What does your preconceived notion on Russian males matter?
Admittedly not a lot
For a more accurate impression you'd have to look at MBTI sampling
My perception is only really based on the observations of travel writers and TV travel show hosts as well as the usual media influences as well as the slavic immigrants I've met in my country
But i find it hard to believe that MBTI sampling in the US would place INFJ's at 1-2% of the population and yet something miraculous had occured in Rusia whereby INFJ's had somehow become the most common type!
What is it...does vodka turn people into an INFJ? Perhaps i certainly drank my share in my youth
But what i think a far more likely scenario is is that a climate of paranoia was created in Russia because they had a coup there which overthrew their royal family. The group that did that were called the Bolsheviks and their leaders were jewish and their financial backers were the jewish bankers of wallstreet
This in itself would create suspicions in a country where jews were a minority
Adding to that suspicion would be the way the bolsheviks violently crushed the slavic russian revolutionary group called the menshiviks; the bolsheviks then launched a killing spree reign of teror that killed more people than the later nazi holocaust
The bolsheviks then did various dealings with hitler which then fell apart as stalin took over. By some accounts stalin a georgian man threw a spanner in the works of the international bankers by preventing the russian economy from 'liberalising' which is to say letting in the international bankers (and oil cartel) in to exploit their markets and suck their economy dry
This lead to a race between the russians and the allies to invade germany in order to not only grab the resources of germany but also its scientists and their research on a variety of subjects from rocket science to mind control
The allies grabbed the Ruhr region which was the industrial heartland of germany thereby denying russia (which was a peasant economy) the industrial might she needed to win the ensuing 'cold' war which was not cold at all, it was just fought through proxys. The paranoia went into overdrive with the creation of the nuclear bombs and its use on the japanese; some voices in the US military were advocating a nuclear attack on the russians before they could develop their own bomb which they did ahead of expectations in 1950
So you see in that climate of paranoia and fear the central controllers were always arresting and often killing or imprisoning in siberian gualags anyone they suspected of having antagonistic thoughts towards their authority
It is in such a climate that certain types known for independent thought and creativity are demonised and persecuted by the authorities. For example: artistic types, writers, journalists and so on who are the kind of people who are able to help others see things a certain way
Socionics was created out of this climate of fear and the creator was given an award by the central authorities because they had given them a tool by which they felt they could identify possible troublemakers
This is kind of in the territory now of 'minority report' 'pre-crime' where you demonise an entire MBTI type because of their commonly expressed traits
It seems to me that Lucy Jnr has read some of this paranoid cold war era population control material and is expressing their anti-INFJ agenda
It also ties into what he is saying about how INFJ's should be made to join the army! That also ties into cold war era thinking where large amounts of people were conscripted into the military
Why i think his thinking is dangerous is because i belive it comes from a left brain dominant control system mentality which always seeks to suck the colour out of life by destroying artistic types and creative and sensitive and expressive types who are the people who bring the colour and flair to human society. They are simply the people who make life worth living
This concept was captured well in the german film 'the lives of others' where the east german left brain stasi were spying on creative right brain people who were theatre directors, playrights and actors; it is well worth a watch to understand better what i am talking about here; the film contains an important lesson and a warning for all of us about the future
Can infjs not be that way?
I don't personally believe that the russian stereotypical national character is an expression of the INFJ type
We have a lot of polish immigrants here in scotland and they have that tough slavic character; they don't as whole strike me as being mostly INFJ's
I reckon they are the same or similar percentages of MBTI as in the US
