There were Americans staying down the street from me and the girl shouted she was in the shower. I was quite impressed how loud she was, I heard her half way down the road but I don't mind it and find it quite good.

should hear my house

HEY NOW BUDDY, JUST CALM DOWN.

the us is the latest subject of concerted global spying efforts, so sound conduction goes up when they're in a foreign space. this includes when a foreigner is in the area and observing proceedings.

other cultures have similarly strange 'foreign space' habits that aren't apparent until you've left the culture.

for some reason americans, from canada to chile, all have different flavors of conspicuous hearing impairment and inability to judge how loud their voice is, and their every effort to attenuate seemingly only increases sound conduction in air. like the attempts to correct are phasing the air somehow. each country in the region is subtly different though. columbians invert their relationship with plosives. venezuelans turn nasally. chileans have pitch droops. each one is corrected by volume increases or exacerbated by volume decreases.

it's different in europe. the french develop inexplicable conspicuous autism instead, for instance. germans lose the ability to evaluate guile. it's all very bizarre, and it doesn't happen in domestic situations.

the us deals with the issue by trying to have as many foreigners in as many situations as possible, to try and equalize the volume level via ubiquity. this invariably has the effect of putting a microphone up to all of its quiet power brokers, who seem unthinkably alien in comparison to this everpresent din. and who are usually some flavor of extremely weird such as racial supremacists or megalomania fascists; these individual strangenesses are what keeps them from fading into the background noise like everyone else, and it provides a plausibly deniable cover. they 'aren't actually a nail sticking out,' it 'just looks that way' because everyone is homogenizing themselves away from these opinions as loudly as they possibly can because the foreigness of the opinion causes the foreign observation problem.

If there's a lot of people talking in an enclosed space at once, I find that people tend to speak louder so that they can be heard by those they are talking to nearby, over the background noise of everyone else speaking? Depending on the context. If they're just being loud for the sake of being loud when all else is quiet... that's just ...

But idk it depends. There have been times where I was talking quietly to family around the table in a restaurant, they say something funny and dang, I can't help but laugh so loud I'm sure everyone in the restaurant heard me.. That's just how some Americans are I guess?

I'm not the type to speak loudly. I'm the type that you might actually end up telling me to speak louder lol

I've traveled the world. I know the American traveler stereotype, but I haven't witnessed it abroad.

The Chinese, on the other hand, are a sight to behold when they get off three massive busses and overwhelm a location.

Didn't you know? In our minds we are CELEBRITIES! We are PERFORMING! Narcissism is OUR THING! It's all we know, we don't have parents, we have Shows and cinema. Our role models are self-centered and obnoxious therefore that's what we emulate.

Very stereotype.

I see all types of more people taking selfies and harming the local flora and fauna.

Originally posted by Phénomènes Mystiques:

I see all types of more people taking selfies and harming the local flora and fauna. :badluck:

Whatever keeps them distracted, busy and NOT fighting with each other. No one of importance has time to care about their selfies. The fact that everything is FLOODED with trivial junk who cares to sift through it other than investigators?

Originally posted by Doctor Go-Go:

Originally posted by Phénomènes Mystiques:

I see all types of more people taking selfies and harming the local flora and fauna. :badluck:

Whatever keeps them distracted, busy and NOT fighting with each other. No one of importance has time to care about their selfies. The fact that everything is FLOODED with trivial junk who cares to sift through it other than investigators?

The bunda are a nation unto themselves legally, and their twist manifests as believing they are the only ones who investigate things, or the only ones who do so as thoroughly.

So they tend to believe they are benefitting the most from this ubiquity of observation, even though the fact they can't see they aren't means they aren't.

other investigative cultures have similar issues preventing them from seeing that this methodology actually degrades the value of their skills.

Not América exclusive...

You started this threat earlier and didnt like the answer you got, where people correctly defended Americans by pointing out several countries try way too hard to NOT be heard in any circumstances. combine cramped conditions, mumbling people, and heavy background noise you have to yell to beard period.

I'm calling this thread what it is, spam.

Originally posted by Candyy ♡:

Not América exclusive...

True

it makes sense if the person has a hearing issue.

people spontaneously manifesting hearing or speaking problems depending on the hidden context of who's watching doesn't make sense, and confuses everyone.