quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

minority”—even when meant as a compliment—is
just as confining and condescending
as any description that reduces
individuals to a set of perceived
group characteristics. Perhaps it is also
problematic to characterize Cupertino
as an incubator for scholarly stand-outs,
no matter how flattering this might
sound to some.
But although I don’t want to encourage
rigid national or ethnic typecasting,
to avoid entirely the topic of cultural
difference and introversion would be a
shame: there are too many aspects of
Asian cultural and personality styles
that the rest of the world could and
should learn from. Scholars have for
decades studied cultural differences in
personality type, especially between
East and West, and especially the dimension
of introversion-extroversion,
the one pair of traits that psychologists,
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