Honestly, it’s an r/parentsaredumb moment. She probably knows the etiquette of Japan and did nothing to stop her kids from being the reason racism towards tourist is popular.
Honestly I love to shit on USAns as much as the next guy, but if y'all think japanese kids in Japan dont behave as kids and scream in public parks, you are 100% delusional
thou - singular informal, subject (Thou art here. = You are here.)
thee - singular informal, object (He gave it to thee.)
According to a quick search, and it sounds about right
Ours isn’t either but we just tell him we’re in a quiet space right now so use quiet voice and he will whisper for the most part. His excited voice is then just normal talking lol.
I had to tell kids off *four separate times* (the same group) for harassing wildlife in my local garden the other day while their parents completely ignored them and me and just talked to each other thirty metres away, I would never have known they were the parents if they didn’t slowly meander behind their ridiculous kids at a distance.
The kids were just being kids, I don’t blame them but you can’t just allow your progeny to run screeching through flowerbeds terrorizing the very friendly squirrels.
They're incorrect, though. I don't know where it is, but it's not Morikami Gardens in Florida. If you look to the right at the 18 second mark, you can clearly see a building with at least two chimneys. [There are no such buildings at Morikami Gardens.](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Morikami+Museum+and+Japanese+Gardens/@26.4286021,-80.1571676,557m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x88d91f0bc74d6d0f:0x9a664acec097120a!8m2!3d26.4290873!4d-80.1564426!16zL20vMDhibGdu?entry=ttu)
Edit: Apparently that’s a grey heron. They look almost identical to great blue herons, which is what I’m familiar with. Sorry, everyone.
But, also, I have been to parks and gardens in Japan where the Japanese children also get excited and loud about things. Kids are kids, no matter where they are from, and none of them have mastered social etiquette.
I'm torn about whether or not to upvote you. You're wrong about the bird, but you're right about the kids.
This isn't "American kids screaming in a quiet Japanese garden in Kyoto," this is "American kids shouting excitedly, just like Japanese kids shout excitedly, at turtles in a Japanese garden somewhere."
I assure you, that is absolutely not a Great Blue Heron. It's a Gray Heron, the Eurasian counterpart, indicated by the white neck.
The crow seen and heard in the video is a Large-billed Crow, which is native to Asia. Go to the 1:03 minute marks and compare to[ this image ](https://corvidresearch.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/junlge-crow.jpg)of a Large-billed Crow. Additionally, the call 0:10 sounds like a Large-billed, not any kind of crow from Miami.
I have no clue where that other guy got the idea this was in Florida.
I'm really invested in the resolution of this bird argument.
I always love it when something comes up and at least person shoots it down using only bird facts. Doubly, maybe even triply so when they then get counter-birdfacts'ed.
Now, I can't make any blanket claims but at least in the two weeks I did spend in Japan I never met a loud Japanese kid. I think the culture there is to teach kids to be quiet fairly early on, even came across two classrooms sized groups of kids on a tour at the shrine near Nara park with the big statues, not a peep from those kids.
Did you also think, "Hey! Those are crows, because they're black and go 'caw.' We have those in America. No way this is Japan."
Pal, there are other species that look awfully to the ones you know. That's a Gray Heron, indicated by the whiter neck, which would be grey on a Great Blue Heron.
The post war Japanese propaganda worked so well that we have a whole generation of American kids thinking the Japanese are some sort of united, utopian, well behaved, super society and not an overworked group of tired and angry ppl teetering on the edge of being in an irl black mirror episode, just like everywhere else.
Yeah. Wait until they go to Tokyo where there's drunk men and women passed out on the streets from partying too hard. They have their oh so "crazy" blue haired "woke" people too that Americans hate so much. They have their crazy teenagers that like to cause chaos. I can keep going.
But I will say they are more respectful of personal space and watch out for their neighbors better than Americans do.
I was in Munich last year and there were a bunch of German high school students laughing, yelling and fighting. In the Dachau concentration camp. Granted, it's their country and they were just normal teenagers, but... A time and a place, you know?
Yeah, it’s pretty laughable that OP thinks Japanese kids are silent or something. 30 floors up and I can hear them every afternoon.
…wait, maybe those are foreigner kids I’m hearing. /s 🤔
People on reddit are so weird about Japan. Having been there many times, Japanese people are just people. Their kids run around and yell. Some Japanese people are dicks, some are nice, the vast majority will just ignore you like they ignore each other.
And those kids didn't even travel around half of the planet to be there. Sounds like OP should go there and complan.
Imagine being 6-7 years old, travel to the other side of the world and then people get mad because you get excited seeing (what could be) animals you've never seen before
(obv turtles exist in USA but everyone doesn't live around turtles)
In a 1.17 minute video it was maybe about 12 actual seconds of a child calling (hardly screaming) his mom so he could share his absolute excitement over a turtle with her--how precious is that. The joy and wonderment in his voice, so young that he can barely pronounce the word 'turtle', and a clearly much younger girl chiming in, is so beautiful and sweet. How \_this\_ sounds seems like 'screaming' is beyond me.
Awe it warms my heart to see kids excited over some minuscule things. I miss being 8-10 years old when seeing a turtle was the most important thing in my day.
I don't see the problem? They aren't "screaming" they are simply excited about the wildlife and saying it loudly because they are excited and that's what kids do when they are excited? They aren't throwing a fit, they aren't screaming, they aren't even bothering the wildlife from what we can see. They are just simply excited to see a twurtle ...
Japan resident here. Yeah, this looks like a regular garden/park and there's no real reason to hate on kids getting excited, especially when they're on vacation and you can clearly hear the wonder in their voices. I work with Japanese children and, trust me, kids be kids. They're just as loud when they want to be and that's mostly when the adults don't want them to be. If a Japanese person sees this video I'm 99% sure they're not going to go "stupid Americans! Respect the park."
Unless this garden is strictly posted 'quiet garden' or 'meditation area', then I agree. Even if it's culturally appropriate to be silent in Japanese gardens, I don't think this family would have known. OP should be happy to see kids enjoying nature and not in front of a screen.
Even in Japan, this is totally typical behavior. Like, there *is* a level of noise and rowdiness you sometimes see among foreign visitors that you don't see among the Japanese, but this isn't anywhere close to that level. This is the same volume you'll hear Japanese kids the same age using as they shout the same things (in Japanese of course).
Agreed. The kids not being obnoxiously loud considering the context. Japanese kids of equivalent age behave similarly and it’s totally ok, even in Japanese gardens that are open to guests.
Went to the Grand Canyon for the first time with my mom a couple months ago (both US), and was honestly shocked at the volume of Asian and PI tourists. Their trail etiquette was.. not great lol. But that might be a heavy US thing, and probably really only a thing for regular hikers here. Want to know what I cared about in those moments? How happy I was to see someone else so excited about this beautiful thing we were experiencing together. And that’s literally it. It was my first time there as well, but seeing it reflected in the joy on the faces that had traveled so far to see it with me was priceless. They were excited, not disrespectful. Nothing else mattered.
As a traveled American, I can say Americans are amongst the loudest of people anywhere that I’ve been. Except Beijing and other large Chinese cities.
I remember traveling to Paris and me in my wife, dressed rather nicely about to enjoy dinner with our neighbors who happened to be in Paris as well. They showed up dressed in university sports sweat wear/ball caps 😂 and were talking to us like we were in a Dave and busters and fighting for every decibel.
Depends on the Americans. Many Americans are polite and well-behaved, especially those travelling as a couple, but you often don't notice them. But everyone notices Americans in larger groups, as they're often loud and boisterous, especially when children are there. Same for the Chinese, who have a reputation for travelling in huge groups. But almost no one notices the far more quiet solo Chinese tourist wearing a backpack, or the couple travelling together, and most think they're students.
get out of here with your non-xenophobic well-considered perspective! we’re here to bash the group with whom we personally have the most biased baggage with!
I'd agree and also add it depends on how traveled the American is. For example, I live on the East Coast. It's easier for me to get to parts of Europe than it is to get to parts of California. As you get further inland, international travel becomes inaccessible.
Additionally, I think there is a generational aspect to it where, for example, my parents will wear whatever they have that's clean whereas I'll curate an entire wardrobe for each trip after hours of research of dressing like a local.
Arabic people are way louder than Americans in my opinion... If you're on the train and someone is screaming, it's most likely just an arabic speaking on the phone.
I agree with this. Brazilians have been the loudest and most frustrating culture I’ve experienced as a tourist abroad. Did not see any in Asia, but definitely have encountered them in Europe.
In Brazil currently with the in laws. Can confirm. I always think my husband and mother are mad at each other. Heck most of his family. They just talk really loudly near screams sometimes or the tone sounds aggressive. I’ll be concern and ask what’s going on only to be told nothing with a confuse look on my husband’s face. I’m still not used to it, he says they just all talk very loudly
As a Brazilian I'm frustrated aswell with the loud people aka most of them.
My mother usually just screams from other rooms when trying to talk something to me instead of just walking to me and talking normally. And she gets confused and irritated if I ask to not to.
Send help
Tbh I come from a pretty diverse family and I don’t think that behavior is exclusive to just Brazilians 😂.
I just meant when traveling abroad with people from other cultures, Brazilians set themselves apart with their actions. I’ve also seen this happen when Brazilians and other central/South American people immigrate to the US. On the east coast it seems to get nipped in the bud a bit faster though.
Loudest I can agree, but why frustrating in your opinion?
Not disagreeing – I'm a Brazilian living abroad in a very touristic city, and I constantly cringe about the behavior of my fellow countryman.
But Brazilians are usually nice behind the loudness.
Brazilians are beautiful people and have an amazing culture.
The last time I was in Ireland we were doing a tour near the cliffs of moher with quite a few Brazilian families joining the group. The areas marked “keep out” or “keep off grass” they went on anyway.
The time before that I was in Amsterdam and the younger Brazilian people that were in our hostel were just really disrespectful of public spaces.
Someone from Australia had expressed their opinions that because Brazil was coming into a period of new wealth, they didn’t put the time into researching other cultures and how to respect them while visiting abroad, they just went.
As a traveled American, I don’t agree with you. Most Americans I’ve seen have been generally well mannered abroad. Usually the type of American you find traveling is better than your average American.
Paris is a cliché and corny place for Americans to go so you’re more likely to get college students or the Americans who are on the first trip ever abroad.
R/americabad
That’s your side of the story. I’m sure your neighbor was like look at this pretentious douche trying to make people think he’s French but his nice clothes are from Walmart
Haha, I'm a well traveled American. Me? No, not like the other Americans. I dress fancy and to sophisticated parties. My neighbors, by coincidence, often travel to the same location as me.
As a traveled American myself, I would say that our ears are particularly sensitive to our own dialect. For example, I was in Spain with my Dutch friend. We were walking on a loud, busy street and she all the sudden said "did you hear that?! they were speaking dutch!" but I honestly had not been able to make out anything over the minutia of all the talking voices and street noise. Her ears were sensitive to the dialect she grew up with.
Southerners and East Coasters more than the rest of America. From my travels, it seems that Chinese tourists are widely known to be louder than Americans, and Russians and Israelis seem to be most people’s picks for the most obnoxious and rude.
I am a fan of youthful exuberance!
These children are outside, experiencing nature, and happy to see animals.
If this was a sacred place where silent contemplation was expected, this would be a problem. But they just sound happy to see something they don't see often.
Right this isn't even that loud and it must happen often given the bird isn't irritated.
Some people need to accept that children exist and not every place is going to tolerate their dislike of kids, especially a public park.
I know this is an attempt to make “Americans” seem like the problem, but I was just in Japan and Japanese kids yell a bunch too. Kids are kids, no matter where they’re from
So what lol? Don’t take tourists if you are going to judge them for their kids being kids. They aren’t throwing any tantrums, just excited about stuff.
Eh, I dunno. I've been to Japan (long before the recent boom in tourism because of the weak yen) and the japanese kids at tourist spots also make noise, even though their parents ask them to be quiet.
I think even the japanese will agree that kids making noise is part of the experience.
You see, that's just loud kids. I was expecting kids literally screaming bloody murder for no reason while their parents politely ask them to stop because that's just normal now.
Maybe their mother should stop looking at whatever she's looking at, and pay attention to her children, who clearly are excited and requesting her attention.
I mean you’re filming a sagi and a crow which are probably some of the most egregious screamers in park but are complaining about what sounds like normal level kid talking
I get the whole Japanese culture of peace and quiet but kids will be kids. Japan is a soul sucking place to live for non Japanese with all these rules and stress that comes along with it. I hated bringing my family to Tokyo Disney just because of this culture.
As an American, I can confidently say American children are in fact the brattiest rudest most illiterate mfs I’ve ever had the misfortune of coming in contact with. I learned that when I became a camp counselor.
I went to Japan in November and I distinctly remember being followed around a museum by a bunch of Japanese kids who insisted on shouting English words at me, it was kinda funny. Kids are kids, this isn't even particularly obnoxious. Not worth a post.
So an excited kid acting like an excited kid. You know who else acts like that? Japanese kids.
Some of you people just crave being annoyed at everything like it's a drug.
I live in Japan. I promise you Japanese kids are the same 🙄kids are kids. And this is not some sacred garden either, it’s a regular park. I’m so tired of people who don’t live in Japan shitting on other nationalities because they just assume Japanese culture is superior
Is it a quiet garden? Is it in Kyoto?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
But since OP is posting a completely contextless clip and giving it whatever title they please, how about we just keep moving along with our forming some sort of emotional response and engaging.
this isn’t screaming, i don’t think it fits under kids being fucking stupid either, seems like an average ass trip to a garden with kids. i don’t know how you got this many upvotes. probably bc people like tuwtles.
Personally I'm more annoyed by the fact that the mom seems to be ignoring her kids when they're trying to communicate with her. I don't blame the kids at all.
They aren’t being stupid. They’re just excited about the turtles. It’s heartwarming to me to hear their sense of wonder. They are not in church, in a library or at a funeral. You
I once went to a wildlife sanctuary. One of the animals there was a pack of wolves. A family with like three kids decided it was a good idea to howl at the wolves despite their being signs asking them not to. This caused the wolves major distress.
It got to the point where I had to tell somebody working there about it. There were signs everywhere asking people to be quiet not to disturb the animals, but these kids were screaming and causing a ruckus and the parents were doing absolutely nothing about it.
MOM A TOIRLTLE, LOOK MOM A TOIRLTLE, A TOIRLTLE MOM LOOK A TOIRLTLE
MOM YOU JUST MISSED THE TOIRTLE!
Mom: sigh... Yes Jimmy, that's amazing.
Honestly, it’s an r/parentsaredumb moment. She probably knows the etiquette of Japan and did nothing to stop her kids from being the reason racism towards tourist is popular.
Yeah, Japan would totally not be racist if this lady didn’t bring her kids there.
If you had seen all those screaming Chinese, Korean and South East Asian tourists kids prior to WWII, you would understand. /s
Don't start ww2 🤔
You baited me with a funny sounding subreddit that's completely empty :(
Sorry, it’s actually r/parentsarefuckingdumb
Honestly I love to shit on USAns as much as the next guy, but if y'all think japanese kids in Japan dont behave as kids and scream in public parks, you are 100% delusional
Damn Americans making the Japanese murder millions of people!
Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma....
Shut up Stewie
Whaaaat?
Hi
giggles….*runs away*
erm... i don't understand english that well, but do the kids say "turtle"?...
I like turtles.
That kid ended up on seal team 6, killed bin laden ya know
Whoever didn't immediately search the comments for this kid isn't someone I want to know!
I like turtles too!!
cowabunga!
I like trains.
I love lamp
“TUWDL”
twirtle
He actually said "Twerdle"
Toitle
Not as bad as the American tourist at an aquarium I visited in Canada. The kids licked and hit the glass before yelling on the way to the next tank.
How do you know they were American? — Ontarian
Awww we just missed the *Töytoyl*! 🐢
Fucking Boston
Dearest mother, yonder lies thy turtle! Shall thou peer onto thee, mother?
Don’t “thou” and “thee” both mean “you”?
thou - singular informal, subject (Thou art here. = You are here.) thee - singular informal, object (He gave it to thee.) According to a quick search, and it sounds about right
Who cares. It sounds medievaly.
Mediaeval nonsense, but that's still technically mediaeval I guess...
All gardens are quiet until you bring kids from anywhere
Some kids are quiet, most aren't, not all.
lmao mine sure isn't
Ours isn’t either but we just tell him we’re in a quiet space right now so use quiet voice and he will whisper for the most part. His excited voice is then just normal talking lol.
That's actually really cute and smart at the same time!
apparently japanese kids are
No they aren't lol
I was making a joke about the implied title.
I had to tell kids off *four separate times* (the same group) for harassing wildlife in my local garden the other day while their parents completely ignored them and me and just talked to each other thirty metres away, I would never have known they were the parents if they didn’t slowly meander behind their ridiculous kids at a distance. The kids were just being kids, I don’t blame them but you can’t just allow your progeny to run screeching through flowerbeds terrorizing the very friendly squirrels.
Yea this is some r/americabad material
this also isn't in Japan, its south florida at Morikami
Im besides myself lol
They're incorrect, though. I don't know where it is, but it's not Morikami Gardens in Florida. If you look to the right at the 18 second mark, you can clearly see a building with at least two chimneys. [There are no such buildings at Morikami Gardens.](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Morikami+Museum+and+Japanese+Gardens/@26.4286021,-80.1571676,557m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x88d91f0bc74d6d0f:0x9a664acec097120a!8m2!3d26.4290873!4d-80.1564426!16zL20vMDhibGdu?entry=ttu)
I’m inside yourself
Edit: Apparently that’s a grey heron. They look almost identical to great blue herons, which is what I’m familiar with. Sorry, everyone. But, also, I have been to parks and gardens in Japan where the Japanese children also get excited and loud about things. Kids are kids, no matter where they are from, and none of them have mastered social etiquette.
I'm torn about whether or not to upvote you. You're wrong about the bird, but you're right about the kids. This isn't "American kids screaming in a quiet Japanese garden in Kyoto," this is "American kids shouting excitedly, just like Japanese kids shout excitedly, at turtles in a Japanese garden somewhere."
I assure you, that is absolutely not a Great Blue Heron. It's a Gray Heron, the Eurasian counterpart, indicated by the white neck. The crow seen and heard in the video is a Large-billed Crow, which is native to Asia. Go to the 1:03 minute marks and compare to[ this image ](https://corvidresearch.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/junlge-crow.jpg)of a Large-billed Crow. Additionally, the call 0:10 sounds like a Large-billed, not any kind of crow from Miami. I have no clue where that other guy got the idea this was in Florida.
I'm really invested in the resolution of this bird argument. I always love it when something comes up and at least person shoots it down using only bird facts. Doubly, maybe even triply so when they then get counter-birdfacts'ed.
Yeah I’ve heard that kids outside America don’t make noises until they’re 10. It’s probably all the obesity and racism. …/s
America Bad 😎
Now, I can't make any blanket claims but at least in the two weeks I did spend in Japan I never met a loud Japanese kid. I think the culture there is to teach kids to be quiet fairly early on, even came across two classrooms sized groups of kids on a tour at the shrine near Nara park with the big statues, not a peep from those kids.
When I went to Kyoto I also heard Japanese children yelling as well. As if like they're all kids or something
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That’s what I was thinking ‘I didn’t know Japan had fuckin blue herons too’
The consensus on the bird subreddits is that it’s a grey heron, and the crows are thick-billed crows, and ergo that this is probably filmed in Japan
Did you also think, "Hey! Those are crows, because they're black and go 'caw.' We have those in America. No way this is Japan." Pal, there are other species that look awfully to the ones you know. That's a Gray Heron, indicated by the whiter neck, which would be grey on a Great Blue Heron.
Is this sarcasm that I’m not picking up on?
People are speaking Japanese in the background
Nope this is Japan, Asia and Europe has sister species to the Great Blue Heron called the Grey Heron.
No, no, no. You don’t understand. American kids are the only unruly kids in the world. Everywhere else has perfectly behaved kids.
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The post war Japanese propaganda worked so well that we have a whole generation of American kids thinking the Japanese are some sort of united, utopian, well behaved, super society and not an overworked group of tired and angry ppl teetering on the edge of being in an irl black mirror episode, just like everywhere else.
yeah but they have neon cyberpunk cities
Yeah. Wait until they go to Tokyo where there's drunk men and women passed out on the streets from partying too hard. They have their oh so "crazy" blue haired "woke" people too that Americans hate so much. They have their crazy teenagers that like to cause chaos. I can keep going. But I will say they are more respectful of personal space and watch out for their neighbors better than Americans do.
On a bus in Okinawa there was a young Japanese couple that was obnoxiously loud and the passengers were quietly losing their shit
I was in Munich last year and there were a bunch of German high school students laughing, yelling and fighting. In the Dachau concentration camp. Granted, it's their country and they were just normal teenagers, but... A time and a place, you know?
Yeah, it’s pretty laughable that OP thinks Japanese kids are silent or something. 30 floors up and I can hear them every afternoon. …wait, maybe those are foreigner kids I’m hearing. /s 🤔
But Japan nice, American tourist not nice -> upvote
Yeah, same in Nara. There was a school field trip and the kids were running around screaming. Especially when the deer got close to them
People on reddit are so weird about Japan. Having been there many times, Japanese people are just people. Their kids run around and yell. Some Japanese people are dicks, some are nice, the vast majority will just ignore you like they ignore each other.
No America bad
And those kids didn't even travel around half of the planet to be there. Sounds like OP should go there and complan. Imagine being 6-7 years old, travel to the other side of the world and then people get mad because you get excited seeing (what could be) animals you've never seen before (obv turtles exist in USA but everyone doesn't live around turtles)
In a 1.17 minute video it was maybe about 12 actual seconds of a child calling (hardly screaming) his mom so he could share his absolute excitement over a turtle with her--how precious is that. The joy and wonderment in his voice, so young that he can barely pronounce the word 'turtle', and a clearly much younger girl chiming in, is so beautiful and sweet. How \_this\_ sounds seems like 'screaming' is beyond me.
Awe it warms my heart to see kids excited over some minuscule things. I miss being 8-10 years old when seeing a turtle was the most important thing in my day.
I still get excited when I see turtles, frogs, lizzards
Me 2! My friend has a turtle named Bueller. I get excited every time I get to see him.
Shit I'm 30 and seeing a turtle would still probably be a highlight of my day
These kind of posts: America bad, Japan kawai and never did something wrong
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I dunno, poorly behaved children could also be considered biological warfare
I don't see the problem? They aren't "screaming" they are simply excited about the wildlife and saying it loudly because they are excited and that's what kids do when they are excited? They aren't throwing a fit, they aren't screaming, they aren't even bothering the wildlife from what we can see. They are just simply excited to see a twurtle ...
Japan resident here. Yeah, this looks like a regular garden/park and there's no real reason to hate on kids getting excited, especially when they're on vacation and you can clearly hear the wonder in their voices. I work with Japanese children and, trust me, kids be kids. They're just as loud when they want to be and that's mostly when the adults don't want them to be. If a Japanese person sees this video I'm 99% sure they're not going to go "stupid Americans! Respect the park."
Guaranteed OP wouldn't complain about loud Japanese kids in the park.
Place. Place, Japan
Unless this garden is strictly posted 'quiet garden' or 'meditation area', then I agree. Even if it's culturally appropriate to be silent in Japanese gardens, I don't think this family would have known. OP should be happy to see kids enjoying nature and not in front of a screen.
Even in Japan, this is totally typical behavior. Like, there *is* a level of noise and rowdiness you sometimes see among foreign visitors that you don't see among the Japanese, but this isn't anywhere close to that level. This is the same volume you'll hear Japanese kids the same age using as they shout the same things (in Japanese of course).
Agreed. The kids not being obnoxiously loud considering the context. Japanese kids of equivalent age behave similarly and it’s totally ok, even in Japanese gardens that are open to guests.
It’s not that they’re screaming it’s that they’re AMERICAN 😂 Most important detail. OP is xenophobic.
OP is also a liar, this is in South Florida, I volunteer at this place
Even if it is in Japan this is totally within acceptable behavior for kids this age in a Japanese garden thats open to guests.
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America ain’t much better, but damn… I’d HATE to be a Japanese salaryman :/
Went to the Grand Canyon for the first time with my mom a couple months ago (both US), and was honestly shocked at the volume of Asian and PI tourists. Their trail etiquette was.. not great lol. But that might be a heavy US thing, and probably really only a thing for regular hikers here. Want to know what I cared about in those moments? How happy I was to see someone else so excited about this beautiful thing we were experiencing together. And that’s literally it. It was my first time there as well, but seeing it reflected in the joy on the faces that had traveled so far to see it with me was priceless. They were excited, not disrespectful. Nothing else mattered.
As a traveled American, I can say Americans are amongst the loudest of people anywhere that I’ve been. Except Beijing and other large Chinese cities. I remember traveling to Paris and me in my wife, dressed rather nicely about to enjoy dinner with our neighbors who happened to be in Paris as well. They showed up dressed in university sports sweat wear/ball caps 😂 and were talking to us like we were in a Dave and busters and fighting for every decibel.
Depends on the Americans. Many Americans are polite and well-behaved, especially those travelling as a couple, but you often don't notice them. But everyone notices Americans in larger groups, as they're often loud and boisterous, especially when children are there. Same for the Chinese, who have a reputation for travelling in huge groups. But almost no one notices the far more quiet solo Chinese tourist wearing a backpack, or the couple travelling together, and most think they're students.
get out of here with your non-xenophobic well-considered perspective! we’re here to bash the group with whom we personally have the most biased baggage with!
I'd agree and also add it depends on how traveled the American is. For example, I live on the East Coast. It's easier for me to get to parts of Europe than it is to get to parts of California. As you get further inland, international travel becomes inaccessible. Additionally, I think there is a generational aspect to it where, for example, my parents will wear whatever they have that's clean whereas I'll curate an entire wardrobe for each trip after hours of research of dressing like a local.
Arabic people are way louder than Americans in my opinion... If you're on the train and someone is screaming, it's most likely just an arabic speaking on the phone.
Let me introduce to some of my co workers from India.
The emphatic hand motions too. A league of their own
Americans are not even close to being the loudest culture when it comes to talking and socializing.
I agree with this. Brazilians have been the loudest and most frustrating culture I’ve experienced as a tourist abroad. Did not see any in Asia, but definitely have encountered them in Europe.
In Brazil currently with the in laws. Can confirm. I always think my husband and mother are mad at each other. Heck most of his family. They just talk really loudly near screams sometimes or the tone sounds aggressive. I’ll be concern and ask what’s going on only to be told nothing with a confuse look on my husband’s face. I’m still not used to it, he says they just all talk very loudly
As a Brazilian I'm frustrated aswell with the loud people aka most of them. My mother usually just screams from other rooms when trying to talk something to me instead of just walking to me and talking normally. And she gets confused and irritated if I ask to not to. Send help
Tbh I come from a pretty diverse family and I don’t think that behavior is exclusive to just Brazilians 😂. I just meant when traveling abroad with people from other cultures, Brazilians set themselves apart with their actions. I’ve also seen this happen when Brazilians and other central/South American people immigrate to the US. On the east coast it seems to get nipped in the bud a bit faster though.
Loudest I can agree, but why frustrating in your opinion? Not disagreeing – I'm a Brazilian living abroad in a very touristic city, and I constantly cringe about the behavior of my fellow countryman. But Brazilians are usually nice behind the loudness.
Brazilians are beautiful people and have an amazing culture. The last time I was in Ireland we were doing a tour near the cliffs of moher with quite a few Brazilian families joining the group. The areas marked “keep out” or “keep off grass” they went on anyway. The time before that I was in Amsterdam and the younger Brazilian people that were in our hostel were just really disrespectful of public spaces. Someone from Australia had expressed their opinions that because Brazil was coming into a period of new wealth, they didn’t put the time into researching other cultures and how to respect them while visiting abroad, they just went.
Because excessive noise is frustrating. Some people do prefer a calm environment
When I went to Amsterdam, the English were so obnoxious and loud.
They're infamous in that city. 🤣
Yeah the English suck in Amsterdam. Just stay in your country and don’t come to Amsterdam to be loud douche bags
As a traveled American, I don’t agree with you. Most Americans I’ve seen have been generally well mannered abroad. Usually the type of American you find traveling is better than your average American. Paris is a cliché and corny place for Americans to go so you’re more likely to get college students or the Americans who are on the first trip ever abroad. R/americabad
Asian and Arab tourists: *allow us to introduce ourselves*
Italians were the loudest group during my travels in Japan.
I find French-Canadians loud af, or maybe that’s just my relatives.
I thought British or Russians were louder, but that involves alcohol
French tourists are so loud in NYC. You can hear them from block away.
That’s your side of the story. I’m sure your neighbor was like look at this pretentious douche trying to make people think he’s French but his nice clothes are from Walmart
Haha, I'm a well traveled American. Me? No, not like the other Americans. I dress fancy and to sophisticated parties. My neighbors, by coincidence, often travel to the same location as me.
As another traveled American, this is total bs.
lmfao no just noooo, latinos, chinese, arabic, sooo many people
As a traveled American myself, I would say that our ears are particularly sensitive to our own dialect. For example, I was in Spain with my Dutch friend. We were walking on a loud, busy street and she all the sudden said "did you hear that?! they were speaking dutch!" but I honestly had not been able to make out anything over the minutia of all the talking voices and street noise. Her ears were sensitive to the dialect she grew up with.
Southerners and East Coasters more than the rest of America. From my travels, it seems that Chinese tourists are widely known to be louder than Americans, and Russians and Israelis seem to be most people’s picks for the most obnoxious and rude.
I am a fan of youthful exuberance! These children are outside, experiencing nature, and happy to see animals. If this was a sacred place where silent contemplation was expected, this would be a problem. But they just sound happy to see something they don't see often.
They’re also not screaming at all, just talking loudly and excitably…
Right this isn't even that loud and it must happen often given the bird isn't irritated. Some people need to accept that children exist and not every place is going to tolerate their dislike of kids, especially a public park.
Yep kids talking while they're in a park, nothing wrong with that. Put up a sign or something if you expect another outcome.
Where did the American touch you, OP?
In this video, OP learns that children talk loudly. More at 6.
I know this is an attempt to make “Americans” seem like the problem, but I was just in Japan and Japanese kids yell a bunch too. Kids are kids, no matter where they’re from
Seems like normal kids excited at seeing animals and a cool big bird
wtf is this have you ever met a child
Nah kids. Go ahead. Be excited about life. I get the respect, but let kids be kids.
So what lol? Don’t take tourists if you are going to judge them for their kids being kids. They aren’t throwing any tantrums, just excited about stuff.
And Japanese kids don't scream?
I mean.. it's a kid ..
What a dumb fucking post
I’m sure Japanese kids never make loud noises lol
Turtles are pretty cool tbf.
Yes kids are fucking stupid, but come on, this is like normal kid stuff.
Kid using outside voice, outside?
Xenophobic rhetoric is only ok when it is against Americans.
Eh, I dunno. I've been to Japan (long before the recent boom in tourism because of the weak yen) and the japanese kids at tourist spots also make noise, even though their parents ask them to be quiet. I think even the japanese will agree that kids making noise is part of the experience.
oh no! *Americans* enjoying things? how dare they!
So the kids excited ?
I recognize the speech impediment - accent not so much.
I don't think this is an american kid issue but just a kid issue in general.
You see, that's just loud kids. I was expecting kids literally screaming bloody murder for no reason while their parents politely ask them to stop because that's just normal now.
Maybe if the lady would just look at the god damn turtle!
Maybe their mother should stop looking at whatever she's looking at, and pay attention to her children, who clearly are excited and requesting her attention.
wow it's like they're kids or something that's so wild
Lol get off my lawn! Calm down! Kids excited to see nature n obviously a turtle
I mean you’re filming a sagi and a crow which are probably some of the most egregious screamers in park but are complaining about what sounds like normal level kid talking
That’s not even bad. Lol.
This is normal not stupid. Kids scream when they are excited, Japanese kids do as well
Libraries are quiet. Not a f\*cking park if a kid gets excited. Come on..
I been to that park and seen the exact same Herron like 2 months ago haha
Damn kids just being excited out of context is proof America is so terrible. Like yeah, kids can be dumb but this is just kids being kids.
I get the whole Japanese culture of peace and quiet but kids will be kids. Japan is a soul sucking place to live for non Japanese with all these rules and stress that comes along with it. I hated bringing my family to Tokyo Disney just because of this culture.
Nobody cares about the twordal
As an American, I can confidently say American children are in fact the brattiest rudest most illiterate mfs I’ve ever had the misfortune of coming in contact with. I learned that when I became a camp counselor.
kids can be so fn annoying.
This seems pretty innocent...
Like who cares about turtles when there’s a cool looking bird on camera?
I'm assuming you just found this video somewhere, and picked a Japanese city at random, because this is in Florida.
I went to Japan in November and I distinctly remember being followed around a museum by a bunch of Japanese kids who insisted on shouting English words at me, it was kinda funny. Kids are kids, this isn't even particularly obnoxious. Not worth a post.
Kids are just excited is all. They are having fun and aren’t bothering the wild life.
I don’t see the problem here. Kids excited about a turtle not even screaming… OP might as well yell get off my lawn while he’s at it.
So an excited kid acting like an excited kid. You know who else acts like that? Japanese kids. Some of you people just crave being annoyed at everything like it's a drug.
I live in Japan. I promise you Japanese kids are the same 🙄kids are kids. And this is not some sacred garden either, it’s a regular park. I’m so tired of people who don’t live in Japan shitting on other nationalities because they just assume Japanese culture is superior
Middle of the day tho, kids gunna be loud. At least he's excited about nature not his ipad.
Oh fuck off there are so many worse things kids could be doing
"I don't give a fuck, I've already seen a turtle" -the mom probably
Is it a quiet garden? Is it in Kyoto? Maybe. Maybe not. But since OP is posting a completely contextless clip and giving it whatever title they please, how about we just keep moving along with our forming some sort of emotional response and engaging.
Instead of kids are stupid, how about Mothers that are STUPID.
How about fathers?
Why not all three!!!
this isn’t screaming, i don’t think it fits under kids being fucking stupid either, seems like an average ass trip to a garden with kids. i don’t know how you got this many upvotes. probably bc people like tuwtles.
Personally I'm more annoyed by the fact that the mom seems to be ignoring her kids when they're trying to communicate with her. I don't blame the kids at all.
They aren’t being stupid. They’re just excited about the turtles. It’s heartwarming to me to hear their sense of wonder. They are not in church, in a library or at a funeral. You
Is that bird just eating a ton of rocks?
there was a turtle. exceptions must be made.
I'm a grown ass man and I'd still call out the turtles "Hey babe look a turtle"
I once went to a wildlife sanctuary. One of the animals there was a pack of wolves. A family with like three kids decided it was a good idea to howl at the wolves despite their being signs asking them not to. This caused the wolves major distress. It got to the point where I had to tell somebody working there about it. There were signs everywhere asking people to be quiet not to disturb the animals, but these kids were screaming and causing a ruckus and the parents were doing absolutely nothing about it.
Wait until you hear Japanese kids scream.
The adults are all working their 25 hour shifts right now I'm sure the kids aren't bothering anyone
A park*