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Originally Posted by edcoaching
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.
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No way!! No way in hell is India N. It might have been at one time, and sure, I think if you equate India with Hinduism, Jainism or Buddhism, as religions in themselves - whcih would be an almost fundamentalist thing to do, and very wrong -
then perhaps India could be called N. And yeah, Gandhi, the Father of the nation, was N, but his vision for India and the India of today are so very very different.
I've lived here all my life, and Sensors thrive. You need to be street smart, you need to be alert, you need to know how to talk to people and use every opportunity you get to get what you want and to get where you want. You need to know how to sell yourself here. Right from the bosses in the big corporates to the beggars on the street to the swamis on dope - everyone is marketing themselves and everyone's on the move. The education system depends on how much you can 'mug' up - that is, learn things by heart, which can be torture for right-brained people like me! Employment in a good place or government position more often that not depends on
whom you know rather than
what you know.
And as for the J-ness? There's a running joke in India that IST (Indian Standard Time) stands for Indian Stretchable Time. NOTHING is on time, people. If your bus/train is scheduled for 7:00pm, it's bound to leave only at 8:30. Oh yeah, by the way, all timings are always rounded off for convenience. The only time they aren't rounded off is for the writing of a newborn baby's birth certificate, for astrological purposes.
The bureaucracy can kill you (this is what we really have to blame the British for
) but it isn't efficient at all (the way a bureaucracy is meant to be.) This is mostly because the bureaucrats themselves have no idea of what is going on or if your form reached them or if your passport got made or not, and worse, they don't care anyway.
India is P. Very P. So P that J people are constantly cursing.
Oh yes, and it's a very F country. There's a lot of feeling and 'brotherhood' amongst people, most of the time, that is. The fact that there's suffering and poverty makes closeness very important to any given community. Festivals are celebrated with great splendour, people fall at the feet of their gods, it's all very F with a feeling of emotional saturation.
I've made India sound so terrible.
But this is everyday-India I talk of. Not how it used to be 2000 years ago. And you know what, it's not so difficult to live here once you're used to it! I looovvvve my country! It's ESFP-heaven. It's just one big party, people!
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Maybe it's ISFP. I can't be too sure.