I just went to a restaurant yesterday and there was a couple from the US sitting behind us and they were so loud, they were even starting conversations with people on the adjacent tables, one of them were German (I think) and pretended not to speak English, and kept bothering everyone next to them.
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tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 days ago
Americans are mostly super loud. You can hear them from forever away like they're competing to be the loudest in any space. ~ someone originally from the US that had this pointed out to me.
hushable@lemmy.world 3 days ago
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m not that bothered about loud Americans. Italians are worse.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My friend, I’ll refer you to map #14, which holds true. There’s also a billion people living south of these maps who I can tell you from experience, make most Americans seem demure.
zout@fedia.io 3 days ago
Whomever made that map has never met someone from Amsterdam.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 days ago
Sure. The post asked specifically about Americans and, perhaps by virtue of living in East Asia, I haven't run into that many loud Europeans lately.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My point is that there’s a lot of loud people in the world. Really, most of the world is loud and only has an outdoor voice. I can hear my neighbors talking to her grandkids in her yard, 15 meters away, on the other side of a hedge and trees, with all the doors and windows closed in my house. There’s no change when she’s talking to me 1 meter away. I’m convinced it’s that a lot places like parties with deafening loud music and everyone has undiagnosed hearing damage.
Stereotypes sort of rely on the stereotype being at least somewhat unique. Might as well say Americans eat bland food and ignore all the other places that also eat relatively bland food.
However, congratulations on never having been besieged by Russian tourists.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 days ago
I met one really drunk Russian guy years ago, but the bar was so loud everyone basically had to yell so I can't really count it