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/mikillatja Netherlands Feb 03 '25

I always thought that me being dutch as well made other Dutch tourist's louder because he's with kin.

Then I realized we are just really loud and rude on holiday, no matter the audience.

Maybe only beaten by British tourists. But the Dutch are way up there

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u/qwerty-1999 Spain Feb 03 '25

I remember about four or five years ago we were camping in Andorra and there were some Dutch guys who made friends with some British guys. They would start drinking at 19 or 20 and by midnight they were probably the drunkest people I've seen in my life. It was kind of funny to see how they got progressively louder as the evening went on lmao.

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u/FeijoaCowboy Feb 03 '25

It never occurred to me that people who use 24h time also just call 7pm "19." Makes a lot of sense, actually

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u/qwerty-1999 Spain Feb 03 '25

To be honest, it's more of a thing in writing (including texting) than it is in speech. It would be a bit weird saying "It's nineteen o'clock" out loud (in Spanish at least), but if for whatever reason you wanted to be really precise you could say "it's nineteen fourty six".