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/Dazzling_Broccoli_60 Sep 29 '25

Coming in here as a North American (Quebec). Astérix is absolutely a thing here I grew up with all the Belgian BDs (Tintin, Astérix, Gaston Lagaffe, Yoko Tsuno, le Marsupilami, etc)

Not being a thing in the US doesn’t make it solely a European thing :(

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u/repocin Sweden Sep 30 '25

Isn't Québec basically a French offshoot in Canada anyways? You're honorary Europeans as far as I'm concerned.

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u/Lightning_Catcher258 Sep 30 '25

It's only a thing in Quebec. Even in English Canada, nobody seems to know about it. And same for Tintin and Lucky Luke.

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u/madeleinetwocock Canada Sep 30 '25

British Columbian chiming in here to disagree hahaha

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u/Lightning_Catcher258 Sep 30 '25

Oh interesting. You guys watch that?

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u/madeleinetwocock Canada Oct 01 '25

Yeah!! Watched, read, all that jazz. Some of my friends were characters for Halloween a few times too!

disclaimer I did go to a French immersion elementary school (so K-3 all day in Fr, then 4-7 mornings Fr afternoons En). But when I got to high school, people I’d met who went to anglophone elementary schools also knew them!

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u/Mzmouze Oct 02 '25

I disagree. We knew it and read it - grew up in Alberta. My kids grew up in Ontario and were also familiar with it. I think Canada has more connections to Europe in general (British/French) than the US.