Relationships July 10, 2017
Does your blood type say anything about you?
Blood is necessary. It’s beautiful. It’s amazing, but gosh, without the proper science background, it makes people squeamish.
Okay, it makes me squeamish. But that should only encourage some fun research on blood facts, right? To start out small, here are some interesting facts about the most common blood type, O-positive.
There are four different blood types: A, B, AB and O. O is the “universal donor” and AB is the “universal receiver.” This works out well: O is the plurality and is conveniently able to share with everyone else. It’s almost straight out of a communist manifesto. Everything is looking pretty red.
Blood is also classified by rhesus (Rh) factor which is a specific red blood cell antigen that’s in the blood. If your blood has the antigen, you’re Rh positive and if it doesn’t, you’re Rh negative.
I’m not trying to mansplain science, this is all really foreign stuff that the average person doesn’t know. But an antigen is a toxin or other foreign substance that induces an immune response in the body, especially the production of antibodies (blood proteins).
O is a recessive gene. But how could a recessive gene still be the most common blood type? It’s ancestry, mostly. Even though it’s not the dominant gene, it’s in so many people that it just keeps getting passed down. Sure, between an O parent and an A parent the A would win for the child, but there were so many O’s to start and they kept reproducing with other O’s, the population was just filled with O’s.
It’s actually very inspirational: even if you’re weak, you can team up with your peers to take over the stronger ones. There’s symbolism in everything!
Not scientifically, no. But there are East Asian theories that different blood types have different inerrant personality traits. Here are the different blood types’ alleged characteristics:
A: earnest, sensible, reserved, tense, pessimistic, patient, responsible and cautious.
B: passionate, creative, animal loving, forgetful, selfish, flexible, cheerful, unreliable, active and optimistic.
AB: cool, controlled, critical, indecisive, rational, unforgiving, sociable, adaptable and intelligent.
O: confident, self-determined, self-centered, cold, ambitious, aggressive, unpredictable, strong-willed, ruthless, envious, intuitive, agreeable, competitive and athletic.
It’s no Myers Briggs, but it’s fun to theorize. Especially if the most common blood type, O-positive wins an athletic tournament — They can literally say: “It’s in my blood!”
Hopefully now you can be more positive towards blood and reading this wasn’t in vein.
