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Old 11-23-2013, 08:03 PM
 
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The most international country in western europe is the netherlands, Mostost international companies are present there, for such a small european country it has its 3 larger cities already having minority dutch population(less than 50% ethnic dutch) , They have a huge immigrant population composed of both colonial and recent immigrant, and it has the highest share of non-western foreigners % wise of all europe. We have to consider that It's higher density of population makes the feeling and interaction of cultures clash more often in comparison of lower densely populated countries. England and Flemish Belgium would come in second place. The least international country in western europe would probably be between Italy and Greece. lets not forget about Wales, if you take away england from the UK, the overwhelm population of other british countries (specially wales and northern ireland) are pretty much composed by ethnic britons.

1) Netherlands
2) Flemish Belgium
3) England
4) France
5) Germany and Sweden
6) Norway
7) Switzerland (many foreigners but few of them are actually of non-western origin)
8) Spain
9) Denmark
10) Austria

Yes I consider scandinavia to be western europe

Thats western europe on a wide sense:


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Old 11-23-2013, 08:18 PM
 
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Iceland? And Norway.
Maybe Iceland but not Norway.
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Old 11-23-2013, 08:39 PM
 
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That's basically Western Europe for you, except that Finland and especially Greece does not make much sense of being "Western Europe" geographically, only politically and culturally.
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Old 11-23-2013, 09:52 PM
 
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The UK sort of is and isn't. Britons are probably more aware of the world than most Europeans, yet perhaps the fact sometimes they think the world that matters = the Anglosphere detracts from that a bit.
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Old 11-23-2013, 10:04 PM
 
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Living in Sweden, I can say that people here are extremely aware of what happens in the world, or at least, the western world. For example, the story of the young Australian guy who was murdered in America by bored teens was all over the news here, even though both Australia and the United States are about as far away as you can get from Sweden. And the majority of films and series shown on Swedish TV channels are American films and series, and sometimes British or Australian. For example, the Australian series Neighbours has been shown on TV here in several seasons.

And unlike some major European countries like Germany and France (where everything is dubbed), we do not dub English language films and series here, they are all shown in original English.

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Old 11-23-2013, 11:37 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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And unlike some major European countries like Germany and France (where everything is dubbed), we do not dub English language films and series here, they are all shown in original English.
This is one thing I LOVED about Swedish TV when I was there! EVERYTHING is subtitled, so you can hear the original language, and improve your language skills that way. And films from all over Europe, including Eastern Europe, are shown. There's so much DIVERSITY on TV! I saw Bulgarian, Romanian and Russian programs, as well as US and Western European ones. The best TV programming in the world, IMO.
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Old 11-23-2013, 11:46 PM
 
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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This is one thing I LOVED about Swedish TV when I was there! EVERYTHING is subtitled, so you can hear the original language, and improve your language skills that way. And films from all over Europe, including Eastern Europe, are shown. There's so much DIVERSITY on TV! I saw Bulgarian, Romanian and Russian programs, as well as US and Western European ones. The best TV programming in the world, IMO.
In contrast, everything in Italy is dubbed.
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Old 11-24-2013, 07:03 AM
 
Location: Stockholm
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In contrast, everything in Italy is dubbed.
They actually do that in most of Europe. The Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders) and Scandinavia is an exception to it though.
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Old 11-24-2013, 07:09 AM
 
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They actually do that in most of Europe. The Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders) and Scandinavia is an exception to it though.
and Portugal
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Old 11-24-2013, 07:30 AM
 
Location: Minsk, Belarus
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and Portugal
and Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, countries of Ex-Yugoslavia. They all use subtitles.

So overall the dubbing/subtitling ratio in Europe is about 50/50.
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