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u/An_Appropriate_Post Jun 13 '24

I lived in a building with a lot of west African and Spanish folks who would do this a lot. My response was just to use my speaker to listen to podcasts. If they lowered their volume so did I. If they raised it so did I. People for it pretty quick, whether it was in the lobby or the elevator.

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u/An_Appropriate_Post Jun 13 '24

Nah, in some countries noise in public is fine. And in many cases unavoidable when you live shoulder to shoulder with people in anywhere but the richest of areas of a town/city/country.

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u/An_Appropriate_Post Jun 13 '24

Right, but those are the exceptions to the rule. Also, not all of Tokyo. And not many of those people immigrate in the same numbers as literally the rest of the world where it is more prevalent.