South Korea as well. The Korean webcomic A Simple Thinking About Blood Type depicts the stereotypes of each blood type and has been adapted as a short anime series in Japan as Ketsuekigata-kun! in 2013 and 2015. Discrimination Blood type harassment, called (wasei-eigo: a portmanteau of blood and harassment), has been blamed for bullying of children in playgrounds, loss of job opportunities, and ending of happy relationships. Many people in Japan and Korea have been discriminated against because of their blood type. Employers ask blood types during interviews despite the warnings they have been given. Children at schools have been split up according to their blood type. The national softball team has customized training to fit each player's blood type. Companies have given work assignments according to their employee's blood type. However, these episodes are thought to be more or less exaggeratedas well as horoscope addiction in Europe or the US, which is sometimes reported in Japan. No blood-type harassment trials have been reported, so far. In reality, most Japanese people do not think blood types determine their personalities, but rather affect them to some degree. See also Barnum effect Blood type diet Zodiac signs - Western equivalent using the positions of stars on a person's birthday to indicate or predict their personality. Notes Further reading Toshitaka Nomi and Alexander Besher, You Are Your Blood Type: the biochemical key to unlocking the secrets of your personality. New York: Pocket Books, 1988. Peter Constantine What's Your Type?: How Blood Types are the Keys to Unlocking Your Personality. 1997. Plume, External links Blood type and the five factors of personality in Asia Japanese Blood Types Human Science ABO Center Website of Peter J. D'Adamo Personality theory Blood types Pseudoscience Personality typologies