Why do I get unnerved by not having personal distance and which cultures value it?

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RoodBoy

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It's weird, no-one can exist as an island yet I get real creeped by too much warmth or s personal relationship. Is this natural?
I guess I live in the South-East so am used to the mind your own business thing. I hate so called friendly/emotional cultures and think it's rude to impose on people. I hate accents thatt are 'friendly' and people being real friendly when they've just met you. Is the South-East of England one of the most distant cultures? I hear Scandinavia is like that too. Which cultures are not good at personal distance?
It is natural. But let me tell you more. It surely isn't natural if you are so unnerved to the point of being wound up and short of breath and almost upset/tearful when people show overbearing warmth. I get freaked out when Americans do it.
 
It's probably just your personality, so of course it's natural. I'm like that too, actually. I'm not sure if this is true of the cultures, but I think in Mediterranean cultures like Italian and Greek, people have small personal spaces. I would talk to elderly Italian men and they would stand much too close to me that even other people would look at them strangely. They were in no way flirting or hitting on me, and I suppose they thought it rude that I would keep taking small steps away from them. I think East Asian cultures are probably the ones where the least amount of physical contact is made and people have larger personal spaces.
 
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