Quote: (09-19-2011 01:10 AM)Geronimo Wrote:
Well the point I was trying to make that was WE women (excluding spain/portugal) are no different when it comes to behavior to American girls. The only difference might be that Am girls may be more fatter because in Europe they are all active due to public transport options etc.
They are pretty different in behavior. According to my own experiences..
I would rather divide Northern and Western european countries in different blocks,
1) Northern Germanic-Scandinavian Culture: Sweden, Norway, Denmark,Netherlands,North-germany. They are usually the most liberal, permisive, and progressive societies with few to none attachment to religion and traditionalism
General attitude/behavior of the people: Quite enthusiastic people, they are very interested to get to know more and talk to people even when they are completly foreginer to them and unknown, but it seems to reach a more superficial level, having very good and intime friends seem to be really a hard work, If meeting people were a coconut then It would have the inverse density of the mediterranean or southern european ones, where getting to know the people and getting their real interest is the hard thing, but once u get it joining in their close circle seems much easier than in northern germanic/scandinavians societies where getting to know new people is much easier but to penetrate the intime friends wall is harder.
2)Central european-Germanic culture: Austria, German-Switzerland, Southern Germany.
This culture is more traditionalism and likely to be more conservative than their northern germanic cousins, they seem to have less permisive and more strict policies, religious beliefs and progresiveness are in between.
General attitude/behavior of the people: They seem to be in some ways more enthousiastic than Northern atlantic culture, but at the same time can appear colder and uninterested. People are more interested to get to known/talk to unknown people than in mediterranean culture and even the Northern Atlantic one, but due to the typical coldness they might appear less friendly and not as interested as the northern germanic-scandinavian culture does. The potential of enthousiasm is there but masked on the people's cold behavior.
3)Northern Atlantic culture: Uk/Ireland, Northern France, Belgium
Not a bigger attachment to traditionalism, not as conservative as central european culture but more conservative than northern germanic-scandinavian one, religiousity attachment is similar to central european countries. Policies more permisive than central european but not as much as scandinavian or northern germanic ones.
General attitude/behavior of the people: polite but dull. People can talk to other just for mere formality and appear correct but this group lack of particular enthusiastic vibes.
4)Mediterranean Culture: Spain, Italy, Southern france, greece.
The most traditionalist of all, highly attachment to religion and family (for european standards), not as progressive as other regions.
General attitude/behavior of the people: very loud, expressive and warm but It remains more with the people they already know (close friends and family) There is definitely not so much interest to act open to people they do not know. In the opposite with the northern germanic/scandinavian culture, here is easier to penetrate the intime friend barieer once u get to know people, which is the hardest part here.
I would say the people under the northern atlantic culture are the closer in behavior to american, specially Brits/Irish, because belgians and northern germans seem more dull/off and have less agressive/stressed reactions compared to brits/americans