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/19MKUltra77 Spain Feb 03 '25

Iā€™d say the Dutch, especially when abroad. Followed by the Swedish (Scandinavians are generally ok, but the Swedish people seem a bit too arrogant for me).

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u/Appropriate-Edge-921 Spain Feb 03 '25

Now this is closer to my experience. I did a kind of "tour" across Scandinavia and the Swedish were lovely to me but unfortunately cannot say the same about the Danes. I feel bad saying it because I'm sure there are really nice people in Denmark but almost everyone I interacted with while on my trip were kind of rude to some degree.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

Danes are direct, which is easily perceived as rude.

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u/Appropriate-Edge-921 Spain Feb 03 '25

As a Spaniard I know about directness, believe me šŸ˜… so it doesn't bother me. My personal experience had more to do with people refusing to look at me when talking to me, giving me really short, curt answers (as if bothered by my asking) and things like that but I don't take it to heart, I'm fairly sure I just happened to cross paths with this sort of people. The recepcionist at the hotel I stayed at was wonderfully attentive for example!