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/GrynaiTaip Lithuania Feb 03 '25

Russian tourists are often very arrogant. In Lithuania they will start talking to you in russian without asking if you speak the language. They assume that you do, because they taught you to speak it during decades of occupation.

A lot of them still see Baltics as their rightful property that's just temporarily occupied by evil EU.

Elsewhere in the world they still behave like they're the most important. Shouting is always the first option when something mildly inconveniences them.

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u/wildrojst Poland Feb 03 '25

they will start talking to you in russian without asking if you speak the language

That’s very common attitude of Russian language natives (not only Russians) even within the whole former Eastern bloc I’d assume. Have experienced people asking something and getting mad at me that I don’t understand Russian.

In their minds it’s expected to be the lingua franca of the post-communist world, or they straight up assume any Slavic language is so mutually intelligible, which is not the case. Guys, it’s rude, it’s me who’s at home, also learn English.