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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
i think europeans are often offput by the more outgoing and loud nature of americans, sharing personal stories when no one asked and generally being less socially aware/“polite” ( this is a huge generalization i am american as well)
gpt
This brings to mind when I was visiting my brother-in-law's family in Spain, with my father and step-mother in tow. BILs family pulled out all the stops to show us a wonderful time including a day in Pamplona during San Fermin. While in a church, which feels much more reverent than even a Catholic Church in America, a woman approached my step-mother (who is loud anyways but recently deaf, and despite being well travelled still unfortunately American in her demeanor) and told her, in Spanish, the story of the birth of her daughter named Lourdes, named after one of the saints with a statue in this particular church. My BIL translated and as soon as he said the woman's daughters name was Lourdes my step-mother cut her off and shrieked, what we thought was "MY DAUGHTER'S DAUGHTER'S NAME IS LOURDES!!!" Everyone just turned and looked at her...I was extremely embarrassed, and we were very confused because my SM calls my sister her step-daughter, and sister doesn't have a daughter. (SM has a very heavy Boston accent so it sounded like My Dottiz Dottiz Name is Lawdez it was awful). We kept discussing whether perhaps she had dementia behind her back until one of us mustered up the courage to ask what the hell she was going on about. Turns out she felt compelled to shout "Madonna's daughter's name is Lourdes", which makes even less sense, in this poor woman's face. It may not seem that bad but I imagine this type of loud and obnoxious behavior is seen regularly by Europeans and it was very uncomfortable.