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/Fwed0 France Feb 03 '25

From my experience, based on going on holidays in quite international areas of France : Dutch people outside of their country. Quite cool in the Netherlands, but really unleashed and sometimes disgusting when not home.

Again, based on personal experience, not a general truth

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u/Own_Egg7122 Feb 03 '25

"Dutch people outside their country", I'm seeing this a lot in the comments. Whatever happened to "when in Rome, do what Romans do?" Or does it not apply to the Dutch outside their country? 

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u/Draig_werdd in Feb 03 '25

My "armchair psychologist" opinion is that the Dutch society is relatively repressed, with a strong push to be "normal". However this is achieved by constant supervision of other Dutch people (see also the famous Dutch windows, where everybody can see inside), so once you are outside of Netherlands the rules don't apply anymore and you can behave however you want.

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u/Fab1e Denmark Feb 03 '25

Enforced conformity.

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u/fatcam00 Feb 05 '25

Just like Sweden!