Caring for Your Introvert Analysis

I found this article, Caring for Your Introvert by Jonathon Rauch, very interesting in terms of the writing style and thought process behind it. From what I understood from the article is that the purpose of this article is to raise awareness about introverts and to address any misconceptions that the audience has about the matter. It is worth noting however that Rauch is an introvert himself, which explains the bias in this article. From reading the article, the reader can tell two different characteristics about Rauch. One, he is very proud of being an introvert and thinks very highly of introverts as a whole. And two, that Rauch absolutely cannot stand the introvert counterpart; the extrovert. When talking about all of the misconceptions that the public has of introverts, such as them being antisocial and generally odd, Rauch seems to feel almost personally hurt by these thoughts and becomes very defensive in explaining why introverts are not only just normal people, but that they are smarter than everyone else. With the same passion that Rauch praises introverts, he also bashes extroverts as a whole. In one particular section, Rauch discusses how extroverts are unintelligent and the large majority of what they say has little to no significance at all. I found this article very ironic in some aspects and I found that the irony of this article can be summed up in one very small section. In the section asking if introverts are arrogant, Rauch almost immediately leads off by saying something along the lines of, no we are just more intelligent than everyone else. I believe that most readers and audiences could clearly see that this article is written by someone who is very biased on the matter and makes very little to no attempt at masking his bias.