mostly , chinese people are shy, hmm, it s depends on our Education, Home Tutoring, and mainsteam thinking, perhaps after read about some the doctrine of Confucius and Mencius, u can find u answer,

也许并不是害羞，而是不知道该说些什么， 汗╮(￣▽￣")╭

Sometimes feel hard to express. Listening is much easier than speaking.

I think it depends on people，u shouldn't say chinese are shy. sometimes they maybe dona know how to reply u ,didn't know their reply ,wheather it will hurt you or not.so they choose keep slience.It's only my opinion.

i guess this translation software is not that accurate ^_^ 惰性means lazy, i think it should be conservative, to this question, i hold the opinion that even some westerns r shy and formality, that's different from people to people