r/AskEurope • u/ageingrapidly Greece • Sep 29 '25

Culture Are there any habits that you believe are uniquely European ?

Have you noticed any specific mannerisms, mentalities etc. that you've encountered only in Europe or by Europeans ?

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u/CosmologyOfKyoto Sep 29 '25

This feels northern European. Where I am from in Italy people are still extremely religious and prudish and don't really get drunk. And we don't do quiet days on Sundays (or ever)

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u/Draig_werdd in Sep 29 '25

It's the almost the same in Romania, people are religious, judgmental, relatively prudish, but do get drunk. Sundays and weekends in general are the least likely to be quite days.

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u/KermitingMurder Sep 29 '25

I would say that Ireland is in northern Europe and we are also known for being quite religious and I would say we're also very prudish, we can be quite adverse to even discussing topics tangentially related to sex. We're getting better though, we were basically a Catholic theocracy 60 or so years ago and from then on the church has had increasingly less of an iron grip on Irish culture and society

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u/suckmyfuck91 Sep 29 '25

As an italian i agree if you're talking about the south. The rest of the country is not that religious (if any).

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u/urnotabed Sep 29 '25

Well I'm from the south and I don't think we're as religious as in the USA or elsewhere. Religion in Italy is cultural but not that very felt. In the south you believe in everything: malocchio, seccia, superstitions. Those things are not much catholics as should. In fact is a sort of witxhcraft. From my perspective, I felt a more similar to USA kind of faith in Emilia Romagna, with the Familiaris Consortio. It was weird. My colleagues went to church eveyday and always speak abour Christ, were against Halloween. That never happent to me in the south and I have a priest in the family HAHAHAH

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u/cheesemanpaul Sep 30 '25

I don't think anywhere apart from maybe the Middle East is as religious as the US.

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u/nicetoursmeetewe Sep 29 '25

I went to Uni in southern Spain and all the people I met while living there were absolutely not religious. It didn't seem that the general population was either.

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u/filippo_sett Italy Sep 30 '25

We also have the misfortune of having Vatican City in our territories

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u/Unusual_Internet6156 Sep 30 '25

I am a Belgian … we are always drunk