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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 May 2010 03:35:11PM 3 points [-]

I didn't quite say that.

There's social pressure to be extroverted in the US-- but there are a lot of unhappy introverts. There's social pressure to be introverted in other places (Great Britain?), but for all I know there are a lot of squelched-feeling, lonely extroverts.

Comment author: whpearson 15 May 2010 06:07:46PM 4 points [-]

Alas no, there is no social pressure to be introverted here in the UK, at least not in my generation and younger. We have the same celebrity culture which idolises the loud and outgoing as does America.

Middle class, middle aged British people are a bit more reserved than the younger generation.