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This was really frustrating until I learned it was just the conversation style and I just had to adopt it. I still find it very exhausting, since I essentially have to force myself to be what to me feels unreasonably aggressive.
But what you describe is not unusual for extroverts. Some seem to need to work out their thoughts by speaking them aloud. I have known one or two whose procedure seemed to be to say something and hope that it made sense.
Are Americans in general more extroverted? I don't know, having lived mostly among native Americans, with a sprinkling of immigrants, all my life. I will say that there are large regional differences within the US. A saleswoman at a dealership in central Pennsylvania once unnerved me by saying nothing for a minute or two: in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, auto sales personnel do not like dead air.