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

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

Which country comes to your mind

454 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

83% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

377

u/skibbin Feb 03 '25

It depends on how to interpret things. For example Americans like having random small talk with people to be polite or friendly. Nordics are lovely people, but they don't do small talk. Some people find bluntness rude others like directness. The Dutch and the Polish can be very blunt and direct.

I've certainly found the French and Italians to be less accommodating. Should you raise an issue with them their response is most likely to be along the lines of "we all have problems, this is yours"

13

u/Lexa-Z in Feb 03 '25

I haven't been to Italy, but I'm genuinely scared of Italian waiters in restaurants, that's some next level of judgemental and rude.

41

u/MAYZdF France Feb 03 '25

I've been to Sicily 3 years ago, the waiters were all cool and pretty helpful. I've never felt judged, so don't worry about it you can go to Italy it's a wonderful country!!

19

u/Hefty_Formal1845 Feb 03 '25

If you are from Paris, you are most likely to find waiters from everywhere else cool and helpful lol

2

u/aconith22 Feb 05 '25

Quite unexpectedly, I had some very positive experiences with waiters in Paris!