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.
Most Americans cannot afford to spend big on Transatlantic vacations. So the loud people are most often people in a certain income bracket & higher who are just mannerless in the first place. These are also the people who get pissed off that (insert country here) is not speaking English to them.
America has a reputation, and not just as vacationers, for doing everything over the top and at high volume. Just listen to people when you are out.