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When cultural differences make your natural social style feel wrong

I am an extrovert who moved to a culture where people are more reserved and I feel like my friendliness comes across as aggressive or fake.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultural codes around friendship can make our authentic ways of connecting feel foreign in our own lives.

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