Do You Know Who Else Asked For Blood Types? Yeah, that’s right–Nazis
In Korea, people are very concerned about my blood type. Many, not all, Koreans attempt to guess my blood type based off of what they know of my personality. Once they believe that they have figured it out, they tell me how all of my characteristics match the Asian stereotypes of blood type--most enjoy calling me a "B" of which is usually considered the selfish jerk.
Being a jerk, I take joy in the schadenfreude of bringing up the history of this not-so-innocent pet superstition. This blood type nonsense may not only be pseudoscience, but also quite sinister (No offense lefthanders!). Apparently, Nazi Germany used previously debunked research regarding blood types to promote their racist agenda. A while later, Japanese researchers such as the uncredentialed Masahiko Nomi helped propagate these dangerous malformed ideas through Japan. This insult to science was meant to further the mission of breeding superior soldiers for Nazi Germany and militarized Japan. Now, it is used for for discrimination in the work force.
Bad ideas are hard to kill.
While I understand that we should all be cautious about telling other cultures that they should and should not do, I urge Japan, Korea, and other countries that use it, to drop this out of the culture. If you all stop asking people their blood types, I'll do my best to get Canadians and other countries that use it, to stop asking for your astrological signs.
I think this is a fair trade--right?
What I learned today: Hard-boiled eggs
Today I decided that although I know how to hard-boil eggs, there might be other methods out there that I could try. I tried the procedure I had found on Wikihow and the outcome was fantastic. How to hard boil eggs: The simplified version is to turn off the heat after the pot of cold salted vinegar water reaches a boil letting it sit for 17-20 minutes.
Once the egg is hard-boiled and chilled, the cool egg peeling technique of blowing out the delicious insides is easy to do. I apologise for posting a video to a commercial; however, I would also suggest taking a look through some of the other helpful techniques on the Sprintcuts YouTube. To be honest, this type of advertising is quite ingenious and it gives insight as to how the future of advertising looks. Advertisers are now becoming the actual producers of content instead of relying on simply trying to inject their product between television programs or into movie shots. While much of the Sprintcuts content can be found in other places such as a Japanese television show, Sprintcuts has gathered the information up and stylized into into a new entity all together. If I am going to live in a world of advertising, I would rather this than many of the other annoying forms out there. That being said, I do not know whether I should congratulate or admonish Sprintcuts for using public content for their own product--I feel I have to overcome my knee-jerk reaction of being critical of advertising and congratulate them since I would stand by any other artist who uses public content to make their own product.



