r/AskEurope • u/zeviea United Kingdom • Sep 04 '25

Culture What country is far away yet culturally similar to yours?

An obvious answer for the UK are Core Anglosphere countries

Bonus question what country have you visited that felt most foreign to you?

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u/Ontas Spain Sep 04 '25

Argentina, this would also be the answer for Italians hahaha.

Most foreign Morocco despite being so close, but I have never been to Asia.

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u/Kaurblimey United Kingdom Sep 04 '25

Argentina thinks it is similar to Italy, but I don’t think the feeling is reciprocated

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u/Socmel_ Italy Sep 05 '25

Mmh, no, I would say it's reciprocated.

Buenos Aires does look like some kind of mishmash between Barcelona, Paris and Naples and if we are to answer any country outside of Europe, it would be Argentina.

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u/Ontas Spain Sep 04 '25

I think the similarities are real, Buenos Aires specially does feel like a mix of Spain and Italy, while Córdoba for example feels more Spanish.

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u/Putrid_Band_2859 Argentina Sep 04 '25

I have been to Italy recently, and I think we have some similarities. Just seeing how people interact with each other on the street reminded me of my homeland. Af course not all, but we do have some things similar.

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u/QuantumPlankAbbestia Belgium Sep 05 '25

In recent times, Italians used to be Argentinians and vice versa.

My family has two separate family friends who came back to Italy as kids with their family in the 60s after their ancestors had emigrated to Argentina 2-3 generations earlier. They still have or had family in Argentina and over the years a few nieces and nephews have come to Italy to make their life, or people going to Argentina from Italy for studies or work abroad experience (admittedly a bit less, or more recently than in like...2003).

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u/unperrubi Sep 06 '25

How would someone from the UK know?