In my country (Argentina), and talking about stereotypes, most boys are raised as 7s and girls as 3s (in general, we're the world's production of party animal ESFPs). In the OP, [MENTION=4945]EJCC[/MENTION] mentioned Latin women being raised as 8s. I don't know if women are raised as very powerful 8s, but certainly men like women with strong character. In my country in particular, most families have Italian relatives, and we have the figure of the Italian grandma, which is as 2 as she is 8 (meaning she will stuff you like a pig, make you sweaters and fight your parents for you... and then meet your classmates and decide who of them are friend potential and go with pots and metal spoons to the Congress to make noise because we have an incompetent president... you love your grandma as much as you fear her verdict). That tradition came because in Italy the important figure is the Italian mother, but we're the grandchildren of them, so we modified the tradition.
Anyway. I have an ESFJ mother and an INTJ father. Both professors. As soon as I liberated my hands from crawling, they gave me a book and taught me to read, and they taught me that one had to be curious. So whenever I had questions, they answered me and asked ME something (sort of like Socrates).
I also come from a family that let me cover the walls with crayon doodles that I called "frogs". And then my INTJ father would come with a crayon and draw a super-realistic frog beside my "art" (pfff, show-off), and then we would go to a bookstore and sit on the floor and check encyclopaedias for different types of frogs, and then we'd talk about amphibian animals, and then what other kind of animals there were, etc, and then my mother woul teach me how to write the word "amphibian" and the rest of the animals. Basically they taught me that I didn't have to learn in order to have a cookie, but I had to want to learn for knowledge itself. It was all a system.
Then I was introduced in the system (kindergarten), and that's where all went south, because I knew 50 colours and my classmates named them "tomato, mint, banana colours" and would hit me for being smart. And all I had to battle with was studying more things, because that was all I knew how to do, since my parents are both social misfits who think society is still like the 50s and teenagers get together to drink orange juice and play cards until they meet someone, date for 10 years, get married, discover sex and then forget about it unless they want kids, and that's about it.
My growing dislike of people made me spend my time learning new abilities and being alone, which is where I suspect I developed my e4 and e1, the first by this sense of individuality in a sea of "future Youtubers", where introspection is an unknown word, and the latter by forming my own values as a list of oppositions to all the personal values of my mother and the general values of the society I'm "inserted" in.
And that's how I built me.
