Just let me do it!
For American men in particular it is especially difficult to step aside and let somebody else do anything. Why is this? This is because of what we were taught from birth, who our parents were, and our built-in cultural bias that favors self-sufficiency.
First, the people who settled America at the outset were not typical of those who made up the population where they were born. This situation has been studied and documented throughout history, so I need not belabor the point, but there is and since the beginning of American history there existed a distinctly American personality. That personality has been celebrated in many forms for its self-sufficiency.
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