Are americans more outgoing/animated compared to Europe

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I'm just commenting on this ambivalent/positive stereotype mentioned sort of commonly, especially in comparing between people who originate from the US and Germany.

I've seen a couple of episodes of a tv show called House Hunters International set in the H&G Channel where an american couple travels around with a real estate agent in The UK or Western Europe, and in every one you can usually tell which ones are the americans even with the sound turned off. Here's an or the example of what I mean, that prompted to bring this up.

I don't mean to say that all or most people are typically like this in their respective countries, but it's not unusual or out of the ordinary, and I suspect that if you were switched them around they would be.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FEoDvJFVI80

Americans are expected to smile all the time & Europeans are not.

i've lived with americans all my life and i can confirm that lots of us are expected to smile and be real super outgoing. moodiness is looked down upon.

i really can't compare it however since i haven't been to europe yet.

Maybe us Americans are more outgoing...I live in the USA and I've had friends from France and the UK. They could be a little quiet, but they didn't seem very different from my American friends.

i grew up in a border town (across a big river from michigan) and yes, even without taking the accent into account (they had a markedly different accent from ours, though they were so close geographically), it was pretty much immediately apparent when you were dealing with an american--they tend to be louder, more effusive, more "assertive", and even gesticulate more than canadians. also, a lot of them seemed to be horrible drivers--either that, or when they came over they were so confused by our traffic signs (speed limits in km/h) they forgot how to drive. ...though that fails to explain why their driving was so horrible when we would visit them on their side of the border.