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I think this being loud is particularly ingrained on the US culture. I have to say, tourists from the US are notably loud on Argentina. We have a large amount o

by Fargren 14y ago

I think this being loud is particularly ingrained on the US culture. I have to say, tourists from the US are notably loud on Argentina. We have a large amount of tourists on Buenos Aires, but it's always the US accent you can hear all the way across a crowded train wagon or room. I can't imagine why that is.

DavidAdams 14y ago
I had some houseguests visiting from The Netherlands last night. I have never encountered louder talkers, even when we visited a nearby historic church and there was a rehearsal going on. I got a kick out of it, because I'm a notorious loud talker and my friends always give me a hard time about it.
shawn-butler 14y ago
Given our evolutionary history as a tribal species, perhaps the human brain and auditory system is predisposed for survival purposes to make it seem as though unfamiliar dialects/voices/sounds are louder than they actually are. Without taking an objective measure of the decibels involved you might just be giving in to a stereotype?
- Fargren 14y ago
  It is possible that it's some sort of auditory bias, but there's people from all over the world here (big tourist city and all), and it's almost always people form the US that I notice are loud. Even with the British, I can't normally hear them without being quite close, so it's not the language. Of course, I can't tell how many quiet Americans I've walked by without noticing because they are quiet.
  - newscasta 14y ago
    That's interesting, I've had the opposite experience, so I'm guessing it's a perception issue. I'm from Buenos Aires and currently live in New York, both loud cities. I find Argentine tourists around here are especially loud. Maybe I'm tuned to pick up my own accent, or maybe tourists are louder than locals? (the excitement of the new?) Or maybe, as you point out, we just don't notice the quiet ones and assume they are locals...
krzyk 14y ago
You probably never have encountered Italians :) When you hear loud voices in the bus here in Poland then you may be sure that they belong to them. English speaking (British and American accents) are second.
kragen 14y ago
I suspect that the US, including the upper class that can still afford jet air travel, contains more cultural diversity than most other countries, and what you're noticing is the outliers on the right side of the noisiness distribution. Me, I find Buenos Aires to be particularly loud, but it's only occasionally people (usually groups of cacerolaceros, other piqueteros, or football fans); mostly it's the huge superchargers on the buses, the garbage trucks, the pneumatic actuators on the buses without silencers installed, the motorcycles without mufflers installed, the cumbia villera from the cellphones, and so on. In fact, the only louder city I've ever traveled to was Lima.

by Fargren 14y ago

DavidAdams 14y ago

I had some houseguests visiting from The Netherlands last night. I have never encountered louder talkers, even when we visited a nearby historic church and there was a rehearsal going on. I got a kick out of it, because I'm a notorious loud talker and my friends always give me a hard time about it.

shawn-butler 14y ago

Given our evolutionary history as a tribal species, perhaps the human brain and auditory system is predisposed for survival purposes to make it seem as though unfamiliar dialects/voices/sounds are louder than they actually are. Without taking an objective measure of the decibels involved you might just be giving in to a stereotype?

Fargren 14y ago
It is possible that it's some sort of auditory bias, but there's people from all over the world here (big tourist city and all), and it's almost always people form the US that I notice are loud. Even with the British, I can't normally hear them without being quite close, so it's not the language. Of course, I can't tell how many quiet Americans I've walked by without noticing because they are quiet.
- newscasta 14y ago
  That's interesting, I've had the opposite experience, so I'm guessing it's a perception issue. I'm from Buenos Aires and currently live in New York, both loud cities. I find Argentine tourists around here are especially loud. Maybe I'm tuned to pick up my own accent, or maybe tourists are louder than locals? (the excitement of the new?) Or maybe, as you point out, we just don't notice the quiet ones and assume they are locals...

krzyk 14y ago

You probably never have encountered Italians :) When you hear loud voices in the bus here in Poland then you may be sure that they belong to them. English speaking (British and American accents) are second.

kragen 14y ago

I suspect that the US, including the upper class that can still afford jet air travel, contains more cultural diversity than most other countries, and what you're noticing is the outliers on the right side of the noisiness distribution. Me, I find Buenos Aires to be particularly loud, but it's only occasionally people (usually groups of cacerolaceros, other piqueteros, or football fans); mostly it's the huge superchargers on the buses, the garbage trucks, the pneumatic actuators on the buses without silencers installed, the motorcycles without mufflers installed, the cumbia villera from the cellphones, and so on. In fact, the only louder city I've ever traveled to was Lima.