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Originally Posted by Xander
I think in typing a country/ culture you have to look more at what they prize than what they do. For example, in the UK an engineer is prized as are doctors etc. However they are not prized for their problem solving but for their wealth of knowledge. Combine this with the UK fascination with general knowledge and esoteric knowledge you get a culture that would embrace anyone capable of holding large amounts of information and keeping it organised. ISTJs are well equipped for such things and their usual disregard for many social nicities is perhaps where the whole "eccentric" concept stems from.
Personally I would have thought that countries where more hollistic approaches to problems/ situations were taken would be intuitive. I'm not too sure about what culture that describes. Perhaps Sweden?
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It's even more helpful to hear what the culture has to say about itself because from without the rituals that actually arise out of need for balance can look like what is honored...
But..an Intuitive culture? Type experts in India point to theirs, saying "We have a billion people, a million gods in our pantheon, and the goal of Hinduism is to go beyond what is seen." That last bit is the kicker toward N.
Koreans, for example, believe their culture is Thinking and that rituals such as their version of Thanksgiving evolved to ritualize community harmony. The French population as a whole is more Feeling yet the goddess of the Revolution is Reason and Rousseau (I think therefore I am) is their model philosopher--attempts to overlay Thinking on their decisions, according to several type users in France...