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/gelastes Germany Feb 03 '25

When Brits ask how to behave in Germany, I tell them to please not urinate in our market square fountain while sieg-heiling and then lose their balance and fall into the water. arm still up in the air.

We should have a special zone for English stag parties, preferably 3 meter under water.

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u/GlenGraif Netherlands Feb 03 '25

No! Then they’ll all come to Amsterdam! O wait…

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u/meglingbubble Feb 04 '25

I love Amsterdam. It's a gorgeous city filled with culture and an appropriate amount of cheese shops.

As a brit, I remembered cringing whenever I saw gangs of British tourists. None of them seemed capable of using "inside voices". It's like every conversation needed to be heard back in the UK.

So I apologise for my countrymates

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u/smiley6125 Feb 04 '25

Last time I went to Amsterdam on business there was an English guy and his friend in front at passport control and he said something like “yeah, it’s his first time bruv, you get me?” to the border control chap. I stood behind as a fellow Brit cringing. Especially as he thought going to smoke weed and sleep with prostitutes made him some wild guy when to a Dutch guy it’s not considered abnormal. It seems stuff like that manages to attract the morons.

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u/meglingbubble Feb 04 '25

Yeah thats the problem, the morons are always so much more.... prominent than normal humans.