I'm from Italy, from Rome, now living in Milan. Romans are generally louder then people from Milan, but often foreigners are louder than us, especially South A

I'm from Italy, from Rome, now living in Milan. Romans are generally louder then people from Milan, but often foreigners are louder than us, especially South Americans and Americans (from USA). On the contrary, Chinese and northern African are quiter. French sound nicher to many, so they usually don't notice their loudness, but in my experience they usually make more noise than Italians, are more rude with the waiters and complain a lot. I think it all depends on the setup, Italian restaurant are usually family businesses, cheap enough that you could eat there everyday, where tables are mostly very close to one another, if you are too loud people at other tables can easily be annoyed by the noise, while French restaurant have more space between tables and they feel free to turn the volume up a bit and it becomes an habit. I am personally a very private person and I don't like being loud cause I don't want other people's to listen to what I'm saying, which is very easy if the other table is literally 50 cm away, and have developed an habit of being extremely quite, such as I have a very hard time having a normal conversation when I'm abroad and everyone scream (for my standards) It is true tough that we are famous for "making a scene" it's not uncommon to go to the restaurant and find a couple fighting loudly I put Italians in the middle of the bar, on average.