The Finnish are people who in general prefer to be reserved and quiet, and not to bother others. You might find very loud talking and laughing between drunkards at a bar, but that's about it. And even that's actually surprisingly uncommon. If you eg. travel by bus, or go to a fast food restaurant, you can usually expect relative peace and quiet. Even teenagers who may be there usually use only moderate volume to speak to each other, rarely raising their voice or laughing excessively loudly. Most people speak much quieter than that.
Recently I was at a fast food restaurant here when I heard a group of people sitting at some table speak EXTREMELY loudly. Really, really loudly. Like ten times louder than anybody else. You could hear their racket throughout the entire restaurant.
After some time they finished and left, and I kid you not, you could still hear them from half a block away, when they were outside. And I mean, I could hear them while I was still inside the restaurant. They were so utterly and obnoxiously loud that you could hear them from that far, from inside. It was absolutely astonishing. How can people be so loud?
I didn't even have to look to know what kind of people they were. I looked anyway: That's right, they were immigrants. And not just immigrants from somewhere like Sweden, or Japan, or China. Shouldn't be surprising that they looked like from the Middle-East or North Africa. Surprise surprise.
These people have absolutely no respect for the hosting culture and their norms and customs. Nothing. Nobody teaches them to respect the hosting culture, nobody teaches them to respect its people, nobody tells them that it's inappropriate to be so loud and make such a racket in places where the local people are usually very quiet and deserved. And even if someone told them, they wouldn't care less anyway. They don't have to care. Their parents don't teach them respect. Their culture doesn't each them respect.
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