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Q: Bloated voice, yeah?
You've heard this in Chinese films where the guy is trying to sound artificially loud. Almost like they're yelling from the roof of their mouth. But you can especially hear it in restaurants and when someone is on the phone, both situations, trying to sound important.
5 years 49 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
65 years of slogans shouting makes Jack and Jill a _________ (fill in the blanks)...https://www.chinasmack.com/65-years-of-chinese-national-political-slogans-reactions This is also how most Chinese learn about logical thinking and open-mindedness, like the North Koreans. 
I've always considered Chinese as partially deaf 'cause of all the screaming while they talk ... all of them.
I heard (get it? heard,, heard,,, haha,, jeez, I'm funny,,, make way Mr Pryor) that they yell to one another as a by-product of the conditioning that occured through eons of lifetimes spent in the agriculture field. My understanding is that in the 'field environment' the inhabitants were typically several meters distant one from the other so it became both necessary and commonplace to raise the decibel level of one's voice while attempting to communicate with the other.
Compounded by other factors as well- one factor may well be that the tonal nature of the language requires an increase in decibal output to register/communicate the tonal shift.
ok,,,, sorry for the boring explanation. now let's go for the funny,,,,,,,, haha,,, is there anything funnier than two ayi's standing around in the courtyard yelling at each other. Funny thing is, as distasteful as it may come across to us, they seem to enjoy it!
65 years of slogans shouting makes Jack and Jill a _________ (fill in the blanks)...https://www.chinasmack.com/65-years-of-chinese-national-political-slogans-reactions This is also how most Chinese learn about logical thinking and open-mindedness, like the North Koreans.
Talking about cruelty and interrogation. Only Winning Matters. No Means Unacceptable. No Universal Values. No God Whatsoever. Jack and Jill, We Love Our Country, We Use Rods.
Some practical questions for 2018, "with the trade war and militarization of those South China Sea islands, what is going to happen? What about the Chinese property bubble should anything nasty happen, then after that........? There is nothing new under the sun. This one is not a slogan.
It's because ancient Chinese opera made people think that is a sophisticated way to talk, kind of like how modern day British English is a result of the aristocracy speaking like a whiny projectile vomit in order to put down the common people .
ciac:
You don't see Taiwanese guys and girls screaming at the top of their lungs when they speak Mandarin, or HKers (Cantonese opera). I am afraid Chinese opera can't explain this.
hi2u:
My answer was only half serious, but for consideration:
Have you ever been to HK? Cantonese is much louder than Mandarin. As for Taiwan, the people have already been civilized by the Japanese and further back by the Dutch. Also the mainland people who fled to Taiwan were generally more educated than the ones who stayed behind.
