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’ve been told by non-Americans that Americans (myself included):
edit: since you mentioned Australia, I’ll point out that I’ve heard this primarily from European, Indian and Southeast Asian software developers I’ve worked with. I’ve worked with fewer Australians, and as far as I can recall we never discussed American stereotypes directly, but my impression is that they’re much closer to the US culturally, loudness / brashness-wise. Curious to hear from Aussies if you think my impression is correct.
There’s a whole wikipedia article about the “American lean.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_lean
American spies are trained not to do it.
That’s very funny. Has it really been a “thing” recently? I feel like it’s been years since I’ve heard someone mention it. Maybe it got subliminally resurfaced.
Almost all of the references on that wiki page are from the last couple of months - I assume it’s been trending on social media recently.
I definitely agree that many Americans butt in frequently. As someone that tends to be more of an observer, the moments I do talk o tend to get cut off and it’s annoying as absolute fuck.
I never thought about the leaning on things. I’m a bigger dude, which is probably mostly because of my poor choices, but I do know that I lean on things a lot to relieve stress on other body parts. That really comes down to needing to lose weight and lose my bad habits.
Thanks for this comment!