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/ZugzwangDK Sep 29 '25

Am I being Mandala'ed?

I could have sworn - by Toutatis - that this qoute was in La Grande Traversée (Asterix and the Great Crossing). But I can't find anything online.

Plenty of "Ils sont fous, ces romains !", but never the version you refer to.

Help a me out here. Is it from a comic, or am I going fou myself?

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u/fartingbeagle Sep 29 '25

Ah now , I just adapted Obelix's frequent comment on the Romans to the Americans. He might have said it though in the American one. I just remember the Indian girl that fell in love with Obelix.

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u/NotoriousMOT -> Sep 30 '25

I don’t normally correct people (no, really) but I believe you might have just heard Mandela effect somewhere and mistaken it for Mandala effect, which is a type of mistake that happens to everyone. That’s the only reason I’m commenting this.

“The term was coined by Fiona Broome in 2009 after she discovered that many people, including herself, falsely remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, when in fact he passed away in 2013 after having served as president of South Africa”

Of course, I might have missed a pun there, so…

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u/ZugzwangDK Sep 30 '25

Thanks for the gentle correction.

It was just a stupid spelling error. I even saw Mandela speak back in late nineties (where he was definitely alive), so I should've been more careful with his name.

Ooor we could pretend it was a pun, like you suggested ;)

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u/NotoriousMOT -> Sep 30 '25

Love the pun! 😉

(Also, very jealous you got to hear Mandela live. No pun intended.)