- What's up home skillets,
it's a great day here on YouTube.
Today I was just thinking to myself,
what's a video I could make that could
possibly be received quite poorly,
and accidentally offend a lot of people?
I began thinking to myself,
what are the personality types of different countries?
So why don't we start off with the United States.
And we might also end with the United States,
depending on how badly this goes.
If you're totally new to my channel, hi.
What I talk about on my channel are the
Myers-Briggs personalities.
You know, the one with the four letters.
And if you don't know what any of that means,
just Bing it.
I'm not talking about what's the
most common personality type,
I'm talking about the culture.
I'm talking about the image,
the energy of the place.
What personality type would we ascribe to that.
Now if we're talking about just the traditional
romanticized image of the U.S.,
I'd have to say that the personality type
would be ISTP.
And if you wanna know, the stereotypical ISTP
is Clint Eastwood.
You get what I'm going for here?
It's like the romanticized image
of the American cowboy.
He's out on his own, with a cigarillo in his mouth.
He's a lone wolf.
He don't need nobody.
And he don't want nobody.
He's gotta make a name for himself.
See, it's all about the American Dream,
and all of that.
The individual out there, against everyone else.
(laughing)
Very adversarial.
But I'm not so sure that that's really
like what America is overall.
That's kind of like a mythological
interpretation of what America is.
If we wanna look more realistically at things,
and we look at, for instance, the pop culture
of the U.S., just turn on the T.V. for a few minutes.
It looks a bit more like an ESFP.
The stereotype of an ESFP is like,
let's live in the moment,
let's find all these new things that we like.
Let's have fun.
Yeah!
It's like America is always looking
for something new to like.
And then we drop that,
and we find something else new to like.
Without really being too logical about it,
without thinking too much about the future,
or the past,
that's one side of America.
But, the thing is that, the U.S. has many regions,
and if you've ever been around,
if you've ever traveled around the country,
you know that if you go to one place
on one side of the country,
and then another place on the other side,
they're quite different.
Yeah, it feels the same, there's a McDonald's
and a Starbucks there,
but it feels different, also.
The people are different, the energy is different.
So for instance, if you go on the East Coast,
yeah, the East Coast is a big place.
Let's focus on like, the North East.
People are gonna get offended just cause
I'm leaving stuff out.
If you look at the North Eastern megalopolis,
which is New York City,
down to D.C. and all those cities around there.
In New York City, you have the center of business,
and finance, you have Wall Street.
Down in D.C. you have the center of
the Government and politics.
It's all about power and money in one way or another.
And while there's definitely more to the East Coast,
there's arts and stuff,
there's always this sense of no nonsense,
let's get to the point.
So you could argue that this part of the East Coast
is more like, ESTJ, in terms of personality.
The first ESTJ that comes to mind is not America.
Gordon Ramsey.
He's always just kinda like, "Let's get it done,
it's not good enough.
No, do it again!"
My Ramsey impersonation is off today,
I am so sorry.
But that's what the East Coast is like,
at least in my overly generalized view of things.
Then you move over to the Mid-West.
It's a bit different.
The people in the Mid-West are generally more polite,
a little bit more easy going, and nice.
I was shocked the last time I went out to the Mid-West.
I was like, people are nice, what?
People are polite?
They act like they care about my existence?
What, what kind of world is this?
So I would say the Mid-West's personality type
is like an ISFJ.
They're nice, they wanna help, they're great people.
They're fantastic people.
Terrific people, believe me.
Then we go down South.
Should I do this whole part with a
terrible Southern accent,
that's nondescript in location?
Now, depending on where you're from,
you might have a bad impression of the South.
Cause on the one hand, there's like this negative
stereotype that it's a bunch of backwards people,
our shooting their guns,
and they're racist and stuff like that.
Which I'm sure, in places, those stereotypes are true.
But then there's also the stereotype
of Southern Hospitality, and the stereotype of everything
is just a bit slower down here,
that's how we like it.
We're just having a good time, living our life.
This one is a bit more difficult to pin down,
especially since I brought up the racism thing,
cause now people are gonna be like,
"You think that type is racist?!"
But when you look at the more positive,
the Southern Hospitality thing,
you could think of the South as being
sort of like, ESFJ.
It's just like a big old Grandmother, like,
"I got some food for ya, come on everybody,
let's feel good, let's go down to the country concert."
Oh, my gosh, this is devolving into terrible stereotypes.
But ESFJ, I'm sticking to it.
I don't care what you think.
(scoffing)
Then we go over to the West Coast.
They're a lot more chill, and laid back, man.
Of course the West Coast is a huge coast,
so you can't just lump them all together.
So let's start with Southern California.
That's where Hollywood is,
that's where most of our entertainment comes.
It's like the center of pop culture.
Which I mentioned earlier, is one of those defining
things about the U.S.
It's kind of interesting how it's just like,
this one place produces all these things
that go out everywhere over the whole country.
I thought it was interesting.
So Southern California's a bit more ESFP,
a bit more laid back, and like,
"We just take life as it comes,
we're just enjoying ourselves.
We're having a good time."
You go a bit further up California,
up the 101, up the PC1, is that what it's called?
PCL, Pacific Coast Highway, PCH?
You go up to Northern California
where they have Silicon Valley, and wineries.
I'm not exactly sure what to make of those two things,
how to conflate those things into one personality type.
They're still pretty laid back.
I mean, it's California, after all.
Maybe you could say that they're a bit more NT,
are they ENTP's up there in Northern California?
And then you go up even more North,
to the Pacific Northwest.
I think I said per-cific.
The per-cific Northwest.
There's tech companies up there, too.
They've also got coffee, they've got Frasier,
and they've got logging.
What to make of all that?
Are they also NT's?
Could they be INTP's up there?
Or maybe they're just ESFP's,
also in disguise.
You can see this is where things
are starting to fall apart a little bit.
I'm not even talking about all the regions.
I left out the Rocky Mountain areas,
I left out the Piedmont Valley,
I left out the Prairies.
They've all got different personality types.
And it all comes together to make one country.
I was gonna say big, happy.
We're big, I'm not so sure how happy we are.
Let me know in the comments what you think.
What do you think the personality
type of the U.S. is.
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