Anyway as for my stereotypes they are
Eastern Europe: European countries that still have their balls, are sufficiently grateful to us for saving them from the red menace,unlike certain other nations *cough France. Poland of course has the dumb pole jokes, as well as their slave like devotion to the memory of Jan Pawel. The whole region's history can be summed up as "doomed moral victory against Russia."
The Balkans: Corrupt war ridden hell holes with names that are hard to pronounce.
France: Snobby ungrateful hypocritical racist xenophobic commie bastards
Briton: Jolly old England,dad, the only western European nation with balls,though those are shrinking fast. Snobby, but have good comedians, and are obsessed with tea.
Scotland: Braveheart
Italy: Oh how the mighty have fallen. Well at least their self aware and have good food.
Greece: Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Russia: Evil commies,but on the other hand their soooo awesome I mean did you see their dash cam vids.
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Does it count as stereotype that Germans are either portrayed as Bavarian (Lederhosen and Oktoberfest) or Prussian (Pickelhaube and militarism)
All Scandinavians Are Vikings ?
edited 11th Dec '14 3:02:29 PM by 3of4
"You can reply to this Message!"- Western Europe, primarily non-English: Paradise! And there would be at least a lot of people with some understanding of English
- Western Europe, primarily English: Paradise! And there would be a lot of people who can speak English
- Northern Europe: Paradise! And there would be a lot of people who can speak English
- Southern Europe: Paradise! And there would be at least some people with some understanding of English
- Eastern Europe: Paradise! And there would be at least some people with some understanding of English
edited 13th Dec '14 6:35:55 PM by entropy13
Actually, in Eastern Europe you can find waiters who speak four foreign languages, baristas who speak three, secretaries who speak two, managers who speak one, and bureaucrats (to say nothing of politicians) who speak none.
Apparently since they've seen those promotional shots of sunny wheat fields, winter forests and old town squares with houses and palaces dating back 400 years or so.
In my opinion, Europe is more or less shaping to replacing US as the prominent ideological saviour or something. Anyway, while Europe in itself is not a monolith, traveling to Europe pretty much requires going through several countries over a span of at least a week. I saw a forumer snarking another forumer who intends to go to Frankfurt for a mere 3 days, calling it a trip to experience jet lag and not worth the cost and time spent.
From where is he coming? Cause Frankfurt Airport is one of the central airports of Europe (#3 after London and Paris in fact in terms of busy-ment) so getting a flight there shouldn't be that hard.
And once he reaches the Schengen Area does not not basically just have to do the border control and then move just as freely in there, since no border controls inside?
Honestly the logic of the argument does not play out?
Does he come by car? Then its a lengthy travel either way, even if you consider border control by non-Schengen states.
Same with Train's.
Does he come by plane? Lots of planes go to FRA, international from all over the world. Quickest way to go there possible, depending on where you start comes out how many times you have to change plane. But thats not that different than getting to, say Hong Kong (#10 busy)
edited 20th Dec '14 4:22:30 PM by 3of4
"You can reply to this Message!"Ever since the "Third World" came to be. While Eastern Europe would probably have most of the problems that plague us too (insurgents/terrorists, high crime rates, corrupt government), their money is actually worth more simply because of geography (i.e. still being in Europe). Heck there had to be SANCTIONS in place for the ruble to be worth less in USD terms compared to our currency.
edited 20th Dec '14 7:10:21 PM by entropy13
I'm from the Mediterranean, so I don't know much about the Northern European countries, but from what I can gather, Finland is Europe's equivalent of Canada, correct? They have very similar environments and climate, a large focus on tech and progressive policies, similar architecture, moose are in both countries, etc.

Did I just edit my post?
edited 11th Dec '14 2:01:26 PM by Aespai
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