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(04-19-2018, 09:05 AM)GMDino Wrote: Italians aren't the loudest?  I come from a large Italian family...we are ALL loud when we get together.  Sunday dinner, weddings, funerals...it doesn't matter.  It gets loud.

Sure, Italians make a lot of noise, and don't get me started about slavic people on the phone with their relatives. The whole town can hear. Americans can't compete with a lot of folk regarding pure decibel values, the Italians probably amongst them.

Italians and most others just often have the distinct advantage of us not understanding what they say, so there's often the assumption that everything is hilarious and/or heart-warming or at least super important. An advantage Americans don't always get. I suppose loudness only gets an issue if there's some additional annoyance connected to it, like understanding what is shouted.