When you need to describe your personality to strangers.... Is it socially acceptable to describe yourself as an honest/nice/good-natured person in the U.S.? For example, does this self-introduction sound normal? "I'm a nice person who likes to help others." Because if you said it to a Japanese person in Japanese, that would sound totally arrogant and self-affected. The person might be really a nice person, but in my country, it's really up to others to decide whether he/she is really nice or not. No one would proclaim themselves that way unless it's meant to make people laugh. Please explain what's up with the mentality behind it? Do people actually believe what they describe when they meet someone? Thank you all for your comments! I'm curius about the line bewteen confidence & arrogance. Is it different from country to country? Now I'd like to hear opinions from people in America because I often hear this kind of expression from Americans. Please explain me their cultural mentality. Thanks.