Total nudity is not a normal thing in European beaches. Going topless in any beach is acceptable, but going naked only in some reserved and signed beaches. On the streets is even ilegal
Yeah, but in Spain nudity is very normal and there is not even called that. Portuguese ppl have shit brain and think abt malicious things and they see naked people. But in Spain is all about respect , slim , fat , naked, no matter how people are in Spain there is basically no judgement in the beaches
Depends. In Lagos, Portugal, there is the Meia-Praia beach, which is 5km long. Near the city nobody will ever do it, but in the last kilometer you'll see many people naked, and it's not a reserved signed beach. As for top-less, it's everywhere and nobody cares.
@@compphysgeek the beach is not empty, but have less people. Anyway, one of the things the locals and tourists like to do is walk the 5km of beach. It's always full of walkers, and collectors of shells. That part of the beach is full of big shells.
Most European beaches have special nudity zones. In The Netherlands, some areas of the beach on the North Sea shore are nude beaches. There is no fence or anything though, you can walk over the beach from The Hague to the beach near Amsterdam (IJmuiden, which is approx. 50-60 km) and you would cross a lot of areas on the beach designated as nude beaches. Edit: Being topless is not really an issue btw.
He talked just about the UK for the most part and made so many inacurasies it's insane... Also the fact that some of the countries he compared to are just super specific and different from most of the rest of the world, so it's more like, they are the different ones, instead of european countries being the odd man out.
Yes agreed who lets themselves into someone else's house I've never heard of that being a normal thing to do. We also do not go around patting anyone on the head well not unless they want their head to be hit very hard back.
@@krekolos421 Could be, but there are no real sources and since we both probably don't know better we wouldnt supsect it beeing wrong. You see with this kind of videos how cheaply they make there videos. No way they fact check there military stuff.
And the fact that his video is stated as behiovour considered normal in europe being taken as rude in other countries and then show things that wouldn't be considered rude is also stupid. Like no one is gonna think I'm rude, because I let them sit down on the public transport or that I'm rude, because I didn't rush inside the elevator. Straight up delusional.
The Portuguese do it... But that's about it as far as I know. Everyone else takes their shoes off. Most of my life I actually thought that keeping shoes inside is some TV trope that only people in series and movies do so that the show doesn't have to constantly stop for them to put on or take off shoes :D Imagine my shock when I realized that Americans actually do that.
In germany too. Also you sometimes ask if we should take the shoes off or leave them on. Like when you're picking someone up and wait for them inside their home. or at housepartys you can also ask bc some people don't care bc they will clean the floors afterwards anyways. and hello Mr. Neighbour 🇩🇪❤️🇦🇹
In Poland if a guest comes in you tell them to keep the shoes on in certain situations, but the guest is still usually expected to take them off, no matter what you say
right?! did you watch the video of them with the differences of US-american teens vs "european"- teens ? (I think it was teens or young people. something like that) that video was filled with bullshit
As a european: -Letting people out of the elevator before entering is simply more efficient, it also prevents the elevator from being overpackad and break down. -Taking of the shoes indoors is also just not cultural, dragging in dogpoop or gravel is not very pleasant. -I can understand how public show of affection is frowned upon, especially loud toungekissing, but no hugging in the taxi, is a bit extreme. -Entering someones home by the back door is ok, if you are expected and are good friends or family, but I wouldn't do that in the US, that would be asking for getting shot by a sawed off shotgun, still knocking and yelling while entering would be polite.
@@arjix8738 this video made it sound like it's normal in the UK for people to just walk in your home, which it isn't. And when it does happen it will be close friends or family who do it.
At least here in Germany, letting people leave before entering isn't something specific for elevators. We also do that in trains, busses and pretty much any situation where people want to exit and enter at the same time.
@@hendrikmoons8218 I'm Italian and we don't greet strangers with a kiss, only family members and close friends. And it's not a real kiss, you just touch each other's cheek (sometimes barely) and make a kissing sound.
In Spain we give "two kisses" when we are introduced to a new a person (male or female) if you are a woman and if you are a male you "kiss the cheek" of the woman and handshakes the man. I write "kiss" because is more a touching of cheeks with a kissing sound or an air kiss kind of greeting. You are expected to greet family and friends in that way and probably is going to be more kiss than air kiss and lots of hughing but we don't kiss a total stranger. I supose the video talks about meeting a person for the first time.
It's even worse for Asia since most major cultures inside of it don't have a lot to do with each other. The middle-east has more historical or even ethnic ties with Europe than with the far east for example. Asia is a very artificial entity that lumps together east-asians, Indians, arabs/muslims...
That infographic video is ridiculously wrong in most cases. It's okay to be naked on a beach? Nah. There are designated nudist beaches, yes, but those are *designated* and you cannot be naked in most beaches. and definitely cannot walk around naked in town. You get booked immediately.
leaving shoes on inside is not normal and is actually considered very rude in most european countries. never seen people petting someone on the head. (at least here in germany nor in London) never heard that asking someone their age is rude if you're meeting new people at a bar or whatever it's perfectly normal to ask them their age. saying "please" "thank you" and "your welcome" is a normal thing to do here in germany too. It's actually something that everyone teaches you as a kid. For example: If someone gave you a gift or candy or whatever as a kid , your parents will say : "Was sagt man?" (What do we say?) meaning that you have to say "Danke" (Thank you) that was a really stupid video. they just compared UK to Asia most of the time and it seems that they think that european countries all have the same norms. There are many videos of The infographic that are filled with stupid and/or wrong information.
it was about religious buildings. for example in Japan, when you enter a Buddhist temple you have to take off your shoes. there are also some traditional restaurants where you have to do the same.
Entering someones home without permission is not acceptable behaviour in the UK or any other European country. If you are going to enter without being invited then the eccepted etiquette is that you knock and announce yourself even if the door is already open. I have no idea where the guy got his information.
Family friends use the backdoor where I live sometimes, I assume they mean this by unannounced. I don't think this happens in cities but in smaller towns it is not completely unheard of. Obviously you should knock on the open door and say Hello so people know you are entering the house but I am assuming even this is unheard of in the USA which is why its in the video.
Both comments are correct. Perhaps with a close family member or friend I'd go in if there was no answer but I'd definately knock/ring/say hello. Who knows what you might see if you just wandered in unannounced!
It's quite common in rural Romania. There are villages where the people still leave their gates and front doors open during the day because everybody knows everybody there. My family had friends in such a village and I've seen it myself a few times. I'd be just chilling in the kitchen/living area and a neighbor/friend of the family would come in and ask if "Mary" or "John" were home. Of course, like I said, I'm talking about a place where everyone knows everyone, this definitely wouldn't fly in bigger towns or cities.
In Croatia, going topless when sunbathing is quite normal on beaches. Total nudists typically pick a slightly more secluded part of the beach, not the central one.
Yeah, but in Spain nudity is very normal and there is not even called that. Portuguese ppl have shit brain and think abt malicious things and they see naked people. But in Spain is all about respect , slim , fat , naked, no matter how people are in Spain there is basically no judgement in the beaches
I'm Croatian and this isn't really true in my experience. You'd mostly be able to see topless women on secluded beaches. And you'd only see nudists on nudist beaches.
@@xxxLesy I think the same. American men/boys wear that funny uncomfortable knee length swimwear, and what we call a "normal swimwear" they call it a Speedo and think it's inappropriate. I mean, my overweight and 70+ father always wore it and he surely wasn't trying to look sexy... it's just what you wear on the beach😄
His comment to this was so backwards, it reminded me of ancient explorers journals that wrote everything with the perspective of their culture being the only valid one. Interesting how the human brain didn’t change over time.
@@Laedde not letting pregnant woman sit down on bus is just selfish. We as a human kind should help each other. Asia is super large and cannot be generilzed, but man, some of the norms in some parts of the continent are bananas. And driving a car is some part of Asia should be banned. But I think in this sence people in Asia need more time to learn the car rules. Because it is impossible to have infrastructure like highways and huge intersection and still use the rule of "whoever honked first have right of way" since those only work in lower speed.
Totally true, Asia is older than Europe and certainly America! Their rules are their rules and culture, just don't go there without any prior research US! 😏
As a European, I can confirm, that this video is mostly wrong Edit: Our internet technichian actually took off the shoes as they were entering the house, generally you keep shoes off, unless told otherwise And everything else mostly is wrong aswell
@@AhylerThat seems to be a Spanish/Portuguese thing if this comment section is anything to judge by. Here in France we take our shoes off (most people at least), same in the half dozen European countries I’ve visited, and in Romania too. They also do it in Asia. It’s about leaving the floor as clean as possible when coming from the outside
8:26 yeah, this is not true for all European countries. Actually, now that I think of it, almost all of these "European" things are mostly just from the UK and France aka the Western Europe If you have learned anything so far about Europe, is that West, North, South and East are very distinctively different from each other, and most cultural generalizations do not translate well between them. They do however understand the differences of the other regions, and almost always adjust their behaviour to match the country they are in, as in the saying "When in Rome" thus conflicts over these are quite rare
In Poland entering someone's house like that is very rude (very!). Anyway - just 40% of Poles live in the houses. All the rest live in big buildings like apartment buildings or tenements, so they have no back door :) But even houses - not all of them have the back door. I have seen a lot of people in the UK putting their legs/feets in shoes on the oposite seat in a tram. That was horrible to me. Like... imagine - the UK is very rainy country and someone might take the wet seat. But even if it's dry, your shoes are still dirty. I can't understand, why they do that. Behavior like that is also very very rude in Poland. Another thing - entering any place before letting other people exit is just stupid. In a bus or an elevator/lift if some people leave the place, there is more space for those who enter. So what is the point to enter first? It doesn't make any sense.
Since Europe is not a country most of those points don't speak for most european countries, here in germany for example no one (atleast no one I know) walks with shoes into other homes
Well you enter your and maybe go to the „cellar“ or show area and then take them off. Have never seen people taken them off right outside house/apartment
Given that virtually everything this guy says about the UK and Europe generally is incorrect, I don't have much faith in what he says about Asia either!
Nudity on most European beaches …. Really??? Have they been to Europe?? Here In the Mediterranean there are a lot of people who go top less, there are some nudist beaches but not a lot
It's a generalization about a bunch of diferents countries inside Europe and Asia. For example, in Scandinavic countries everybody take off their shoes at home and in other homes. I'm Spanish and I have home slippers at my entry hall to change from my shoes. It's true that not every Spaniards do it, but at my home and family homes all people has to take off their shoes to enter. Beaches are not like is suggested in the video. We have (here in Spain) nude beaches where you sunbath in your birthday suit and textile beaches where you can go topless. It's totally normal to see women of all ages go topless at a regular beach. You can see a 17 years old or a 56 one sunbathing only with the bottom part of the bikini. Nobody is going to try to shame them or to say anything because is permited and normal. Nobody is going to stare at them because is probably that if you do it, they are going to call on you (and the rest of the people is going to defend the women involved too) or they are going to call the police if they feel threatened by you. In Japan you have to let the people inside the train get off it to enter. And they form a queue to enter. You can see the marks on the floor of the place where the door of the train is going to stop and the line you cannot pass to let people exit the train. And they have a line to mark where and in what direction you have to form the line to enter the train. They are too orderly and respectful for a Spaniard. I'm sure if you are injured or old, they are going to let you sit. Probably they are going to acompany you to the seat and help with your things.
My work consists primarily on entering people's houses (and sometimes I even have to go to multiple rooms) but many times it also involves going in and out multiple times. Imagine if I had to take my work shoes off in every service...
@@module79l28well, in Romania we also take our shoes off when visiting other people’s homes, unless the host insists that it’s ok to leave them on. However this does not apply to people that come to perform any type of work or service (plumbers, electricians, etc.). It is just common sense that they keep their shoes on even if they are dragging in mud on a rainy day - they would just clean their feet on the door mat and then the homeowner would clean up after they leave. It is just practical and a safety issue. Usually the closer the relationship to the homeowner the more people are expected to follow the rules if the home. An acquaintance or a work colleague would not be held to the same rules as a family member or close friend. Churches do not require shoes to be off, but mosques do, so people respect the rules of the religious establishment they are visiting. Orthodox churches require men to take off their hats and women to cover their heads with some sort of scarf (and will provide one), it’s not mandatory for women, but it is for men to take off hats, caps or beanies. I am not religious, so if i’m just visiting a church i don’t cover my head, but if i’m attending a service on a somber occasion (like a funeral) I do. People generally adapt to the occasion.
I think that mostly the southern european countries are known for bathing topless. I think it has less to do with being naturalists or being a hot-blooded nations and more with an obsession for having perfectly evenly tanned body. Germans are also like this and they are also known to love to sunbath until they look like an overfried chicken.
The coming into friends backdoors thing only applies to VERY good friends or neighbours you deeply trust cuz from a legal perspective it is considered "disturbing the piece of owner and property" in Germany, thus can get you into trouble. Yeah the culture shock in Asia is insane, an aquaintance moved to Indonesia and its the wild east over there. Something a punky teen would do like carrying around drugs or consuming them literally gets you executed, its crazy. They dont joke around.
Its the same for Denmark. And You knock so anyone inside know someone is comming. If ou are a stranger its a the main entrece and there is a bell or hammer.
i'm french and i don't kiss everybody. i never see that too except if you have a proper introducing to someone by a friend or someone you know. most of the time if it's not in your friend circle ,you shake the hand first.
The "kiss on the cheek" thing is definitely not a European thing. It might be normal in some countries in Europe, but definitely not in all. About the flags: Back in 2006 when the football world championships were helt here in Germany, a German beer company used the German flag as a background for their beer advertisements and nobody cared. Just imagine the sh*tstorm Budweiser would get if they printed beer advertisements on the US flag.
Kissing on the cheek as a greeting came to Europe from the Romans so it most definitely is a European thing. The majority of European countries do this and the exceptions are the minority. There is no European country where cheek kissing is not done, just rarer than say hugging. For example, in my country of Poland hugging is absolutely the main way of greeting someone but cheek kissing is also seen as acceptable and while not as common, people will not think of you weird if you do it.
@@Bezimienny1598 In the UK, a cheek kiss is quite common for opposing sexes, whereas girls may hug and for men it's a good firm handshake, but hugging as a whole is usually reserved for friends and family. Times are changing though.
@@Bezimienny1598 You can't say that there is no European country where it's not done. In Finland kissing on the cheeks is not done. Ever. Not even within family. Close friends or family might hug each other when they meet but even that is not what most people here do. We say hi and smile, that's enough to tell the other person that we are happy to meet them. For me it feels very awkward to get that close to a stranger but I do it in Southern Europe to be polite. I just feel uncomfortable afterwards.
You´re right! The cultutal gap, which behavoir is desirable and non-desirable is not between Europe and the rest of the world, but between the Western World (including Latin-America) and Asia. And Asia itself is divided in 3 very different "don´t even thing to do" cultures: The Confucian impressed East Asia, India and the Islamic culture area. Perhaps, Africa is also a case of its own. But I don´t know about....
This video isn't about european habits. It deals with cultural differences that are not only european vs. specific countries, especially in Asia and the arab world...
This is what happens when someone speaks about countries without knowing. I mean, come on; most of the beaches accept nudism? There are specific nudist beaches just because you cannot be naked in the others (which are the most of them). And so on. I have never seen anyone popping in through the backyard door without permision (probably because it is freakin rude and because most back yards are closed and you will be trespassing). Anyway, to whoever made this “facts” video, Ryan and we all deserve better.
Someone being served out of turn at the bar in the UK is extremely rude, I've seen it start arguments 😂 if the barman goes to serve you before someone who was there before you, its good manners for you to say "they're next"
Incorrect. There are massive differences. Civil rights differ, freedom.of speech differs, election laws differs and there's definitely a difference between genders and LGBT+ acceptance. It's not a monolith entity.
@@charisma-hornum-fries Indeed, as you say there are massive differences. I'll keep ours. Civil rights without health coverage for all, and with no one to stop the neighbors from being armed to the teeth? No, thanks. Freedom of speech or debauchery of speech? Freedom of Expression is one thing (which of course we also have in Europe) and quite another to be able to say anything. Here defamation, injury, slander, lies that affect social peace have their legal consequences. Your freedom of speech is leading you to disaster, and you have a good example in the MAGA. Election laws? We are already seeing it... how the Republicans try and manage to restrict the vote to the citizens, we are already seeing how your Electoral Colleges act. You are the only democracy in the world where the popular vote does not matter. In 25 years the Republicans have won the popular vote only once and yet they have ruled most of the time. A clear democratic anomaly. Difference between genders and LGBT+ acceptance? There in the red states women can't decide on their own body, and we all know what happens in places like Florida, where they try to prevent the word "gay" from being said. No, no, I prefer a thousand times the freedoms we have in Europe. Here we are not scared if we see Michelangelo's David, instead of being scared we consider it one of our cultural symbols. And here the last time books were banned was in Hitler's Germany.
thats bullshit. europe, especially north and central, has crazy high taxes and lots of regulations and laws that cut into individual freedoms. "letting people live" here means taking most of their salary and make everything expensive via regualtions and bullshit laws with virtue signaling excuses, but subjugation as goal
That's true. And it cherry-picks weird Asian rules as well. If you combine Singaporean anti-littering laws with Thai lèse-majesté laws you have outlawed pretty much all of human behavior yet in 99% of Asia this is not relevant
I live in the UK and I always keep the front and back doors locked. If somebody is coming to visit I like them to phone me to let me know or to ask if it's convenient to make sure I won't be out. I don't like people to just turn up unexpected unless it's my daughter who I am always pleased to see and who has a key to my house anyway.
That's fine but with respect, that's just you. Most people don't mind friends and family turning up unannounced. It's also considered acceptable for you to tell them when it's not convenient too.
Most of the stuff I heard is complete and utter BS... The Infographic show is such a bad Channel in general that does extremely poor research for all of their videos...
This is mostly weird things in some parts of Europe that most Europeans frown upon.. However yes, there's a lot of nudist beaches in Europe. It's not near 100% or even close to 50% but there's a lot of them. After all nudity is nudity, who cares, I mean I even have pictures of myself as a toddler bathing in the kitchen sink... it's just nudity, everyone is born naked, and it's natural. And as someone from Sweden, I must say that it's a lot more Americanized a place these days than it was in the past. Your culture is toxic waste infiltrating all other places. Before the year 2000, Europe was a lot better, after the year 2000, it is worse, and the worst part is that the younger generations have no idea of how good we had it before 00, that there's a huge cultural gap between those old enough to remember the previous century, and those who can't.
@@timothyreel716 I think you have it backwards, but think how you want. The US protects Sweden more then the other way around. Fortunately, there are a lot of other good Swedes out there we appreciate. I'm sure the young people there would love to go back to the 1900's though. Show them how good it was, maybe they'll go for it. I doubt it, but you can try.
I've been kissed several times from strangers, and it's usually ladies in their fifties plus or grannies. I mean, if they smell, they smell, you put up with it, and let them do it. They're showing you their appreciation for whatever you did. One granny kept smooching me all over my cheeks while thanking me for letting her take my seat on the bus. She didn't have teeth, but it still brightened up my day.
In switzerland it's considered rude to talk loudly on the phone or with some else on public transport. Noone will ever say something, but you will earn quite some stares. You also always let people off the trains and busses first before getting in. Some people might even say something.
Entering from the backdoor at someone's home was pretty common here in Belgium too when I was a kid. Needless to say it depends on the neighborhood; if the kids next door are friends or even family, children do it all the time. we also had a whole in our hedge so you don't even go through the street, you enter the garden, look if your friends are home wave and enter.
This video is completely ridiculous. In the Nordics (here in Finland, Sweden ...) most of these things are considered EXTREMELY rude as in all other parts of Europe I've lived in. I recommend for you to not react to this channel anymore as this channel clearly doesn't know anything about Europe. (I got it at the end - is this video meant for US/European people visiting Asia. Even so...)
I think the infographics show was really off. It looks like a high quality video, but it clearly is mostly nonsense. That's why we need the downvote counter back, to be able to identify bad videos. The original video has about 1k downvotes and 4k upvotes. That's a harsh ratio.
This infoshow video is just bad. Half the stuff was either reversed like 'What is fine outside Europe, but rude in Europe' or 'What is fine elsewhere, but banned in certain location' or what is common in UK, but bad idea elsewhere, unless you are family/longterm good friend with a permission to enter anytime. Only place I have heard about, where people leave ourside-shoes on, when entering someone else's home, is maybe rural Bavaria, but that is it. Regarding religious buildings tho, that is maybe correct. Most beaches really aren't nudist. While toplessness is tollerated, full nude on normal beaches not so much.
Can you do a video about underrated countries in Europe? Like Belgium, Luxembourgh, bosnia and herzegovina, estonia (+ most underrated in my opinion) montenegro Like give them a separate video if possible, i can give you links in case you’d like
@@EastFame Not true. Every country has something special. What it is for Estonia I don't know yet, so I would like to be surprised. Or maybe something with Estonia included. I could imagine a video about the link between Finland and Estonia for example. Or maybe something about the 3 Baltic states. Lots of good options.
how is Belgium underrated? The CAPITAL of the EU is in Belgium. The seat of the EU is in Belgium. It's literally the power centre of Europe. Maybe underrated by Americans, but they literally know nothing not directly relevant to their own country
The video he just watched is the typical “USA people thinking they represent what the whole planet thinks and they don’t understand they are just one single country different to the rest”
This video is ridiculous. We don't do that, and Asia is not a country and not comparable. And Europe has own different cultures. Definitely a bad video, just to confuse you.
Sorry....but this video thar you choose was not a good one Ryan. It seems for this guy Europe is the UK only? I am from Germany....and i never leave my shoes on when i enter a Home. And the other stuff was also weird.....a friend will no longer be a friend when he entered my home without my permission ( it reminds me more on all the american Sitcoms :D ). And when you travel to another countrys....there are always different rules....i hope the video creator know it too...he seems very confused to me :D
Just been in UAE as european and I have to say that those information seems outdated. Nowadays its mostly overlooked if someone is just huging or give a simple kiss in public. Unless you are fully "make out" nobody seems to have problem.
That what it was also years ago. That British couple as far as I know were very, very passionate in their act. That what gave them the sentence. Peck on the lips or quick kiss is totally normal. Holding hands or have a quick hug as well, even Emiraties do that.
@@RaduRadonys I lived in Dubai for 10 years. Just relocated to another country end on 2022. I don't know what they do in Abu Dhabi, but in Dubai women are sitting in the front of the bus, closer to the driver. So, if any man will decide to assult a woman, driver will be able to see it and call police. It is much difficult to notice any assult from the back of the bus. 🤷♀️
Nudity isn't acceptable on European beaches except for nude beaches. Being topless is, for women as well, so he's probably confused with that. The Infographics Show btw always has a lot of falsehoods and nonsense in their videos. I never understood why it's so popular, because the channel is littered with misinformation.
Yes, their concept of liberty often borders on disrespect in the eyes of a European. They don't have filters when they speak, so they can be more confrontational or intrusive.
@@timothyreel716 this exact comment is what I was talking about. I wasn't confrontational before, I was only talking about different ways of expression, but you still got triggered and you felt the need to talk back.
In France, during the height of the pandemic, it seemed very strange to meet up with friends (once we were allowed outside) and not cheek-kiss, or at least shake hands. It's simply a way of 'opening' and 'concluding' a social encounter. The govt tried to promote touching elbows as an alternative - that's how keen people are on initial and final interaction. If you don't want to cheek-kiss, thrusting your hand out as quickly as possible can help ward off unwanted 'bises' (cheek-kisses) but people seem to be happy to go through with a kiss - it's really more of a brush of cheeks, very few people turn their heads to plant a big sloppy one on you.
Yeah, in my country, touching your lips to someone's cheek in greeting is actually considered weird, you just brush your cheeks and make a "kissing" noise.
An American joking viewpoint, being locked up in Asia or the Middle East for disrespect is not funny, it's really bad news for your booked return ticket and budget! 😳 I live next to an almost all Asian suburb - watch your back, your side, your front, your eye contact, where you sit, your place in a queue, your walking pace, ... I grew up with normal English manners, quiet smiles, and lots of space, this is really, really tiring! 😧 I spent most of my life around Europeans! Most of the countries have their own quirks, superstitions, customs, rules, alliances, histories, religion, terrain, foods, costume, humour, certainly languages! Each is in some way unique! Do Research! 🤨👍
It's obviously a US citizen that made this video - which thinks that Europe is ONE country. Europe consists of 50 independent countries with their respective differences in cultures. Not like the difference e.g. between Colorado and Rhode Island - which speaks the same language and have almost the same cultural history. We are independent countries, with independent cultures, independent history, our own languages and so much more diversity than the US. You can't use Europe (the continent) or the EU (a political union) as a whole to compare against other countries or cultures. And btw. you'd be arrested in most European countries if you're nude in public.
- walking into a friends home unannounced - totally! - i mean, yea, i do it all the time and there is friends of me in my flat when i come home from work, too every now and then (likely eating something from my fridge) - its totally normal. And no, they are not digging through my drawers in my bedroom .. they just make themselves at home - i think thats totally normal. Also, my door is never locked. .. not sure i know where the keys for my flat are anyway. - well, i dont think anyone wants to be naked at our beaches .. but as far as i know, we have no rules about it - so feel free to bathe naked. I dont think we have any rules about nakedness in public. You are expected to be naked in the sauna or when showering at a geotherm anyway. - kissing on the cheeks like the French do is normal now. But i think it only started in the early 2000s here. Usually you hug your friends (still do) but you do the cheeks kiss for people you know, but are not really your friends. (like colleagues)
I assume you live in a nordic country. Those countries are safer, and the population is more respectful of other people, so I guess that's why you rarely close your door (even if I have a hard believing you "don't know" where your keys are). In many other countries, especially UK and France, you've better protecting your stuff.
@@xenotypos no doubt i would find my keys. They are in some drawer - if i had lost them, i would get in trouble with insurence. but yea, its Iceland. No need to lock yourself in.
Tbf in France pointing at people is extremely rude. You can point at things, but not people, as it's like being too obvious and considering a human like an object Also, being topless on a beach is ok. Being nude isn't. Unless it's a nudist beach, you can't just go around in your "birthday suit". The law forbids the lack of tops if you are in a city, men or women. But it's barely applied, police doesn't really care
Onlly friends and family come in the back door, normal guests use the front door. And yes, they can walk in on you while you are naked, but they know that (at least in our case)
My grandparents used to leave their front door unlocked, that allowed family members and relatives to enter and exit freely. But it took only 1 time for a stranger to come in uninvited to change that... the crazy thing though is, it took decades for that to happen first time.
@@spugelo359 yeah, the old times. When I grew up fro every door there was a cord to open the door from the outside, so the kids could go in and out all day. Neighbors would use it too, or the milkman. At christmas eve and new years eve the front door was open so people could walk in to give you best wishes or join the meal. It changed in the 80ties when people couldn't be trusted on their bleu/brown/green eyes anymore
I'm in Europe... wearing shoes in the house is extremely rude and disrespectful. I have no idea which country in europe he specifically grabbed for that. Probably somewhere uncultured like the UK.
That video was complete bullshit. And not just about Czechia, my country, but even many generalized European facts were wrong. Heck, I spend few years in Asia and can tell some of those were wrong too.
In most European countries if not all of them, we take our shoes OFF when entering a house or appartment. Walking through the back door unannounced to a friends house is NOT normal at all.
The Dubai info seems a little cliché or at least outdated. As for the couple arrested and deported, my understanding is that they were doing a little bit more than "kissing". As a gay man, it's true that I was not as free to act in public in Dubai as I do in the West, but it's Dubai not Paris or LA. If you go to a foreign land, you have to accept its rules and obey them, we do expect visitors to obey our rules when in the US, don't we? A lot of Dubai criticism stems from dishonest entitlement.
Ah yes, The Infographics Show strickes again. The mythical monolitic countries Europe and Asia🙃... I imagine that when writing an episode their team tries to remember something heard somewhere sometime more or less on the topic, not check it, and greenlight as a gospel, because somebody will belive that😂
That video comes off as grasping at straws to make Europe look weirder than it is. Most of the things listed here are either incorrect, true only in small parts of Europe, comparing things that we do the same way as 'rest of the world', but compared to a country or countries that are exception to the rule. The only things that were actually true would be not rushing to empty seats because that is just being considerate. If you do not need the seat badly, let somebody else. That is why I commonly see that when a seat opens up in a bus, it takes few seconds before anybody starts approaching the seat, and nobody after that contests that claim. Same with elevator, it's just being considerate to let people inside out first. Like wtf are you doing making it harder to get out? You're wasting everyone's time by making it take longer for people to get out, including your own time.
I don’t know anyone in the uk who are ok with people just walking in someone else’s house! 😮. I’m also not sure where this guy got all his facts. If you pat someone you don’t know in London you’re likely to get thumped. The Sex Pistols are now all pensioners.
I'm Italian my guests never take off their shoes in my home and I've never been asked to take them off when I was a guest. Why would we want to see and smell others feet? Also there are nudists beaches but generally being nude is not accepted, topless is tolerated. Also nobody walks nude or topless in a city or town and you can't get in in churches if you have a lot of skin exposed
When an American makes a video, explaining European behaviors, as if Europe is a country like the US. The way the guy in the video talks about others is what I call "Normal in the US, RUDE everywhere else".
@@timothyreel716 The other way around has yet to cross my way, though I am open for others to change my mind. I'd be thankful, if you could guide me to an example of what you are claiming.
The thing with nud!ty, there are naturist beaches where you can be nakey, and topless sunbathing is nothing weird. It's not like we walk around like we were just born :)
Women aren't allowed to look into the eyes of men?I could never travel to a country like UAE where women are treated like "garbage". This may be cultural. As an european I just hear women get less respect, aren't worth anything, they are getting "demeaned". Wearing head scarfs (Hijab) is the same thing, In the name of the religion. When I see 5 year old children with head scarfs, I wonder do they really grasp the reason behind it? Don't understand me wrong. I'm not against religion, I'm against the discrimination of women. I'm Swiss where women could not vote until 1971!
For the kisses part, I travel a lot in France for example and kisses are not really kisses it’s more cheek against cheek if someone greets you with a kiss mouth against cheek it’s either a (good) friend or someone a little bit weird lol
Wth. There is nothing like a unified European culture. While these do apply in some European countries, try any of that in eastern Europe and you'll get the same treatment as anywhere else
I think the shoes thing just depends on the people. I'm in the UK, I have a few friends who have really nice carpets and prefer people to take their shoes off so they just politely ask. The majority of people who's houses I go to don't care about shoes being on. I'd always check the bottom of my shoes and wipe them on the mat before going in of course.
i feel like this is a random bunch of misconceptions and half truths about all around the world stuff and only has partial connection to specyfic countries of europe but not the whole europe
The video you are commenting on is far from the truth, I am English, I grew up in London but now live in a rural area, it takes some getting used to visitors just wandering in. Much of the rest of it appears to have been invented. I see from the comments that some people think it is rude to enter someone's home with shoes on, I can only think of one example (family) that insists on no shoes. Certainly we would not dream of asking visitors to remove their shoes. In general pointing at people is considered rude here but it is not any sort of rule.
hahah the kissing on the cheeks in France is definitely something to get used to. A cute girl, who was the younger sister of a music artist I am acquaintence with, did their custom with me too. Surprised me for sure! But I was cool with it. 😎
I thought it was what 'european' behaviors (as if that was one thing) would be considered rude somewhere else, half those comparisons with asia came off as that seems rude to me as an european when I travel to it, which is like taking the concept of the video and flipping it on its head lol (also as if there was one asian behavior... )
