In fact, the notion of a national character is a form of manifestation of the same typological thinking that has already been mentioned. Certain minimal differences that actually exist (e.g., temperament of southern peoples) and which are less significant than similarities are taken as the basis for a certain type. Typological thinking, as mentioned above, is characterized by categorically (or one or the other), the absence of gradation, the isolation of something special and the blowing it up by ignoring everything else...

Character is a mental property of a person that determines the strategic line of human behavior and expresses his attitude: to the world around him, to work, to others, to himself. The formation of character is determined by a complex mechanism of interaction of external and internal factors, in the process of which both biogenetic features of an individual and social conditions of his existence and development are closely intertwined and interact. The character is defined and formed during the whole life of a person...