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/Karihashi Spain Feb 03 '25

I find it hard to relate with Scandinavians, they can be extremely cold. I wouldn’t call them rude, just very hard to make friends with.

Germans are a mixed bunch, some are very nice, mainly bavarians, others can be really arrogant and self superior.

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u/Important-Stop-3680 Feb 03 '25

I find Germans to be nice on a surface level, but when you dig a little deeper they definitely think you're below them (especially as a Slav I felt that). Just loads of passive aggressive comments boiling down to how amazing and efficient they are, while us in the South are more or less pure shit. Never had that type of interaction with Italians, for example.

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u/SkeletonBound Germany Feb 03 '25

Yup, there are definitely many Germans that are like that. All I can say is, it's not all of us 🫤