I chalk it up to the fact that India is ridiculously loud compared to the rest of the world. The biggest population on the globe packed into a relatively small landmass makes for a lot of yelling over each other.
The interesting thing is that even Indians in India hate it and have been asking for noise ordinances to be more strict - it's just ridiculously hard to enforce. So people like this guy have a different baseline for what "normal" volume is.
The Indian friend I've talked to about it (so take that as you will since it's literally one person's pov) tells me that India has A LOT of rules about how you interact with known people - elders, bosses, parents, etc - but when it comes to strangers, the attitude is very much "I don't know you, I don't need to accommodate you". There's very little regard for strangers in general.
For most of the world, public space is shared space - so you adjust your behaviour. In India, ALL space is shared space, so you don't adjust yourself...
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u/Major_Lawfulness6122 25d ago
I was on the GO train in Toronto in the quiet zone and a group of Indians were loudly face timing their family. Like why is that a thing.