There is such a thing as temperament, which is completely physiological. A Latin American is a lot more hyper than a Scandinavian. A Ukrainian is more hyper than a Russian, but less so than a Latin American. A Swede or a German strikes me as too slow, while a Guatemalan is somewhat annoyingly too lively. I know somebody from Venezuela who is a deep introvert, but Anglos don’t perceive her as such because she is Latin American and so still much more sociable than an Anglo extrovert.
And it’s like that with everything. Every baseline is culturally mediated. What’s considered extremely pessimistic in one culture is completely normal in another. You can be a very agreeable American, but for a Hispanic, you might read as a curmudgeon.
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