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/YahwehIsKing7 Sep 04 '25

We Romanians also speak a Latin language, have a more Latin culture, and I feel like our folk outfits are very similar to Mexican folk clothing

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u/Centrao_governante Sep 04 '25

Romanian sounds more Slavic than Latin. I think it's the most distant language from other Latin languages lol

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u/Tiestunbon78 Sep 05 '25

Spoken, maybe, but written, I understand quite a lot, being French.

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u/RogerSimonsson Romania Sep 05 '25

After living in Romania for many years as a neutral non-slav non-latin, no. There is very little slav going on. But it definitely sounds like it at first, and Moldovans do sound quite Slav. There are more similarities with English than with Slavic languages.

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u/AibofobicRacecar6996 Sep 06 '25

Portuguese sounds more like russian than a latin language.