTJ qualities you're seeing are remnants from 50 years ago. That's where a lot of the modernist, grid-style thinking came from. If you look at modern design and architecture, it's different. Maybe you miss that, because you're not watching the change happen over the years.
(btw, you don't HAVE to be right. It wasn't a bad supposition, I just don't think it fits the data.)
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Don't have to be....
.... stupid nonsense.. of course I do... err ... am.
I do understand that living there may give a totally different perspective to things but also being too close to a subject (be it person or country) would also warp the perspective. In fact I have been warned about trying to type people I know well as I may see more of the shadow and get it all wrong.
As for the diversity, I think the Australian president said it best when he basically told all imigrants that it was this way before you got here, you wanted to move here so please respect that it will, by and large, stay the same.
You may well be right that I am typing from assumption and not observation, I may well alter my opinion at some later point but at present I see no real quantity of evidence to type the US as anything other than ESTJ.