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I've been to several countries in Europe and found the Irish to be the nicest people in the world. Spent a month in France and never met any rudeness there and lots of friendly people. I loved it when we sat down to eat a picnic and people would walk by with a conspiratorial wink and a cheery bon appetit! We stayed off the tourist circuit of both though. I had the Austrians in giggles when I ordered my morning brotkin at the campground and mispronounced it I assume. I think people are people and I do my best to blend and not wave around wads of cash (don't have a lot of that anyway!) and don't carry expensive equipment around.
Considering that "Europe" consists of more than half a billion people from different countries and different regions within these countries and considering that "friendly" is a very subjective perception, this question is pointless. I also want to believe that friendliness depends more on someone's character than on his heritage. Am I too naive?
I rather take all "unfriendly" Europeans over shallow, always smiling but not meaning it Americans. Friendliness is indeed a very subjective perception...
Considering that "Europe" consists of more than half a billion people from different countries and different regions within these countries and considering that "friendly" is a very subjective perception, this question is pointless. I also want to believe that friendliness depends more on someone's character than on his heritage. Am I too naive?
I don't understand why it's so hard for some people to accept that Europe is an incredibly diverse continent so comments like "Europe = (un)friendly", "to speak European", "Europe = liberal" etc. don't make any sense.
And the same people is always upset when we do the same with their diverse continent.
Having lived in the US during years, generally Americans tend to consider "friendly" any clerk or waiter with a preconceived smile and formatted greetings wired to the cash register.
Because I heard it well while reading a comment on a Danish article
Roughly it said ...
"The happiness that you get from Danes is pure, not the fake "smile-while-you-work" doing it to get a tip, fake happy, please and thank you that you get from other nations."
While its more targeting America as that "doing it to get a tip, fake happy, etc" nation... I can say some nations in Europe may be this way too.
I've read some stuff about people from Europe being unfriendly. Like people from Paris, Ireland, and eastern Europe. Is it really true? I always thought Europeans were friendly, especailly since Europe is pretty liberal.
Um, once again, we are separate countries with very different cultures. You cannot group us together.
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I also want to believe that friendliness depends more on someone's character than on his heritage. Am I too naive?
