I read people say online that Americans are loud. What does this mean, exactly? Is it literal volume or is it our personality/presentation? Something else?
I may be moving to Australia because of my wife’s job, and I want to better understand this. I want to assimilate and I don’t want to be annoying. I’m personally pretty low key and listen more than speak, but this is my perception of myself.
I want to reply with a joke about how America is a big country and people need to talk louder because of it, but you raise a very good question.
I would venture a guess that your suggestion about the space being bigger and people having to project their voices as a possible reason.
It’s entirely possible. Or maybe we’re so fat that we have to work harder to speak and thus we get louder? 🤣🤣🤣