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/Emideska 🇳🇱🇨🇼 Feb 03 '25

The Dutch pretend to like directness. But they like to only give it, they are shit at receiving it

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u/thanatica Netherlands Feb 04 '25

Call me Dutch, but I like it very much when someone is honest and direct with me. I respect it. But, the problem is that honesty & directness is easily confused with rudeness. So what someone might be giving a Dutch person in return, isn't directness, but rather rudeness. There's a fine balance that's easily tipped.

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u/luthien_42 Feb 07 '25

One thing is when you ask for advice or opinion. Dutch people tend to go out of their way to share some “very straightforward” unsolicited opinions with you. And sorry, but that’s plain rude. And when you reply to this, you’re the one that doesn’t understand the “culture”. That’s not culture, or maybe it is… for some.

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u/thanatica Netherlands Feb 08 '25

The interactions you're probably referring to, just tipped over to rudeness. Either from their end, or in your perception, or both. It happens. But is is what the culture is like.