“While introverted Chinese-American twelve-year-olds felt perfectly fine about themselves – presumably because they still measured themselves according to their parents’ traditional value systems – by the time they got to be seventeen and had been more exposed to America’s Extrovert Ideal, their self-regard had taken a nosedive.”

“While introverted Chinese-American twelve-year-olds felt perfectly fine about themselves – presumably because they still measured themselves according to their parents’ traditional value systems – by the time they got to be seventeen and had been more exposed to America’s Extrovert Ideal, their self-regard had taken a nosedive.”

— Susan Cain