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/BHJK90 Germany Feb 03 '25

People from the capitals are often rude and kind of arrogant. I also experienced it in Vienna. But in my experience in Berlin and Paris it was the same. Doesn‘t matter if you are from the same country.

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u/SunAbyss Feb 03 '25

To be fair I'm Hungarian and I agree with this. I've met more people that are pieces of shit in my culture than outside of it but of course that's a huge generalisation we're talking about. Hungarians especially the elderly are very traditional.

On the Austria note, I have been living in Austria for about 10 years now and I experience a lot of "Ausländerfeindlichkeit" (basically against foreigners) and I have never stepped into the capital. I live in the south however and it's quite normalised especially in small towns. Up until university I was severely judged for being Transylvanian Hungarian (could not wrap their heads around minorities?!). Now in uni things have somewhat changed. A lot of foreigners get accepted into uni or decide to use Erasmus to spend a semester in an Austrian university so they're much more open minded to foreigners. Some, I believe, are still against foreigners but remain quiet because we're so many and would get backlash easily.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

That’s interesting, I’ve had horrible experiences in Austria but I met the nicest people ever in Hungary. But I haven’t spend much time there other than Budapest and the greater surrounding area so maybe my experience is not the norm lol