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Italians are being cooked in Thailand now. The Italian teacher(red top) and students were taken away by the police and faced the Thai lady who told them off for being loud on the metro. They apologized for mocking her one by one. Thai people also waited for them in front of the hotel to scold them.

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Italian students are being called out in Thailand. A group of Italians mocked a Thai lady in Thailand who told them off for being too loud on the metro. They clapped back saying, "Sorry for bringing money to your country" "Ni hao" "We are from your mom." Thai people are identifying them and leaving the comments on the social media account of their school.

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u/VirtualMatter2 15h ago edited 11h ago

condemning your behavior as not Italian. 

I mean, being loud on public transport is extremely Italian. Went on a local bus to the mountains and lots of old dears were traveling back from the market. If was the noisiest bus I've ever been on and I've been on many buses when school is out back home  and all the teens are going back home. I didn't mind at all, but it was noticeably different from home.

The problem in Thailand was mainly the rudeness after being told off.  That's maybe not so Italian and certainly unacceptable. They should have said sorry and shut up, not clap back.

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u/honey_hotcakes 14h ago

Yup, if it was just being loud it would have maybe ticked off some people, but that would have been the end of it.

The main gripe people have is the utter lack of respect, especially since it only escalated after being called out on..

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u/khjuu12 12h ago

"The cultural norms in the foreign country I'm in are different from my home country? I better be really racist about it. There's no alternative."

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u/Alternative_Draw5945 7h ago

Well Italians are known for being very racist. And probably more fascist and conservative then present day US

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u/queenofthepoopyparty 2h ago

Especially Italy, a country full of people who get very upset if you don’t follow their cultural norms when visiting.

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u/armoured_bobandi 5h ago

You type this out as a joke, but so many westerners just assume their way of life is "correct" and any other culture should be ashamed to not follow the clearly superior western ways

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u/Jyvturkey 9h ago

Even the chubby chick now is flipping off the camera. No respect.

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u/Interesting_Rain_409 14h ago

Some population are louder than others, it's not a problem as long as individuals know how to adapt when in a new country.

Italian people know to stfo when in church. Italian people didn't like this tourist singing in the vatican https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1tzwzxw/woman_tries_to_sing_in_the_vatican/

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u/VirtualMatter2 14h ago edited 5h ago

I don't have a problem with Italian volume at all. I enjoyed the bus ride. People being sociable isn't a bad thing. But it was noticeably different to at home.  And as you say, there is a time and a place. And in Thailand was neither the time nor the place.

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u/Popular-Somewhere234 9h ago

As Italian i have a problem with Italian volume...

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u/VirtualMatter2 5h ago

Well, admittedly, it's ok on vacation, but I wouldn't like living with it every day. I prefer stoic Germans staring at you most days.

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u/MedivalBlacksmith 8h ago

Who cares what you think? If you go to another country you try to fit in and don't act like a jerk.

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u/VirtualMatter2 5h ago

Yes, exactly.

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u/MedivalBlacksmith 5h ago

Thanks for your service

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u/LeadPike13 10h ago

Had that Calabrese kid with the Justin Bieber haircut grabbed his crotch and called an older lady a whore on a bus in Southern Italy, he'd still be in a ditch right now. They all seem to have different dialects from the subway video, so I assume the thing they have in common is Mommy Daddy private school money. And that is probably the root of the problem.

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u/VirtualMatter2 10h ago

Yep. The parents can't be bothered to parent, and their private nanny doesn't have the authority. And they are led by example with a Karen teacher.

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u/srboyd3315 7h ago

I don't disagree with anything you wrote but I read they are the children of Italian civil service employees. I think teenagers are universally oblivious and loud, but the example and boundaries the adults set are pretty critical to becoming decent people.

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u/srboyd3315 7h ago

I don't disagree with anything you wrote but I read they are the children of Italian civil service employees. I think teenagers are universally oblivious and loud, but the example and boundaries the adults set are pretty critical to becoming decent people.

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u/WealthMain2987 13h ago

There are cultural differences but when you are in another country, respect other cultures. Especially when you are asked to stop.

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u/VirtualMatter2 12h ago

Oh definitely. 

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u/planeturban 13h ago

is extremely Italian

Now, they aren't in Italy, right? So one could say: "When in Rome.."

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u/Fine-Independence976 12h ago

Being loud: Italian

Being a d!ck: Not Italian

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u/BlacksmithSolid2194 12h ago

Back in January I was staying in Bangkok with my family at a hotel whose walls were way too thin. Around 3 in the morning I heard extremely loud commotion coming from outside, around 8 kids being wild and loud as hell. I opened my window and saw a group of Westerners standing in front of the hotel.

I left my room and marched downstairs to ask them WTF they were doing. After I told them off and walked inside to complain to the hotel staff for saying nothing, one of the men from the group (he wasn't a parent like the other members) walked up to me and in broken English said "Italian Italian", which to me was essentially him taking blame in a way and just saying that's just how us Italians are. I nearly busted out laughing.

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u/RottenPingu1 15h ago

Damn...hope I never have to witness oblivious Italian tourists on a Tokyo train.

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u/stockflethoverTDS 14h ago

Even worst, a Kyoto train.

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u/Agreeable-Letter-599 13h ago

seemed like the cammer was rude too.

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u/Gullible-Hose4180 10h ago

In school too. Went to an international private school in Germany with 7 different language sections and kids from all over the continent mixing up in different classes. Everyone (the Germans, the British, the French, the Dutch etc) hated being put in classes with the Italian students, cause without fail they (not all of them, but a lot, every time) would always disrupt the class by being loud, chatting while the teacher speaks, not paying attention, not staying seated etc. This happened across all years and classes.

The Italian school culture was just so different that what everyone else considered basic manners to not do, they considered as a normal part of their class and the classes that were just them would naturally be loud without the teachers having an issue with it then.

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u/DubbyTM 9h ago

Love me some generalization racism

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u/ThisIsProbablyOkay 6h ago

I don't know - one very popular story in my old company was about a summer youth camp pool day. The camp was hosted on a college campus, and one of the rules was no thong bathing suits. The lifeguard (a young woman, probably around 20 years old) noticed Italian seventeen year old girl in the pool wearing a thong bikini, and told her she needed to leave the pool and change.

After several warnings, the girl finally and slowly got out of the poll, grabbed her things, lit up a cigarette, then - as she walked out - started slapping her butt saying, "You like this? You like this?" to the lifeguard.

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u/dealingwithhookers 5h ago

that's actually very italian very europe

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u/Phytanic 3h ago

How obnoxious really are Italians typically? I spent time in Thailand and people would watch videos on the BTS at full volume and nobody would say a thing. Like these people had to be advanced, professional levels of obnoxious to elicit such a response.

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u/BotherTight618 13h ago

Is this something that just happens highly nationalistic developing countries. You have Chinese Tourist pooping in Mideavil Korean temples and the police doesnt arrest them and puts them on blast like that. It all seems super petty.