AMERICANS vs EUROPEANS: Biggest Cultural Differences You Didn’t Know

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• I think this was a wonderful and insightful overview. I have travelled a little and I noticed these traits. Thank you for your time and insights.

  • Thank you!

• Random small talk is pretty common in Ireland but in France they’ll think your crazy

  • Continantel Europe support introverted qualities and value authenticity

  • In France, the North is very different from the South... I mean even the language was different only 100 years ago. The South is culturally closer to Spain, even if now everyone speaks French (with an accent still).

  • No, that is not correct. If you speak French, they are very open to it.

  • true, observed it as well....actually several people both on the street and even at bakery or in supermarket, in line, tried small talk with me and my friend..rly enjoyable trait, wish I was adequately able to answer without sounding like a potato. @@thomassenbart

  • you + are = you're

• As an American, sociable introvert, when I was in Europe this summer, I felt like I was midway between reserved northern and outgoing southern Europeans and easily adaptable to both. I was in a lot of social situations and had a lot of good conversations and met interesting people from all over Europe, UK, Australia, US, and Canada. At home, I don't go out often, usually just to see a band. In Europe, I was going out frequently and staying out late. I noticed I'm far more sociable when travelling.

  • I think it's true for almost everyone to be more social while traveling, there are factors like excitement, newance, adventure and greatly reduced social shame that is particularly evident in tourist girls which are renowned for their "openness"

  • That's because it doesn't trigger your mind's anxieties. It's like being able to feel freer and less inhinbited by moving out of your home town for many people.

  • ​@@jeanjacqueslundi3502and he may also feel safer🤔

  • @@arnodobler1096 Yeah, it's definately true. I'm sure there's ,many places in Europe that feel safer on average than America. But the person actually being more sociable....usually has more to do with a change of attitude when you are abroad. You feel less inhibited often...and being the foreigner affords you some leeway in how you approach people etc

  • @jeanjacqueslundi3502 true. What I meant was that it also made him more relaxed.

• I remember I went on a date with a Russian girl. She gave me the whole peaches and coconut talk.

• As a Latino raised in Nyc I've always gotten along with Eastern/Centeral European women. New Yorkers ( especially older generations ) are more direct, loyal & genuine than most Americans . While most Americans perceive New Yorkers as rude I prefer the directness & genuine loyalty of New Yorkers & Eastern European. Fyi my wife is Slavic.

  • Hopefullly you looked for warm, hospitable, family-oriented people

  • Is your wife Polish?

  • @@MCADHD-rf5kl Yup.

• Thanks for that essential and educational video!

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• Portugal, Spain, France and Germany have the tall poppy syndrome too.

• Italy: you are rich when you have a big family with surgeons, lawyers but also people in the country that prodce healthy oil and wine. My sister is in Germany, I'm sending oil and sausages she's sending cookies and senf. Wherever you are, you need a family of loyal friends. We look through history, sometimes for a generation is hard sometimes you can collect money but most importantly homes for your nephews. We value middle class dignity, too much wealth is a sin, being low class is shameful. A good woman is a mother (the divine) or a generous aunt (minor divinity), a good man is not muscles, he's is brain and social skills. When you approach good Italians they offer you to be part of the family, you fail when they understand you can't be trusted. Men want to feel motherly loved from their partner and it takes a lot of patience for their childish behavior but on the long run we adapt, we understand sins and we are not afraid of a matriarchal organization of the house. Family (+friends ) is what matters, whose who doesn't understand are gipsies

  • Why would a man expect "mother love" from a partner? She is not his mother and should never replace that role. Roles are completely different. Spouses are equal. Parents are above a man. For a man his woman is his best friend, a lover and a wife. For his children she is mother.
    She would love her man as his wife, it's totally different love from we as humans feel from our mother.

  • @@aryungurueva4083 because we want the one for our children, not really for our bedroom, that's short time and replaceable 🤷🏻‍♂️
    E: could you replace god with " spiritual partner"?

• I could relate to the part about smalltalk in some European countries. I'm German and my boyfriend is Spanish. For years and years, I was always told "you're so negative, you're so pessimistic etc.". Realizing that complaining together is one of the most common ways of bonding with others in German culture - but isn't in Spain - was a huge step in improving our communication.

  • Interesting!

  • Very interesting

  • Same here. I am from Belarus, then I lived in Poland for some years. I think subconsiously I felt (and still feel) that talking about problems and complaining means "being real and honest", like as if it's bonding me more with another person, while saying "I'm great, family is great, work is great etc etc" is a "fake answer" that means you want to keep the person on a distance.
    Now I live in Spain and multiple close friends of mine of Spanish/Latin American background told me the same thing: "you make certain situations feel heavier than necessary"; "it's annoying to hear so much negativity".
    While I, in comparison, saw their "I'm great :)))))" in situations that seemed clearly not ok as "toxic positivity".
    Like.. dude, you can just tell me the truth, you'll feel better if you let it out...
    Anyway, now I force the "fake positivity" and it feels, paradoxically, cold to me :)

  • lol. Its not fake, its choosing a certain energy. They are lighter energetically and more open. Being negative and heavy will pull them down.@@ari_jean

  • @@LisaSoulLevelHealing yeah, probably you’re right

• I love the way you present your case …to the point and very understandable…I just Love all your videos…you do a great job 👏🏻…Alex🇬🇷

  • Thank you!