Do you agree or disagree that Italians are louder??

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SailorAnxious@reddit

I know it’s a misconception but I truly believe people closer to equator are just more emotional and show it🤷🏻‍♀️

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iamdanchiv@reddit

Shocked the UK isn't all black. W/e I'm traveling, I can hear them way before I can see them. Doesn't matter the country where they are encountered.

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Alarming_Yogurt4002@reddit

Cause when they are travelling theyre always drunk

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StamatisTzantopoulos@reddit

As a Greek I can confirm that Italians are way more louder than us

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Ok-Lunch-9945@reddit

Turkey Albania, and bosnia, need to be black, otherwise the data is obviously scewed

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Orangenunchako@reddit

As a german: Loudest people are Desert people from Syria, Arabia, Lebanon... And Ukrainians...

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Smooth_Commercial363@reddit

Pole here: Ukrainians are loud as fuck, on the par with young Spaniards.

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pinkyelloworange@reddit

Italians are the loudest for sure. I’m Romanian but am comfortable with Spanish levels of loudness but Italians are loud even for me. (it’s a happy loud so I’m not too bothered)

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Illustrious-Tea-8771@reddit

Us Mediterraneans are just naturally loud

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svxae@reddit

underdeveloped countries are louder. also noise brings down efficiency in whatever the hell you are doing

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It depends. Southern european are much more social then northern. I could go days in summer without talking even going out for groceries. In southern cities i had to greet even strangers sitting on their house doors. Personally big dinner/lunches are unsustainable in the south

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Ok_Requirement4352@reddit

as i see from the map, the norther you get the quiet. I guess because is cold and your neck will hurt xD

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Tasty_Bath_5897@reddit

Nothing beats Americans in that regard though, especially obnoxious American tourists.

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Defiant-Dare1223@reddit

I don't think Americans are that loud at all.

Somewhere in the middle.

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chriszenpaok@reddit

North England quieter than South England? ❌❌❌

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Defiant-Dare1223@reddit

I would definitely agree with that as a Brit who has lived in both places.

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JuniorBedroom5473@reddit

Scotland has to be black, 100% louder than Italians

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Defiant-Dare1223@reddit

Only when they are drunk.

Admittedly that's most of the time

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Soggy-Clock457@reddit

Wow, Finns are quiet? I have a completely different image.

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-statix_@reddit

they are like us swedes, don’t talk in public unless they are drunk.

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gagalin@reddit

Why are you people like that?

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-statix_@reddit

we prefer peace and quiet when going about our day. don’t speak if you don’t actually have something to say. anything else is impolite. old nordic virtue.

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Soggy-Clock457@reddit

I have a completely different experience, they are polite and kind but loud. I mean family people in the middle of the day

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TvojaMamica1994@reddit

🗣🤌🤌🤌📢🔊🔊🔊

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No-District2404@reddit

Once we were eating in a restaurant and there was a table with around 10 Spanish people it was a small restaurant and we were very close to them believe me at some point we had to shout each other to hear ourselves and I downloaded quickly a decibel meter application the loudness was around 80-90 db. We are also loud (Greeks) but Spaniards and Italians are next level man

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gagalin@reddit

Nothing can be louder than a group of Spaniards. Turk speaking.

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

At least Spaniards aren't that close to us. /j

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Constant-Twist530@reddit

Yep, we aren’t nearly as loud as Italians and Spaniards for that matter. Maybe Greeks, but the rest of the Balkan nations aren’t even close to ever being as annoying as Italians 💀

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eusuntdimitri@reddit

Im half Italian half Romanian how loud does that make me 🤔

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Wise-Intention-5550@reddit

Albanians, Croats & Serbs are exceptionally more annoying than Italians in my experience. Yeah Italians are loud & overly passionate but they usually don't mean any harm by it. It's might be Italians addiction to caffeine & cigarettes that makes them loud 😂...but besides the older ones, Young albos, Serbs, Craots can be real asswipes when they want to be. Don't mean to offend bc assholes exist everywhere. But just my experience.

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BetterProphet5585@reddit

Now now now, loud doesn't mean annoying

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Pale-Specific-5565@reddit

Croats are pretty loud

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Red_Lola_@reddit

I am impressed at how accurate this is for Croatia, all three shades are so correctly placed

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Adorable-Ad-1180@reddit

It's acccurate for Serbia too. Uzice the loudest city in Serbia you can hear them from Belgrade

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BetterProphet5585@reddit

I am Italian and I agree, I'm considered quiet in Italy but really I'm not. I think it has to do with the culture, job and lowkey buildings. Like you can't order a coffee if you don't double your voice volume, same goes for 50% of the restaurants, then don't mention walking in the city centre, stations and similar.

You are trained to be loud to survive.

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Scary-Description780@reddit

Thank you for that excellent insight. Quick scenario: you’re on a small boat full of Japanese people departing from Hiroshima with two other Italian fiends. Question is this: how hard would it be for the three of you to speak sotto voce given how quiet the Japanese are when on public transport?

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BetterProphet5585@reddit

I really can’t expect you to not judge all Italians based on those two people… but to answer your question:

Very hard but it depends, I can speak for my friends group only but we can usually adapt after a while. If it has been a couple of days, it’s very hard.

It’s not the lack of situational awareness, it’s literally factory settings, you might think they’re loud while they’re already lowering their volume.

Also, and I expect downvotes, unfortunately it depends a lot on the region. Southerns are much louder and having southern origins, I honestly like it, but I understand that without context they’re just annoying.

It’s basically like asking a Japanese to be loud h24 and expect it to be natural, it would be hard.

Just a side note, as an Italian I can assure you we’re not the loudest, maybe the southern are the loudest in EU but compared to the whole world, I can’t really bring up too many examples without sounding racist.

I live near Florence, the Chinese tourists would scream between a classical music concert or have a loud call inside a church. Just to name one.

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HotMeal32@reddit

I always thought that my Dalmatian family is extremely loud. Some of us even had a nicknames meaning something like loud-y loud-ie until I worked as a receptionist during a summer season on a popular Croatian island.

Italians are loud as f*ck!! You can hear group of them coming from the three streets away. They are yelling, clapping hands, singing loud if they are tipsy or drunk, shouting and screaming. But they were never rude unlike some other nations so being that loud is not annoying as one might think.

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

Curious how this loud-y loud-ie is sounding in your language.

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HotMeal32@reddit

Zjale- from word zjati which means shout. I never heard that word anywhere else expect in my region.

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

Zjae is used in some parts of Bulgaria for shouting.

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NitkoBitan@reddit

My wife calls me “Trubilo” like a carhorn and a person. North adriatic croatia, but i admit to have spanish and italian ancestry. Maybe just the voicebox is set up that way.

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

Trubilo is somehow understandable.

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lucyland@reddit

Splićani give my Hercegovci a run for the money, volume-wise. (And I’m married to an incredibly loud Sarajevan).

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Wise-Intention-5550@reddit

I'm Italian and yes Italians probably are the loudest especially southern Italians. But most of the time they mean no harm by it aside from the few that are assholes 😂..we are passionate people and consume alot of coffee and cigarettes so maybe that makes it worse 😂. And also atleast in my experience we grow up in families where we can't get a word in without a parent or siblings interrupting us so we unfortunately get used to shouting sometimes so ppl can hear us out. But like I said we don't mean anything by it even though I'll admit it is annoying lol

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ardit33@reddit

Italians, especially southern Italians are obnoxiously loud. Very annoying. Northern Italians are more chill.

Also, southern Spain is not that loud. Folks in Barcelona were pretty chill, and in Valencia the only loud folks were British tourists being annoying as usual.

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Scary-Description780@reddit

We were in a lounge at Buenos Aires airport recently. Had to move to the other end of the room after three middle aged Italian (professional looking) gentlemen arrived as the noise level increased exponentially. I can’t be certain but as they were all AC Milan fans, I doubt they were from Calabria.

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Scary-Description780@reddit

We were in a lounge at Buenos Aires airport recently. Had to move to the other end of the room after three middle aged Italian (professional looking) gentlemen arrived as the noise level increased exponentially. I can’t be certain but as they were all AC Milan fans, I doubt they were from Calabria.

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Scary-Description780@reddit

We were in a lounge at Buenos Aires airport recently. Had to move to the other end of the room after three middle aged Italian (professional looking) gentlemen arrived as the noise level increased exponentially. I can’t be certain but as they were all AC Milan fans, I doubt they were from Calabria.

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Substratas@reddit

Italians, especially southern Italians are obnoxiously loud. Very annoying. Northern Italians are more chill.

Also, southern Spain is not that loud. Folks in Barcelona were pretty chill, and in Valencia the only loud folks were British tourists being annoying as usual.

I double this. I didn’t experience the monstrousity of Sicily in Malaga. Sicilians SCREAM when they talk.

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Tre-k899@reddit

If you stay in a Hotel, English and Ruskey Er the worst in manners. Italians can be loud yes, but they are not rude.

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Scary-Description780@reddit

Being loud is rude. No matter how you cut it. I’ve recently been on busses, boats, trains, airport lounges and could not help feeling resentful after being subjected to the Italian megaphone treatment.

It caused me not only auditory discomfort but also raised blood pressure. I say this as someone who loves Italy’s contribution to European culture.

I don’t know what the solution is but just feel that one should allow context to inform their behaviour or else you come across as entirely uninterested in others’ wellbeing.

To avoid singling out Italians, it’s worth saying that our Spanish friends are not too far behind.

What I don’t know is whether in both instances there are socioeconomic differences that impact volume levels or is everyone, regardless of their social strata, simply louder?

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Correct_Ad3125@reddit

In the midle 😁

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PaleManufacturer9018@reddit

I am from North Italy so I have a clear view of the loudness levels around me. And I had a lot of experiences during the university years. Southern Italians and Spaniards are the loudest, with southern Italian being the most powerful human megaphones you'll never hear in your life. To my standards they are really too much; Spaniards they tend to be very (very fucken) loud when in group. Greeks are quite ok, little loud but ok. Btw also the French are quite loud but acceptable. To my standards I find southern Germany ok, and northern to be really quite. British people are also kinda loud btw.

I remember some Finnish students that barely even talk to anyone at the campus. Absurd and sad.

Basically the loudness in southern EU is not related to rudeness, just annoying (to me), but can be funny sometimes.

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Aegeansunset12@reddit

Russians are not quiet

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theDivic@reddit

I beg to disagree.

I had the same opinion before, based on encounters with drunk Russian tourists. But in the last few years Russians in Belgrade opened up a bunch of restaurants, coffeehouses etc and I am always surprised when I visit how quiet everyone is and usually they speak quietly or even whisper while they are at the table.

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samir_saritoglu@reddit

Mostly, they are quiet. Till they get some alcohol

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Equivalent_Range6291@reddit

Dead ones? ..

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Equivalent_Range6291@reddit

Dead ones are ..

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AndyBlayaOverload@reddit

Light pink = goated areas

Opinion I will take to the grave

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Withering_to_Death@reddit

Loud ≠ rude loud

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Money-University4481@reddit

I have never heard louder people then the ones in Mostar.

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lucyland@reddit

Mostar should definitely be in black.

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lucyland@reddit

HAVE YOU EVER MET A HERZEGOVINIAN?!?!

I say this as a half-Herzegovinian.

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PurifyingElemental@reddit

Romanians should be dark red. Not only they spew the shitties takes when they sit at a café, but they are loud AF.

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

We have nothing to Italians in that case.

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Nedisi@reddit

You honestly don’t. They literally scream at each other till their voice gives out. Bulgarians are normal loud, this is next level.

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Equivalent_Range6291@reddit

Looks about right ..

Dubliners are noisy fuckers the opposite of the rest of Ireland.

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H_nography@reddit

I'd say Romanians are quieter than Moldovans & Ukrainians.

Postsoviets think it way more normal to yell in public even if by general volume they're quieter. Esp from the West of Romania prople call me loud all the time.

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MyPlantsDieSometimes@reddit

Italians have a naturally occuring megaphone built into their voice box. Can confirm as I study anatomy and live with an Italian

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FuoriDallaMiaPalude@reddit

Holy shit maybe I am not Italian after all. Everyone keeps telling me to yell more cause I speak too quietly (I speak in normal volume)

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MyPlantsDieSometimes@reddit

You may be suffering from chronic north Italianess. I am sorry there is no cure 😁

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sxy_nurse@reddit

Yeah they basically have a mutation at their vocal cords

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itsmike_b@reddit

I know Italians have 0.03% of the land in Balkans, it’d be more accurate to visit r/askswiss

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PensionOld5768@reddit

Russians quiet 😂😂😂

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NinjaDickhead@reddit

Please, i live in Romania, don’t make this a competition, please?

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Playful-Falcon-6243@reddit

I have never encountered louder people than the spanish. Even Americans are less quiet.

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Travelmusicman35@reddit

Americans aren't even that loud. They strike me as some of tbe quietest perhaps in response to the stereotypes that claim otherwise.

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PanzerFoster@reddit

Any of these areas become dark red as soon as the British show up

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Travelmusicman35@reddit

Serbia needs to be closer to black and Roma there would be off the charts.

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IndependentSpot5936@reddit

Russians are not quiet people,lol

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Quiet-Pressure4920@reddit

I thought Balkan people were loud, until I stepped into an Italian pizzeria in Belgrade owned by Italians with 90% italian guests.

The shouting competition was insane lol. I felt like I magically tuened into a Swede

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Perfect-Ad-9071@reddit

Standing at the peer in Greece waiting for island ferries next to a very large group of Italians. Yes, they were incredibly loud! And that is saying a lot around Greeks

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egeorgak12@reddit

Yes. Greek here. Even I am shocked at how loud Italians are lol. It's not even close. Nobody compares to them.

But they are loud in a happy way. Not fighting and swearing and bring drunk, but being happy.

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Nixodian@reddit

And the funny part is that the loudest ones in the louder countries are the tourists that come from the quieter countries

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OnkelMickwald@reddit

I have always wondered wtf this map is based upon.

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User20242024@reddit

In the case of Yugoslavia, Macedonians are not so loud as represented here, by my opinion.

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Vast-Ad-8961@reddit

Spanish louder!

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National_Pay_5847@reddit

Idk but my head was banging when I went to Ibiza and Sevilla. People are loud as fuck. I’m polish just for the context

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0xPianist@reddit

Along with some Spanish - deafening.

👉👉

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n_o_r_s_e@reddit

In Norway we have an expression: "Sinna som en tyrker" (Meaning: angry as a Turk). We find this expression in old literature that's written more than a hundred years ago, so it's a well established opinion that Turks are associated with angry people. So they would also qualify as being loud. Some Greeks are pretty loud, and starts shouting when talking. Spanish women are pretty crazy. Stayed a place in Spain a few years ago where a Spanish woman shouted outside at her man for nine hours nonstop, from the late evening until the early morning. The man was rather quiet. Several neighbours had heard the quarrel. The security guard asked the next morning if we had heard anything, as he'd been told about the event. He asked who these people were and if the man or the woman did the shouting. He said if it was the woman that was shouting at the man then they were Spanish. Italians are loud for sure as well. Especially when one car crash into another at a parking spot in Rome. Have seen that happening. Then you know that you're in Italy...

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Mestintrela@reddit

All the Spaniards I met and when I was in Spain, they were the same as Greeks. Maybe because they were group of international students?

I think the younger generations of Greeks are a bit quieter than the older ones.

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Dry-Piano-8177@reddit

There is a difference between Portugese and Spanish people?

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Mestintrela@reddit

Yes definitely that.

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vaskopopa@reddit

This shows my family from Belgrade and Zagreb (who literally speak over each other and only consider the loudest argument as valid) to be quieter than my wife’s English family. Hahaha, I have to keep this map. Love it.

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freeturk51@reddit

Dunno about italians but I have some spanish floormates. I practically cannot use the shared kitchen because those motherfuckers cannot do anything alone, everything they do, they do it with a 10-15 person group and absolutely trash the kitchen. Like, dude, cooking something and eating it is a fairly clean 45 minute process and you turned into a 4 hour hell where no one else can use the kitchen, god I hate south european social culture. I want everyone to adapt to Northern standards, keep shit to yourself, this introvert guy doesnt have to get sucked into your mini party just because he wants to cook microwave pizza

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idders@reddit

Indians are the same way. Cleaning up after themselves is a foreign concept. They're very loud on top of that. You can also add stinky food polluting the rest of the house for good.

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EKrug_02_22@reddit

They are so quite, they don't even call you for the dinner lol.

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VeterinarianSoft1336@reddit

I’ve been to Croatian/Italian wedding and I swear Southern Italians nearly made me deaf, especially because I really hate when somebody is loud…

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dsotiw@reddit

North eastern orcs are not quite

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Vihruska@reddit

Luxembourg needs to be black on this map. The locals are insanely loud, and I'm saying this as a daughter of a Northerner/Balkans mountains father who could talk to other people across the mountain hills 😁.

Although they are not that many, you can always spot them in a café or restaurant. When you add the Italian and Portuguese immigration, and you can imagine the result 🤭.

I'm amazed at how calm and quiet Bulgarian people and cities are every time I get back 😁. That's something I never expected to experience when I moved.

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Substratas@reddit

Luxembourg needs to be black on this map. The locals are insanely loud, and I'm saying this as a daughter of a Northerner/Balkans mountains father who could talk to other people across the mountain hills.

They’re black with a Q, though.

https://i.redd.it/2hjzkmwibm4f1.gif

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dcdemirarslan@reddit

Italians are the worst. Specifically the southern ones. Northern ones tend to be dead inside, let alone speak loud.

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Substratas@reddit

Yes, they are the worst.

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Background_Bar7535@reddit

I need me a scandinavian girl

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

How wise of you!

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casstax96@reddit

As a Norwegian I can confirm that Italian tourists are loud. I can't hear my own thoughts when I'm in the store.

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

Poor you! We at least have some training down there in South.

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QuickExtension3610@reddit

I am an emigrant to Slovenia, now citizen, and when moving I have always made sure that there were Slovenian surnames above and bellow me as I really appreciate peace and quiet. If I saw surnames like mine I passed :).

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RegionSignificant977@reddit

You know your people! Nice strategy!

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Lupitolupato@reddit

Croatia: I’ll take one of each, thank you.

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bggalfromsofia@reddit

Oh yes

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mountainslav@reddit

This is a map of eye colour or something similar edited for loudness

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TemporaryReward1000@reddit

I grew up in Cyprus and we fucken scream 😆

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-ratapaloma@reddit

What’s going on in Friesland?

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Redditater_3003@reddit

Dutch are the loudest!

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ArtichokeOk1113@reddit

I veneti urlano sempre bestemmioni

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ImNagatoPain@reddit

I know 10 extremely loud people, and they're all my Italian friend.

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BabylonianWeeb@reddit

I guess you never met an Arab.

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Andrea__88@reddit

I’m Italian, I often ask myself if us as Italians are considered louder in which scale could they measure Arab people? Today I was at pool, there was silence from my POV (obviously I know that for the rest of Europe was not), three Arab guys entered in the room and started to play in water screaming, and I asked myself the exact same question I wrote.

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Creepy_Parfait4404@reddit

Not even close

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ImNagatoPain@reddit

I have, surprisingly, they're not as annoyingly obnoxious in being loud as a silly handed Italian megaphone.

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krgor@reddit

I know 5 loud people and the Italian is 3 of them.

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ImNagatoPain@reddit

Italian proximity isn't measured by how many meters they're away from you, it's measured by decibels.

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omerfaro@reddit

In Nordic nations people see each other and run away as fast as possible just in case someone tries to ask” what time is it “

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TheSamuil@reddit

I don't want to be associated with the D*tch.

P.S. Sorry for the swear word

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Hot-Measurement243@reddit

Dutch

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Necessary_Taro9012@reddit

At least you're not B*lgian.

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ImNagatoPain@reddit

I'm fucked then...

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mspaceman@reddit

Africans and neapolitans are the only ones I repeatedly hear screaming every single time they speak, especially on fucking public transport.

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PedroVilladelaCruz@reddit

Guys, why does nobody mention the Spanish? I've known many Italians but more Spaniards, and quite clearly the people from Spain tend to speak louder. Or I've just met the calm Italians because they are the ones who travel to Germany and Poland (which is where I met most of them). But I'd say the same about streetlife, at least the South of Spain is easily as loud as Italy.

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7am51N@reddit

I miss the noisy islands in central Europe.

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RealisticBox3665@reddit

ATENTIONEEEEE PICKPOCKET 🗣‼️

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mumei14@reddit

I think it is about being noisy not loud or quiet. Swedish for example don't talk a lot but they for sure speak loud.

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Zaharoplastio@reddit

As a quiet Greek, this stereotype is annoying.

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janesmex@reddit

I agree. Many of us aren’t that loud stereotype.

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Top-Occasion-2539@reddit

As Belarusian, I was surprised how loud Poles were when I had a trip to Greece

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NightZT@reddit

I once was on an Italian ferry and the noise level was insane. Random people shouting at each other and trying to be louder than their neighbor. On the contrary I once was in Maribor and everyone whispered. My friend and I felt ashamed if we accidentally talked to loud.

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Dumptruck_Tubes@reddit

I am American (part Italian, Romanian, Slovak/Hungarian and German married to Hispanic) and worked with an Italian, Spaniard, Turk, Brit and German.

The volume level was: my Hispanic father in law, then the Spaniard, then my wife, the Italian and German in close third/fourth, then the Brit, then the Turk, and then me who is American with more Slovak personality traits.

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Weflyatnight@reddit

Am Dutch happy I now know the Italians beat us.

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Best_Ad_5550@reddit

Why Ankara and Çankırı is louder?

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YamiRang@reddit

Whoever made this has never been anywhere near an Ukrainian. They're literally louder than an average Italian even when they talk normally. Once drunk, which is often, they get even louder.

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Thus-i-speak@reddit

WHAT DO YOU MEEAAAN THAT GREECE IS LOUD? EEEEEEE? MALAKAAAAA.

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fyate@reddit

i live in italy, those who make noise here are generally illegal immigrants

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Remote_Succotash@reddit

Portuguese people loud?!

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Nashud@reddit

Dear God I couldn't hear my own thoughts when I went to Spain. So far they are absolutely the loudest people I've met.

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victoriageras@reddit

Italians kind of burst, into screaming or being really loud. While I was on vacation there, I noticed that they started to talk calmly and then gradually the volume whould begin to elavate.

Greeks usually start loudly and gradually fade.

But yes, Italians seem to be louder than us.

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Wonderful_CG@reddit

The Spanish are the lowdest followed by Italians

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chooseauuusername@reddit

Met with arabs

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Typical_Glove_7680@reddit

I live in italy, they are among the loudest people in the world, even if they are close to each other still need to scream higher and higher… lol

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senna_bog_witch@reddit

Why is Greece not black?

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Stelist_Knicks@reddit

North Italians (Esp Milanese) are actually v quiet. It's the south that's a bit louder tbh. Napoli, Cagliari, etc.

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rumenastoenka@reddit

Yes. Almost as loud as Americans.

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caesarj12@reddit

At the beginning I thought we Albanians were the loudest bunch out there. Then I went to a traditional restaurant in Rome full of Italians where they served Trippa alla Romana. I am flabbergasted even today when I remember them interacting with each other. It was like a shouting contest lol

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GoHardLive@reddit

I was in Vienna and there was a group of Italians walking down the street and they could be heard two blocks away lmao

Also Israel has to be full black.

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iamveryhANGERian@reddit

Lived in Malta. Yes.