> Americans are speaking to one another far less than they used to. According to that study, the number of spoken words uttered by the average person fell by 28% between 2005 and 2019. Each year during that time period, the number of words people spoke in an average day declined.

I wonder what the difference is between this, and culture in EU where small talk isn't really a thing.

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jvican 16 hours ago | parent [-]

The EU is large and most importantly very diverse. Pretty much all the West and South of Europe has a very strong small talk culture. You shall not stereotype a country, and even less so a political and economical union of countries.

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galleywest200 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The US is larger than Europe and importantly very diverse, a melting pot you could say. You will find people in the South are far more talkative than people in the Northwest. The “Seattle Freeze” is real and I believe that it does not exist to the same extent in the South.

	▲	renjimen 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Just pop over the border to Canada from Washington state and they thaw right out! Also, nit, but Europe has ~2x the population of the States, and definitely more cultural and linguistic diversity.
	▲	watwut 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They all talk or at least understand English. The cultural exchange between Spain and Hungary is much smaller. Or France and Poland. And historical shaping is much different - they did not went through the same dictatorships and same wars.

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wolvoleo 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And within those regions it differs a lot too. Here in a big Spanish city you would find very little too, especially in summer when there's so many tourists.