Loud American tourists
Why do Americans tourists speak so loudly when visiting other countries?
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SandWitch · 26-30, F
I was born and raised in Sweden and I travel the world a lot on business. What I find with humans is that we tend to be attracted to things that are like ourselves, rather than be attracted to our opposite.
For example, if people from various Nations are on a guided tour together, people from the same country will tend to migrate toward each other and join each other at a dinner table. It's not the commonality of language that attracts us to each other, it's commonality of familiar sameness that attracts people of a country to other people of that same country while traveling abroad.
When it comes to American tourists, it's the same thing. Americans tend to be attracted to other Americans in a tour group, despite neither group of Americans previously knowing each other. Everyone in the tour group from different Nations can all be speaking English, yet commonality of language clearly isn't the attraction. The attraction is familiarity of sameness, meaning Americans tend to be attracted to people who remind them of themselves, which of course are only other Americans!
The fact that Americans make loud tourists is part of this unconscious equation, yet I've come to observe that loudness among Americans even while on their own turf is an American trait that's shared among Americans in general.
Therefore when Americans travel abroad, their apparent loudness is more like a mating call to other Americans, than it is an act of self-importance and perceived obnoxious behavior as viewed by other people from different Nations.
For example, if people from various Nations are on a guided tour together, people from the same country will tend to migrate toward each other and join each other at a dinner table. It's not the commonality of language that attracts us to each other, it's commonality of familiar sameness that attracts people of a country to other people of that same country while traveling abroad.
When it comes to American tourists, it's the same thing. Americans tend to be attracted to other Americans in a tour group, despite neither group of Americans previously knowing each other. Everyone in the tour group from different Nations can all be speaking English, yet commonality of language clearly isn't the attraction. The attraction is familiarity of sameness, meaning Americans tend to be attracted to people who remind them of themselves, which of course are only other Americans!
The fact that Americans make loud tourists is part of this unconscious equation, yet I've come to observe that loudness among Americans even while on their own turf is an American trait that's shared among Americans in general.
Therefore when Americans travel abroad, their apparent loudness is more like a mating call to other Americans, than it is an act of self-importance and perceived obnoxious behavior as viewed by other people from different Nations.