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10 Things About Europe I Find Strange (Page 3)
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Regarding the tourist things, many Europeans find tourism destructive. What you would consider tourist attractions to us is our culture and our heritage. To some, that its an attraction comparable to a theme park is extremely offensive.
Yes, I know.
But I didn't know they're offended because we don't treat them as cultural treasures.
I just heard that Europeans prefer vacationing on beaches and in mountains, because they have old buildings in THEIR cities, so why go to another country to look at old buildings.
I understand why they feel this way, but that mentality is so PC and I think they're over reacting. Americans don't get offended when people call the "Statue of Liberty" a tourist attraction. Seriously, this is just ridiculous!
The only place I would side with them on this, is pilgrimage sites. But you can't expect tourists to understand the cultural significance of every building.
I like to research the historic and cultural significance, but most people just wanna see it 'cuz it looks cool. I don't understand why that offended you guys. You dislike tourists, but you sure love their money.
And I've never heard of a tourist comparing St. Peter's Basilica or the Colleseum to a theme park.
"Tourist attraction" just means, landmark that's popular with tourists. I don't see anything offensive about that.
Interesting MyTake! Thanks for sharing. What do children call their step-parents formally?
You read that extremely fast
I have no clue.
I call her by name, but It is totally okey to call them mom or dad if you fee like it
I read fast. Really fast.
Ask your mom. I was just curious what else they might call a step parent.
@anmari2001 Are you from Europe?
Bulgaria it is
I never let kids call me by my first name. It was never a thing when I was growing up so I see no reason to change that. Yes, I have in laws who think letting kids call them & relatives by their first name is normal. But I’m old school. If a kid tries it I ignore them 100%. If they try too often/don’t use the right title, I make sure their parents know that they won't be welcome in my home if they don’t get with the program. That has always ended any issues.
Some of the things you mentioned I encountered in the US sometimes.
Which ones?
Number 2
Number 2 is definitely true in Pawn Shops.
Please do not write about an entire continent's culture, when you're only informed about Polands.
I listed other countries too.
One European girl only wrotre about Florida, but called it USA.
Another only wrote about Ottawa but called it Canada
I was gonna do it on just Poland but thought I would get more readership if I wrote about Europe as a whole
Write about Poland and you have a informational, fun to read Take.
Write about an entire continent (wrongly) and you have misinformation and minor slander.
I gave examples for specific countries though.
If I wrote about Poland, Poles would kill me
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I see now it would have been better if I titled it, "Things I experienced in Europe, that I found strange"
So is this like negative review or positive review for you? But dang, sounds like Europe isn't to great, but trust and believe we got a lot of those same things going on over here in America still.
No Europa is great but he talk about the old soviet countrys they are still not totally healty from the wars and the soviets
I agree with most of them but here your ID does get asked and we don’t talk formal at all.
You live in the Netherlands, right?
And I heard the UK isn't formal either
Yeah
Anyways, thanks for reading
You’re welcome
As a person from western Europe I can only agree with few of these..
Which ones?
Europeans are more formal (Not everywhere in Europe), non EU-Foreigners get charged for everything, strict cig and alcohol laws, backwards fashon.
Things such as pick pocketing only occur in tourist heavy cities as far as I know. Customer service simply depends on what companies you call and how good their service is. (There is a lot of good customer service out here) Public transport over here is perfect, and they do announce each stop.
Most of the points hugely depend on culture and where in Europe you are staying. It even depends on the type of family you stay with.
Not everywhere in Europe, this is true.
My mom thinks they're formal everywhere. LOL I've only recently started to find out that they aren't.
True.
One of your fellow countrywomen said she got scared when a random stranger in Canadian market started talking to her because in YOUR country only people who are on drugs do this!
It made me laugh so hard, because in the US and Canada it's normal to engage in conversations with random strangers.
Why don't Europeans like engaging in conversations with strangers?
Very interesting.. that was very similar to my experience in France..
Really? I'm sad to hear that?
Because I thought the French for the most part were very lovely and friendly.
Depends on where you go.. I had a better time of it in England honestly.
Even French people say to steer clear of Paris and Marseilles. It also depends how you approach them. They tend to be friendlier if you greet them with a "bonjour"and a few words of French
Right!! Sadly I dont know as much French as I should.
Me either
Worldscollide - I was wondering where you were from, just so I can get an idea of your point of view. When I went to France, #10 did seem to apply. Its been a long time when I went to Europe but from what I see on youtube videos etc the French seem to be more in to dressing formal. Sat on some steps once waiting for people we knew, me and someone were trying to guess the nationalities of people from what they wore. Of course it was a bit general.
@Starshine85 im from the wheat state of the US
I was in France, and I would say they were over-polite.
Probably depends on the region and type of destination and what is deemed as polite but still interesting to see different peoples experiences.
I was in Paris..
@worldscolide Paris is the epitamy of bad French stereotypes. Other parts of France are not like this.
I would hope not.
Literally none of these apply to my country. A European country called Sweden.
Well that's good.
Maybe the only one that applies is "introverted" and "don't like talking to strangers"
"What's even more shocking is that many European countries don't even have an age limit for alcohol consumption." There's literally a age limit in EVERY European country.
Then how do you explain THIS?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age#Europe
Almost every box under the Drinking AGE category says "none"
Then I must have looked at the legal age of purchase alcohol
Yeah, probably. That's what I'm saying, there's a purchase age but no drinking age.
i guess they could still arrest you for illegally getting your hands on alcohol tho
Actually, one Swedish one I find strange is women leaving their babies unattended and leaving them out in cold weather to toughen them up.
One Swedish tourist was arrested in New York for leaving her baby unattended while she went into a store, and she said she didn't know such a thing was illegal here, because in Sweden it's normal
Ehm that doesn't happen.
here.
Oh, you're only 17. Maybe it didn't happened in your generation.
Maybe it doesn't happened anymore
Although at kindergarten babies usually sleep after lunch outside but not in really really cold weather and not to "toughen them up" it just for fresh air and its actually gives better sleep and sleep duration in babies. But they are technically supervised as I remember at least that kids at my kindergarten slept infront of a window so you could clearly see how the babies were feeling. Nowdays I have no idea. But my parents never did it, it was only in kindergarten.
Okay thank you
I bet it depends on the country but not the continent as a whole.
I know. But Europeans also travel to ONE state, and but title the MyTake "Strange Things About AMERICA" so...
Either way it is stupid.
Okay so don't read it
@ZeussLightningBolt
I did read it but it depends on the country or cou tries you visited.
countries
None of this is true lol
At least not where i live or any country I've Been to
All the Swedish people are saying this doesn't apply to their country.
Is it true that Swedes are very introverted and don't like to talk to random strangers?
All or none.
Actually, one Swedish one I find strange is women leaving their babies unattended and leaving them out in cold weather to toughen them up.
One Swedish tourist was arrested in New York for leaving her baby unattended while she went into a store, and she said she didn't know such a thing was illegal here, because in Sweden it's normal
Are you basing your experiences of off just Poland? But not all of Poland is like that either, my grandfather grew up there and I read this post to him and he disagrees as he had different experiences.
Mostly, but not solely. I was gonna just do it on Poland, but I thought that would limit my audience, so I did Europe.
Did he grow up there during the Cold War? Has he been back since?
Things have changed.
Or maybe he didn't notice these things because to him they are normal.
Fair enough.
Yeah and he’s been back but only for vacations, he wants to go back to see his fathers old house soon.
Could be
That's why!
When you only go as a tourist, you don't notice these things.
I don't know where you went in Europe, but most of the things you said are false.
Poland
Denmark
Slovakia
Czech Republic
Greece
Catalonia
YOUR COUNTRY
Andorra
I have not read everything, but the highlights just seem wrong to me. I agree with you on most of the formal part, but the rest I don't share the same perspective.
I really think you should read the details. S'il vous plaît.
When I get the motivation to. That's one THICC take.
I have to make them THICC, otherwise they won't get featured
I see G@G likes em' THICC.
OUI.
It sounds like you spent all your time in Eastern Europe and didn't cross the old Iron Curtain even once.
I was in Spain, France and Andorra this past winter
It doesn't sound like it. That was my point.
I mentioned France and Barcelona in the customer service section.
Frech is just a baeutifull country but most people look like ass holes because they dont like to speak English
And spain is mostly just lazy
A few of those sound a lot more like the US.
Which ones?
Totalitarian rule and socialism people aren't free so they're not happy. In th US we're more free and so we're happier. We don't live in a cage like they do in Europe.
No surprise. Corruption started and came from Europe after all
What the fac?
I'm sure Europeans would find your homeland strange as well.
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~ Mrs Manson
highly observant as well as informative myTake
as a european myself i wonder how you would feel about him doing a my take on india. oh i can see the humour in this mytake but its so full of holes you could drain rice in it
I don't care
fair enough.
I'm still dearly sorry if what I said was offensive to Europeans
no... that wasn't my point at all. im not offended by you or the mytake as a whole. its interesting to see what crazy impressions people have of Europe. i just meant that you shouldn't take every thing in the mytake as absolute truth
oh okay, I'll make a mental note of that
@wankiam Yeah, it's also funny and interesting to me when Europeans write these kinds of articles about the US, because things that are so normal to me, "like random strangers talking to you" is so strange to Europeans.
I've also noticed Europeans like criticizing others, but hate being criticized themselves.
But I didn't mean to come across as rude, or make Europe look bad, or even say these things are bad, just that they are strange to me, because things are so different in the US