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RE: Being Introverted is NOT a Personality Defect in Need of "Fixing!"
Clash of cultures, perhaps?
Consider in the old world, people were born knowing their place. If you were a serf, you were a serf. If you were a farmer, you were a farmer. If you were part of the peerage, you were part of the peerage. People who came to the "New World" often did so to have a chance to set their own rules for where they fit.
I was thinking about this last night; survival on the frontier required extroversion. As much as the frontier image is of a lone family holding off an Indian attack, it was communities that really fought back
stretching that a lil further; I wonder how much extroversion was required by the explorers as they made contact with the Indians and set up trading