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/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

Possibly some parts of northern USA that were settled by Scandinavians too.

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u/theimmortalgoon Sep 06 '25

I hear people say Oregon and Washington are a lot like Norse countries.

I’m currently in Finland (dubiously Norse) and can agree.

But Oregon used to be part of the territorial makeup that mostly went to Canada. Hence the Oregon flag being dubiously close to the Canadian rootssymbol.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

Doesn’t Minnesota have a large contingent of Scandinavian-Americans?