I read people say online that Americans are loud. What does this mean, exactly? Is it literal volume or is it our personality/presentation? Something else?

I may be moving to Australia because of my wife’s job, and I want to better understand this. I want to assimilate and I don’t want to be annoying. I’m personally pretty low key and listen more than speak, but this is my perception of myself.

  • sasquash@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    As European travelling in Asia at the moment, I notice this a lot.

    • Americans tend to speak louder, especially in groups
    • You seem to speak with deeper voices. But that could also be just my imagination.
    • You seem to speak more since you do a lot of small-talk. That’s something not so common in other countries.
    • And since many people speak English, maybe we just notice it more since we can understand it. When there are let’s say loud Chinese around, it’s more like a background noise.

    There are loud people from all countries, and Americans are at least pretty nice usually. But in my opinion it’s true, you are also louder than most.