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DeLaRed
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 Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 11:41 pm Post subject: Why Americans have louder voices. |
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just to follow on from the hypocritical "Why Koreans have louder voices" thread....
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Every time I go out with my foreign buddies, I get nervous and uncomfortable with the loudness of their voices. Especially in restaurants.
Koreans tend to have places to be loud, and places to be noisy. There are way more noisy places than loud, of course, but it is obvious when you are in a quiet place. . |
Every time I go out with my foreign buddies, I get nervous and uncomfortable with the loudness of their voices. Especially in restaurants.
Americans tend to have places to be loud, and places to be noisy. There are way more noisy places than loud, of course, but it is obvious when you are in a quiet place.
Why do Americans have louder voices than many of their foreign counterparts? 
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Which kind of Americans? From which part? Which social class? Which race? |
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crescent
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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I dunno, but thanks to his extremely loud voice, I was able to know the entire biography of some American guy on date in a Deok'Galbi joint.
He bellowed his accomplishments over every other person in the packed restaurant. His poor date couldn't get a word in. I don't think his college life, bank teller experience, and fast learning ability impressed her at all. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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| DeLaRed wrote: |
just to follow on from the hypocritical "Why Koreans have louder voices" thread....
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Every time I go out with my foreign buddies, I get nervous and uncomfortable with the loudness of their voices. Especially in restaurants.
Koreans tend to have places to be loud, and places to be noisy. There are way more noisy places than loud, of course, but it is obvious when you are in a quiet place. . |
Every time I go out with my foreign buddies, I get nervous and uncomfortable with the loudness of their voices. Especially in restaurants.
Americans tend to have places to be loud, and places to be noisy. There are way more noisy places than loud, of course, but it is obvious when you are in a quiet place.
Why do Americans have louder voices than many of their foreign counterparts? |
I'm fairly sure the poster that started that thread is of British descent, and all except one of the posts mentioning Americans in that thread are people saying Americans are loud, with the one post defending Americans not saying anything about Koreans at all.
In short, the only hypocrisy I see here is yours. "Some British guy made fun of Koreans for having loud voices, so I'm going to bash America." Congratulations. |
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kiknkorea
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| I won't be bashing anyone, but I in my experience here the waygooks do stand out in public places when speaking. |
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murmanjake
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| kiknkorea wrote: |
| I won't be bashing anyone, but I in my experience here the waygooks do stand out in public places... |
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rollo
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| We Americans are bigger and stronger , our lung are more developed and our vocals cords are like made of steel. Other body parts are simarly over developed!!! |
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dirving
Joined: 19 Nov 2009
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:09 am Post subject: |
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| rollo wrote: |
| We Americans are bigger and stronger , our lung are more developed and our vocals cords are like made of steel. Other body parts are simarly over developed!!! |
You must be punished! |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| rollo wrote: |
| We Americans are bigger and stronger , our lung are more developed and our vocals cords are like made of steel. Other body parts are simarly over developed!!! |
And the edumakational system of Arkansas seems to be top notch.
Are you really a native speaker? |
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TheChingu
Joined: 08 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:45 am Post subject: |
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Could be cultural? I've never noticed Koreans speaking super loud and sometimes they can be hard to understand, especially when speaking English as they don't have complete confidence.
American culture teaches that It's very impolite to mumble and that to treat someone with respect and earn their respect that you need to speak in a "loud" (audible) and clear voice.
I don't know about you're experiences, some of the S.A. teacher's I have met here speak extremely quietly and some at what I consider a normal tone.
As far as your friend who embellishes all his accomplishments, every country has their idiots, don't judge a culture or country based on one person.
One of the first British guys I ever met was in the states and was a total douchebag, but I've met plenty of great English people since. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 5:46 am Post subject: |
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An American friend and colleague of mine is very warm-hearted and intelligent - and sadly extraordinarily loud.
With Americans, though, most of them find the minority of Americans who are extraordinarily loud embarrassing, whereas Koreans don't and for the most part are simply unaware of and immune to noise pollution. |
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AmericanExile
Joined: 04 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| kiknkorea wrote: |
| I won't be bashing anyone, but I in my experience here the waygooks do stand out in public places when speaking. |
Korean speaking voices and English speaking voices stand out from each other in contrast.
The loudest group of people I've heard in Korea outside of a sport stadium is a bus filled with middle school girls who just got out of school. Walking onto that bus was like getting hit by a sonic blast. My money says an American, British, German, Thai or Turkish school bus filled with teen girls will all be painfully loud.
I know it is hard for outsiders to understand. America is too big to generalize. |
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.38 Special
Joined: 08 Jul 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 5:56 am Post subject: |
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So I says to the guy, "That's not a horse! That's president Obama! HAHAHAHA!
Hi-larious!
Gee, I hope my font isn't slightly too large. I'd hate to be perceived as unnecessarily non-conforming to arbitrary limits on speaking volume held by some overly-sensitive "citizen of the world"....
Nah! Just kidding! Harharhar!
Ironically, I'm actually a mumbler in person. |
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The Happy Warrior
Joined: 10 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:03 am Post subject: |
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Americans have nothing on Chinese in terms of loudness at restaurants.
Also, I'm convinced the OP doesn't understand the meaning of the word 'hypocrisy.' |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
An American friend and colleague of mine is very warm-hearted and intelligent - and sadly extraordinarily loud.
With Americans, though, most of them find the minority of Americans who are extraordinarily loud embarrassing, whereas Koreans don't and for the most part are simply unaware of and immune to noise pollution. |
Not true from my experience. We were getting stared, frowned, groaned at all through our time at a restaurant when my American buddy was a bit drunk and very loud. I went to apologise to a guy who seemed to leave because of him and he just shook his head and put his hand in my face before storming out.
I think this is less of a culture thing than first perceived, really |
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