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may have thought. So if, deep down,

you’ve been thinking that it’s only natural

for the bold and sociable to dominate

the reserved and sensitive, and that

the Extrovert Ideal is innate to humanity,

Robert McCrae’s personality map

suggests a different truth: that each

way of being—quiet and talkative,

careful and audacious, inhibited and

unrestrained—is characteristic of its

own mighty civilization.

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Ironically, some of the people who have

the most trouble holding on to this

truth are Asian-American kids from Cupertino.

Once they emerge from adolescence

and leave the confines of their

hometown, they find a world in which

loudness and speaking out are the

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