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Ok, so Americans have a (justly deserved) reputation for being loud when we're drinking, and the Chinese get pretty rowdy at a dinner table. But also, whenever Chinese people in my office get together they converse at a pretty high decibel, wholly sober. So who wins the title for loudest in a group?
The "Ugly American" is a stereotype that refers to the loud, pushy, arrogant American tourists of previous generations. Modern American travellers, in my experience, are decent, civilised people. Well, all but two:
I was staying at a hotel not long after arriving in China. When I came downstairs in the morning, a young American couple was at the front desk. The receptionist spoke a little English, and they were asking her about Chinese tea.
American: I want to buy some Chinese tea. What kind should I buy?
Receptionist: There are many kinds. There is...
American: [puts his hand in front of the girl's face and clicks his fingers, in her face, repeatedly]
The correct response in this situation is "Go fuck yourself, American." Unfortunately the receptionist was really polite, and kept trying her best to give the stupid American helpful advice while he was being a rude prick.
Anyway, when I returned to the hotel that evening, the same couple was having a domestic tiff outside. The female American had lost something, and the male American was (still) being an asshole.
American: "I swear to gaaad, Sierra."
I found this quote funny and memorable because A) only an American would say this, B) only an American would be called "Sierra" (obviously her porn name), and C) the guy had a horrible, nasal, Californian accent.
That said, the most rancid foreigners I've seen were a Brit and and Australian in a hostel. They had the fronts of their track pants pulled down and tucked under their scrotums (underwear still on). They were chasing the middle-aged female cleaning staff in the hostel, and waving their dicks at them. I really hope they try that in an Islamic country, and the story will have a satisfactory conclusion.
In answer to your question - Mainland Chinese are far louder than any other type of people. The only reason is that they don't give a rats about other people (like arrogant drunk people don't). I was in HK two months ago, on an escalator in the metro. Despite more than 50 people being in the vicinity, the only thing that could be heard was one loud, obnoxious woman yelling on her phone in Putonghua. I was going down, and I saw the expression on the face of a well-dressed HK woman coming up on the adjacent escalator. Her look of utter exasperation and resignation perfectly encapsulated the cultural situation and fate of Hong Kong. Polite, sophisticated, educated first-world people being overrun by loud, impolite, dirty barbarians.
earthizen:
"Polite, sophisticated, educated first-world people being overrun by loud, impolite, dirty barbarians."
Should you understand the thoughts going on inside these barbarians' mind, including that yelling woman, even someone with your vocabulary would be lost for words; evil is simply beyond any human word can capture. You simply want to puke.
Mateusz:
Something to consider is to compare tourists to tourists, or natives to natives.
Tourists seem to often be worse behaved than residents back home, something about feeling the rules don't apply when you're not in your native country, especially when you're wealthy.
Chinese in China are easily the loudest.
Lord_hanson:
I like your final paragraph. It is a glimpse into the past. I was instantly transported back in time and witnessed the fall of the Roman Empire. Was this how they felt as the barbarians overran the once civilised provinces?
dude everyone is loud when they are drinking... alcohol effect, Chinese r just load at everything. Their way of simply speaking is outrageous .
The "Ugly American" is a stereotype that refers to the loud, pushy, arrogant American tourists of previous generations. Modern American travellers, in my experience, are decent, civilised people. Well, all but two:
I was staying at a hotel not long after arriving in China. When I came downstairs in the morning, a young American couple was at the front desk. The receptionist spoke a little English, and they were asking her about Chinese tea.
American: I want to buy some Chinese tea. What kind should I buy?
Receptionist: There are many kinds. There is...
American: [puts his hand in front of the girl's face and clicks his fingers, in her face, repeatedly]
The correct response in this situation is "Go fuck yourself, American." Unfortunately the receptionist was really polite, and kept trying her best to give the stupid American helpful advice while he was being a rude prick.
Anyway, when I returned to the hotel that evening, the same couple was having a domestic tiff outside. The female American had lost something, and the male American was (still) being an asshole.
American: "I swear to gaaad, Sierra."
I found this quote funny and memorable because A) only an American would say this, B) only an American would be called "Sierra" (obviously her porn name), and C) the guy had a horrible, nasal, Californian accent.
That said, the most rancid foreigners I've seen were a Brit and and Australian in a hostel. They had the fronts of their track pants pulled down and tucked under their scrotums (underwear still on). They were chasing the middle-aged female cleaning staff in the hostel, and waving their dicks at them. I really hope they try that in an Islamic country, and the story will have a satisfactory conclusion.
In answer to your question - Mainland Chinese are far louder than any other type of people. The only reason is that they don't give a rats about other people (like arrogant drunk people don't). I was in HK two months ago, on an escalator in the metro. Despite more than 50 people being in the vicinity, the only thing that could be heard was one loud, obnoxious woman yelling on her phone in Putonghua. I was going down, and I saw the expression on the face of a well-dressed HK woman coming up on the adjacent escalator. Her look of utter exasperation and resignation perfectly encapsulated the cultural situation and fate of Hong Kong. Polite, sophisticated, educated first-world people being overrun by loud, impolite, dirty barbarians.
earthizen:
"Polite, sophisticated, educated first-world people being overrun by loud, impolite, dirty barbarians."
Should you understand the thoughts going on inside these barbarians' mind, including that yelling woman, even someone with your vocabulary would be lost for words; evil is simply beyond any human word can capture. You simply want to puke.
Mateusz:
Something to consider is to compare tourists to tourists, or natives to natives.
Tourists seem to often be worse behaved than residents back home, something about feeling the rules don't apply when you're not in your native country, especially when you're wealthy.
Chinese in China are easily the loudest.
Lord_hanson:
I like your final paragraph. It is a glimpse into the past. I was instantly transported back in time and witnessed the fall of the Roman Empire. Was this how they felt as the barbarians overran the once civilised provinces?
For me, as a Scottish dude, my observation is this...
Loud Chinese in a bar... Annoying but I have no idea what they are saying, so easy to ignore.
Loud Americans in a bar... Annoying, even more so because I understand what they are saying.
Loud Scotspeople in bars... Annoying. But nobody can understand what we are saying
Some American tourists decades ago were loud, sure, but I would never use the word evil to describe them. China Mainlanders, on the other hand, is a completely different story.
In the entire history of USA, did Americans en masse ever torture fellow Americans, among them the best and brightest scholars by having them knelt on broken glasses, then walked on their knees on those broken glasses? Pretty creative, huh? Ask yourself, how twisted a mind has to be to come up with this kind of creativity?
With the liberation of slaves, did Lincoln have the slaves, who gleefully comply made the whites kneel on broken glasses, mentally tortured them to commit suicide and if that didn't work, beat them to death? 10 years, 5-8 million deaths. Yeah, right, "Chairman Mao made us did it". Highly creative excuse, huh? Doesn't that tell you what these 'people' were, and are, about? What about Japan? Did they learn to forgive?
Being loud is only the tip of the iceburg with China Mainlanders, you want to puke if you see what is underneath the water.