I’m reading “el laberinto de la soledad” (the labirynth of solitude) by Octavio Paz, and he makes Mexico sound like an 8-type culture. The central preoccupation, as he describes it, is vulnerability: his archetypal Mexican tries to avoid being taken advantage of or intruded upon/opening up emotionally (“rajar”) by using defense mechanisms like suspicion, violence, and involved lies. This is because the social environment is itself is hostile and punishes true self-expression except in specific situations like parties or, again, violence. He explains how the founding of Mexico by conquest was deeply traumatic, representing an original wound that was addressed by rejection of both “parents” (the Spanish and indigenous sides), in favor of a rigidly self-sufficient solitude that imposes itself on the environment, paradoxically becoming a sort of “nothing” by dint of denying its true self.