I've lived all over the world and I suspect it's a class thing. Downtown Chicago people tend to talk over you nonstop with no regard for courtesy. Where I've be

I've lived all over the world and I suspect it's a class thing. Downtown Chicago people tend to talk over you nonstop with no regard for courtesy. Where I've been in France and the rest of Europe, it's more what you'd expect (a pause). In my rural midwestern working class background there tends to be a pause, we didn't talk over one another. My wife's family is from Guadalajara, were privately schooled and in the Mexican government's "political class", they don't interrupt. It's ingrained in me enough that if someone talks over me, I'll just stop talking to them and subconsciously consider them to have a low standard of manners.