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Myers-Briggs Goes to China - by Snowden Todd

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Culturally drifting the night away

The first time I realized the Myers-Briggs personality test was a thing in East Asia was during my first week of school in Korea. As my co-teacher explained to me the pitfall of leaving at 4:29 p.m. instead of the contractually mandated 4:30 p.m., she probed a bit at my background—who, why, how, etc. Then she asked me about my MBTI. I was taken aback—Myers-Briggs, here in a port city of the hermit kingdom? Though port cities are veritably hubs of cultural exchange, I thought maybe this was a ruse to connect with a narcissistic American. But then I started looking at meetup apps and social…

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