What Europeans think of each other....
Do you agree with these stereotypes?dailycandor.com/what-euro...ach-other/
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One line he half remembers:"It is the crowning achievement of modern Austria to have persuaded the world that Hitler was German and Beethoven Austrian."and one he doesn't refer to:"Hungarians are the...
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That was quite fascinating. The only stereotype in it that does not correspond to my own experience is the Czechs. When we were traveling in Eastern Europe back in the Iron Curtain era, everyone we...
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It may not be the whole truth but it came awfully close.I avoided looking at the article a couple of times. After all how can I tell what they think of each other, if I visit once or twice a year. I...
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I'm having a hard time believing that "half of all Brits" LOVE the French. I thought if you were British it was required to hate the French. No?
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Except for all those Brits who take every holiday in France and buy a second home in the south of France.
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ChiChi, my experience has been that those Brits are the ones who "hate" the French the most. I know a number of them who have places in the Dordogne and all they do is talk about how wonderful it...
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Quote:In other words, they love FRANCE. They just hate the FRENCH.
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I'm afraid I have to agree, at least for the countries I know well.Re Italians/Germans vs. the Dutch ... Dutch cars have NL on their licence plates which, of course stands for Nederland. Italians...
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Well, I'm one of many Brits that loves both France AND the French! We take many holidays in France (as well as elsewhere around the world) and enjoy not only the towns and countryside, the history and...
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There are other factors too. What Kavey says about the Swiss may have something to do with people who live in and around mountains - and might well apply to a fair number of Austrians and Slovenes as...
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Many stereotypes probably started out with at least a kernel of truth, but there are bell curves of behavior, and there's no telling where an individual will fit into the curve (or not at all), which...
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Quote:But it's equally silly to say that there are no national cultural characteristics at all, on average. I absolutely agree. I have a friend who can't differentiate between prejudicial behaviour...
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Ok, why do other European countries think the Belgiums are dumb? If you had to learn six thousand languages to speak with your neighbors (next door and next country), I'd put you in the above average...
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Thank you, ncgrrl. I only speak 5 different languages, though.By the way, a lot of Belgians themselves think they are dumb. We've always been the underdog in regards to our 'neighbours'. In France...
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And all the time eating at your wonderful restaurants
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I don't think I've come across the stereotype of Belgians being thought of as dumb. I'm not sure that one is shared by Brits; it may be a stereotype held by other Europeans.I tend to think of Belgians...
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The article mentioned the Belgium's lack of smarts or maybe that was by the French and the Netherlands. Any country that can make excellent chocolate is fine with me.
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Myriam,All I can say is as we went around Morocco, we'd started to think how often we'd seen French tourists being rather rude to local people. Smoking in mosques, yelling loudly at drivers and...
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