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and its shadings of dark and light
grays—dark for extroversion, light for
introversion—reveal a picture that “is
quite clear: Asia … is introverted,
Europe extroverted.” Had the map also
included the United States, it would be
colored dark gray. Americans are some
of the most extroverted people on
earth.
McCrae’s map might seem like a
grand exercise in cultural stereotyping.
To group entire continents by personality
type is an act of gross generalization:
you can find loud people in mainland
China just as easily as in Atlanta,
Georgia. Nor does the map account for
subtleties of cultural difference within a
country or region. People in Beijing
have different styles from those in
Shanghai, and both are different still
from the citizens of Seoul or Tokyo.
Similarly, describing Asians as a “model
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