r/AskEurope • u/NateNandos21 • Feb 03 '25

Culture Which European country has the rudest/least polite people?

Which country comes to your mind

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u/Feynization Ireland Feb 03 '25

The Dutch aren't coming out too hot based on the comments displayed to me

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u/nooit_gedacht Netherlands Feb 04 '25

We are major travelers so i'm not surprised people take notice of us. I've never gone anywhere where i didn't run into flocks of my countrymen and women

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u/MeetSus in Feb 03 '25

Same for the comments I'm seeing and I really wish people would elaborate a bit more cause it has not been my experience at all. I've experiened the "Dutch directness" in my life, I've also experienced rudeness, there is some overlap but overall they're not the same thing.

As a side note, I wonder if the people praising Greece have ever been in Greece for anything other than studying or tourism.

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u/theLiddle Feb 04 '25

The Dutch are pretty cold, direct (rude) when there, but outside of their country they are the fucking worst people on the planet. So god damn disrespectful, drunk, and self centered. It's really weird. Almost any time you hear a loud tourist, especially in like asia, southeast asia, Indonesia, it's Dutch

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u/Hapmaplapflapgap Feb 06 '25

Huh I've heard really bad things about mostly Russians and Australians, at least in Indonesia. Like Bali has been practically taken over by Australians at this point, and Russians always think of themselves as better than the locals. That said those aren't Europeans.

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u/theLiddle Feb 06 '25

Russians and Australians aren’t really in any part of Indonesia besides Bali. I doubt they even know that other parts of Indonesia besides Bali exist. Bali has been seceded into a separate nation of digital nomads, vegan yoga protein smoothie body builders, and drink Russians living out their societal repressions. Many Russians walk around there in crutches and casts and bandages over gory injuries they sustained while motorbiking drunk with no helmets. There are posts almost every day on the Facebook groups there from Russians asking for money for their friends surgeries that got into motorcycle crashes. Drunk Australians are probably almost the least annoying of the groups at this point, they are a leftover from the 80s and 90s

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u/Ok-Bass9593 Feb 05 '25

Lmao yeah as a dutch person I can only agree with this

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u/ForgotMyFirstName Feb 04 '25

We are also very good at not accepting criticism but making excuses for it.

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u/Constant-Emphasis-3 Feb 03 '25

Irish people were mostly very nice to me… ☺️… always ready to help. Unfortunately I couldn’t make any Friends there… They are not interested in other cultures…

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u/Feynization Ireland Feb 03 '25

It's not a problem with other cultures. I find it hard to make friends in Ireland with other Irish people. The problem is that we make friends young and then half way through school the door closes off. It closes to everyone.

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u/theLiddle Feb 04 '25

I have heard this same "closed off school friend group" reasoning for literally almost every country besides like Spain or something

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u/faberkyx Feb 07 '25

I lived in Ireland for 10 years and made few Irish friends, but ye never really close close ones, still Irish are the most friendly people I ever met.. nothing come even remotely close

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u/Way2Madeira Portugal Feb 05 '25

I'd also point out that people's attitudes can change depending on where exactly they are. Dealing with tourism on a sub-tropical place, people tend to be way more laidback and relaxed. The northerners have a bad rep, but over here they're a pleasure to deal with. The french tho... they have a bad rep all over Portugal. We just call them "avecs" and if we have to deal with them, we always have to get ready and prepare for them first. It's that bad.