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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It largely depends on the European nation. Even as a non-native, I don't tend to lump them all in one judgment, just as Europeans shouldn't lump all Americans in one judgment. Every American state is different. Reply to this comment with a European country and I'll share the thing about it that I understand the least.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Iron_Lynx 6 points 1 year ago

As a Dutch person, a bit off topic, but some truth in television that I found funny:

The Belgians' relationship with fries.

Last summer I was at a former military camp in the German hills, managed by Belgium when it was still operational, and we had a Belgian tour guide who'd served in the camp when it was active. He joked that the Belgian conscripts serving in that camp still got fries thrice a week, or they'd have a riot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The lack of a feeling of equal opportunity the secessionists all have for each other. If one group has the right to leave, I'd think all do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's what I'm saying, the UK and Bosnia for example are very different places

[–] kozel 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The thing I understood the least about the Czechlands is why Czechoslovakia didn't have one identity (for a lack of a better way to put it). Like it always seemed like a compound of two places, as opposed to a singular distinct body.