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European children are quieter because demographically there are fewer children, meaning that children will be more likely to interact with an adult than with ot
by partycoder 10y ago
European children are quieter because demographically there are fewer children, meaning that children will be more likely to interact with an adult than with other children.
Adults do not like unquiet children, so they become conditioned to be more quiet.
- blowski 10y agoMy anecdotal experience is that families, instead of having a uniform distribution, tend to concentrate in some places while avoiding others. In such places, children have an equal propensity to interact with another child as they do an adult. Of course, I have absolutely no idea whether this is true as I have zero data. I don't even know whether European children are more quiet, let alone all the other assumptions and assertions going on here. We live near to a school (in UK, just outside London), and the kids definitely don't use their "1 metre voices" during the lunchtime break.
- partycoder 10y agoHow about age difference with their parents? In developed countries people take more to get married and old people might not be all playful.
- blowski 10y agoWe can play at batting 'truthy' statements back to each other all day, but without evidence it's kind of pointless.
- coldtea 10y agoNo, that's not it. Children of the age we speak of are either at home, where there 0-2 other sibling children commonly, or at school, where there are many children (as many as would be in a US school). Nowhere the relative number of children in society comes into play here. It's not like 7 year olds play out in the streets of Paris and are told to be quiet, or they suddenly learn to be quiet when they visit e.g. restaurants. Plus Asian children are equally or more quite, even when there are tons of them. It's mostly about spoiling them and/or indulging them to whatever whim, rather than sssh them.
- thrownaway2424 10y agoI don't think that was the point of the article at all. In American playgrounds it is the adults who are speaking loudly, and the children learn that.