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I agrees with that wrote above - in the Еast in the big cities people more reserved, in the village - are open.
Аnd by the way, it is fair not only for Eastern Europe.
Trimac, people in St. Petersburg ( and Moscow) are "more reserved" not because they are "like Finns," but because it's a big city and people in big cities in Russia are more reserved - it's normal. However overall Russians are not "reserved" - they are "Northerners" with a Southern twist, and overall the culture is very extroverted. ( Although people in Southern part are more talkative of course; they probably smile more often as well - that goes to Ukrainians and Southern Russians.)
My impression of Southern Slavs ( Bulgarians and those from former Yugoslavia) - definitely "Southerners"; a loud bunch.
I agree with alot with this post.
But I would say that from what I have viewed on Yugoslavs them seem more inbetween than say Bulgarians who are more Southern in behaviour.
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Originally Posted by irish_bob
the only eastern european country ive been to is hungary
hungarians are both unfriendly and rude
scandanavians are not overly friendly but they are certainly not rude
eastern europeans are more hardened than northern europeans IMO, i would exclude poles who tend to be nice
Fair comments.
But Hungarians seemed alright from when I visited there.
Off course you get alot of very rude ones.
They are still alright compared to some others.
Eastern Europeans are more tougher than most other Europeans.
Polish are very nice folk and their country is nice too.
Don't like my posts, might I suggest the twit filter.
Works wonders.
No thanks. I know about the ignore option, but if I ignored everyone who I disagreed with on this particular forum, I'd be pretty bored.
By the way, you didn't answer my question. What was it in my post that made you think that I experience problems with a wide variety of people during my travels? As I stated, I don't. I thought my post was pretty clear, regarding my feelings toward the people of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland (feelings which are overwhelmingly positive). Apparently you thought otherwise. Why?
Have you traveled to Austria or the Czech Republic, Slovakia or Poland?
How does this imply that I have "so many problems with people when I travel?" I love to travel, and do so internationally often. I have a great time, and find interesting, likeable people wherever I go. I just found the smallest PERCENTAGE of likable people per capita in Austria.
Out of all the countries that I've visited in my lifetime (at last count, I think it was about 30 countries so far), I've found the people of ONE country - Austria - to be a bit unfriendly, GENERALLY SPEAKING. Even then, I didn't have "problems" with them - I just didn't much care for their overall demeanor, a fact that I kept to myself, being the courteous person that I am.
that was the same message i got , someone needs a new pair of specs
wouldnt worry about it , chielgirl spends most of her time galloping around on a very tall horse , those kind of folk are rarely people persons
Hungarians always were strange island
in huge Slavic sea. When they came from East to those lands, that borrow now, they were absolutely barbarous tribe, nobody understood them and their language (and still very few people understands it), so it was reflected in their character.
Would it vary from north to say? So the people in St. Petersburg are reserved like Finns, while those in the Balkans are more like Greeks? How do the Eastern European countries vary in terms of temperament/outgoingness/extraversion/friendliness/frankness? How are they overall? Could you sort make any generalizations?
Balkanic people can be every bit as feisty and fiery as Italians and Greeks. Whatever stereotypes there are about Eastern European women being quiet and compliant certainly don't apply in the former Yugoslavia.
I've worked with people from many European countries and i've not noticed much of a difference. Some from larger cities seem to stick together and be more self-reliant whilst those from smaller towns seemed more willing to mingle and maybe more outgoing but i think that's pretty much the same everywhere...
With regard to Hungarian i believe it shares a common linguistic root with Finnish.. The language tends to make them a little more isolated maybe as it doesn't share any common roots with neighbouring countries?
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