Asian Was Shocked by The Things that ONLY EUROEPAN Can Understand!! 

"finland is famous for introverted people" *stays silent for the rest of the video* how on brand

German guy going “it needs to be designated” is the most German thing I’ve seen all day.

The idea to do the whole Europe in one go is.... ambitious to say the least. European countries are more contrasted than US states. Two French cities can be more dissimilar that a pairing of one French city and a German one. Honestly even one country... I am French and it's clear to me that I'll die having missed huge chunks of important places to experience in France.

7:05 Germany has 3 weeks of vacation? No we don't. The absolute minimum - by law - is 20 days of vacation for a 5-day week, so 4 weeks MINIMUM. If you have a 6-day week, it is bumped up to 24 days, so still 4 weeks MINIMUM. But most people get 30 days for a 5-day week, so 6 weeks!

I felt it so much when the Spanish girl called the germans out for their lack of beach garments. 😆

"T-shirts and sometimes long pants on the beach" lol , i can't even imagine that in my country 😂

As a Dutch person I've never heard of two kisses with an aquaintance. From my experience: Family on like a birthday, family gathering = three kisses (right, left, right) Friends / closest family = hug / one kiss on the cheek Unfamiliar / more formal setting / friend of a friend = handshake for first meeting. When you've gotten more familiar with people on an informal level a hug will also do when saying goodbye Also I feel like the girl representing The Netherlands is referring to bigger cities like Amsterdam mostly. We do have cars and parking is way easier (and free/cheaper) outside of the cities.

11:54 that girl in the back just dissapeared after saying 'bye' 😂

In Germany you have everything from all kind of hugs, hand shaking, kissing on checks in all variations. It just depends on the bubbles, regions etc... but in cities you have usually all variations.

I think Spain is a really heterogeneous country, I live in the north so we usually don’t have AC. We have a cold and rainy weather and we usually buy a floor fan that we can save in a closet the rest of the year. About tap water, here you can ask for it on a bar or coffee shop, and normally they’ll give it to your for free, maybe in biggest cities is like she’s saying, for example, when I was in Madrid I needed to pay for other product to get free tap water. Cold water? We usually have it, not in all supermarkets but on bars, yes, cold water is available most of the times. About driving license, we usually have manual cars and the license, is with manual too.

There is no legal age limit on drinking alcohol in Germany (though giving your kid alcohol outside of medicine will of course still get child protection services involved). You are allowed to drink in public from age 14 if an adult guardian is present (parent or someone who got put as your guardian by your parents), purchase beer and wine from age 16 and buy hard alcohol from age 18

The Dutch girl says that the Netherlands has more electric cars than fossil fuel cars is not correct. It is true that more electric cars are sold than fossil cars. The Netherlands has the highest number of electric charging stations in the EU, estimated at around 400,000. The goal is to install one million charging stations. She is right about the parking spaces. No more parking spaces are being created in new residential areas and the municipality of Amsterdam is removing 10,000 parking spaces in the city. Parking is also expensive up to a maximum of €7.50 per hour.

In italy nobody serve tap water because if you want drink only some tap water you can drink it everywhere... there are many public points with free water. You can fill a bottle in too Every city, town or little area has many of these little free fountains

So happy to see Bulgaria represented 🥰🥰🇧🇬

The Austrian forgot to mention that WE have 5 Werks vacation and 13 national Holidays.also WE have 2 extra wages each year

7:43 Also important to point out: if you're confirmed sick during vacation time you can get that time "refunded". Like those days can't be counted as vacation day because you're sick and thus can't relax.

this must be the most wholesome and respectful channel I came across for a long time. It's so good to learn about other cultures and people. And getting to know each other makes us feel closer and relatable to each other. Thank you for coming up with this idea.

I think the handshake is the best way to greet someone as Joshua said , i usually don't hug or kiss anyone even if someone that i know , but nothing so cold as Finland saying a slow "hi" 3 or 4 meters of distance 😂

Paying a bit for toilet is fine because it is clean. In petrol stations it is smelly but free.

I dont know where the Spanish girl lives but in the Spain that i live we use the Aircon a lot, specially in summer.

18:39 actually in spain it's illigal to deny someone a cup of water, it's free by law, like in the UK

Hey world friends you might not see this but thanks for sharing peoples culture around the world and y’all encourage me to learn more about languages so thanks again for brightening up my day with your videos and sorry what I did the other day but if you know you know no questions asked

“polish summers aren’t that warm” meanwhile poland at 35°c

kissing in the Netherlands from my experience (outside the Randstad) is that you give 3 kisses in specific social settings, like when greeting friends and family at a party but I don't do it when I greet people at work or when I pass someone on the street. Also it's usually not done between men. so men will give women kisses but give another man just the handshake. + I never heard about the kissing rule the girl in the video mentioned. You can decide to give just one kiss if you feel like it or even none if you don't want to but there are no rules deciding how many.

To compare the days off and stuff. I am working in Germany and average work days in my state are about 220-225 a year for employees. 24 days paid leave is minimum in full time job by law, most companies give around 30 days. Since I am working shift, going 365 days a years, 24h they give 8 extra days leave. Extra days or hours working you can decide if you want to have it paid (including bonus for extra hours, holiday, Sunday, night bonus) or have it converted into hours for extra leave. Since I am married with two kids and lower tax rate I mostly decide for pay out these hours. Other colleagues who aren’t married often take the time. If you are sick for the first 6 weeks the employer keeps paying. After six weeks the health insurance will cover 60% of your salary. My employer will fill this 40% gap depending on the time you are inside the company, for 10 years inside the company its maximum 1 year. Having two working mates that had cancer it was a huge benefit for them.

I have never seen the exchange thing after paying for the toilet in Poland tbh, but also never been to a mall in Poland that makes you pay for toilet. As I live in Poland since I was born and have been to a lot of cities it is kinda crazy. Tho I have seen that system in Germany for example while traveling.

Since the Swedish girl vanished. Tap water is free in scandinavia, sparkling or iced may cost you about 1€, still cheaper than soda or beer. In most restaurants a can of water and toilet visit is included in the service. If you ask politely you may get to use restrooms for free despite not being a customer, but then it's common to give a coin anyway. Nude beaches, is a thing, but unless it's a public beach skinny-dipping is common, topless is also fully legal and quite normal, but keep the bottom part on. Drinking age in Sweden is 18, but buying hard liqour above 3.5%, it's 20, so you can basically not get drunk unless you go to the pub at 18 or wait until you are 20, unless you chug down a 6-pack 50ml 3.5% in the sauna fast.

This video IS very interesting ! I love that that you all sharing your culture. I think the world would be better if everyone share there culture like they do in this video. With no judgement and acceptation that other don't live in the same way than us.

Most of European have their vacation paid every yr.

i believe they havent been in their home countries for quite some time, i dont remember any time in my life when you pay for bathrooms in poland (im 32), and in sweden i havent seen paid bathrooms for at least 10 years. I remember once there was girl from Latvia, who also said that in latvia all public toilets are paid, but for like past 20 years its only train stations and bus stations.

The Italian girl marked yes for paying for restrooms. Not really. You won't hve to pay in gas stations, malls, restaurants and cafes, of course. There are some automatic booths restrooms in historical areas and in some big train stationswhere you have to pay,.

Lol I thought that 3-4 weeks of paid vacation was not a lot. I guess that as a European I'm pampered 😆

I'm from Finland and when I greet with close friends we hug. With my family we hug only if we see each other after a long time. With friends not that close and some acquaintances we just wave and say hi. But I guess it depends on person. edit: and by the way, in Finland in most restaurants (at least in the metropolitan area where I live) we do have to pay for the water.

In Austria holiday is at least 5 weeks, after 25 years working for the same employer you get 6 weeks, paid sick leave too up to several month

We definitely have to pay at a lot of the public restrooms in the Netherlands. That Dutch girl held up the wrong side of the paddle.

Bravo Illy🙌🙌🙌🙌👏. Love from Bulgaria🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬

i love all these "aaaahs" and "oooohs" 😂 very cool concept, all these differences 🎉

French accent is so cute ❤ I can’t 😊

In Montenegro, you don't pay for the toilet (maybe some nightclubs have a woman to whom you leave a tip, but that's not the rule), free tap water (we even have public water stations where bottles can be filled), we only pass the driver's license on a manual transmission, but then we drive both automatics and electrics. We hug, kiss, shake hands, it depends on the mood and degree of closeness (although I am Finnish "school"). State companies have 21 paid vacation days, but with weekends it's a month, but if you've worked for 15 or 20 years, you get extra days. Or if you do some dangerous work, you get 30 working days. By law, private companies must give a minimum of 20 working days. But that depends on the employer, the working hours... But if you are sick, you can take sick leave, it is not taken away from your vacation days. You can also take a day off. We have very hot summers, and we use AC (spring has started and the temperature here is 30 degrees) when it's winter one part of the country has a mild climate (the central part and the sea coast) and the north of the country is under snow. So the AC is used for both heating and cooling, although many people heat with wood in the winter. We have nudist beaches, on normal ones it is not very often that someone is topless, but it is common for women to wear a thong as the bottom part of their swimsuit.

The AC in Spain It depends on where you live, I can asure you that most of Andalucía can't survive the summer without it.

In the 21 years I've lived in Finland I've barely seen bathrooms you need to pay to use, and the ones that have been like that are either in super touristy spots or at railway stations. Mall bathrooms are free, at restaurants you probably need to be a customer but tbh with the free mall bathrooms I've never had that issue. I have no idea where that Finnish person is from, most of my knowledge is from the capital area but even when I've travelled to other towns it hasn't been an issue to find a free bathroom. So I wouldn't say their reply is accurate, paid bathrooms are rare compared to the free ones.

In France in restaurant water is free in the "pichet" tap water, but if you ask a bottle you will pay

I remember ditching school one time at recess in Belgium with a buddy. We went to the bar across the street and ordered a beer, which we drank. We were 10 or 11 years old at the time.

I agree with this matter about paying the parking here in Europe. It is very common here in Europe that even in public places you need to pay 1st your parking before you may go. Or else the penalty is waving for you.😅 Because we visit some Europe countries and also we are currently living here in Europe.

19:09 australia is now in europe according to the subtitles!

You cannot just have 14 people in one video and expect me to remember where is each from, man TwT

Shopping malls in Finland have free public toilets. However in restaurants you have to be a customer to use it.

In Australia we get 4 weeks annual leave plus 2 week public holidays.

I guess that we can show respect by bow, and we can show fraternity and loyalty by handshake and we can show deeper friendship and apreciation between friends and family by hug or emotional warmth by kiss. :)

in germany you have minimum 30 payed holiday days... this is minimum 6 weeks... i have 40 days in my company because 5 days extra for handicap :)

In Indonesia the legal drinking age is 21 years old. 17 years old is when we get our ID cards. But like most countries many people just don't care about the rules. 😆

In Spain we have nude beaches separated from others. In Barcelona you can’t go in the street with bikini or without t-shirt. lol I use ac it’s so hot in summer…

In Stuttgart today we have 29 C but it is the last summer day of April for 2024.

Europe is so diverse and yet so close.. ❤

Regarding the hugging for greeting as an european, in normal day not usual unless it's family, but in some friend groups or some social activities it becomes part of it. In my hobby you even greet strangers sometimes with a hug when they are friends with your friends or you had a good talk and hug before leaving.

I kinda find it crazy how we can all speak or at least semi speak a common language when were all so different

damn i love joshuas deep voice ❤

Paid vacation Germany: at least 4 weeks (20 work days) by law , not 3 weeks, like he said. Most people have 6 weeks due to tariff contracts of labor unions.

Spanish girl should come to Dalarna in Sweden to see that we still use traditional clothes a lot! :)

People in Spain really PUT ON the Air conditioner, try to stay on the south of the country on summer at 40°C...😅😅

Minimum vacation time in Germany is 21 days per year and as a work week has only 5 days is not 3 weeks but 4 weeks and 1 day

8:46 Iberian blood, very open hearted 👌

I've never come across a pay-to-go restroom in Poland, and I live here. In train stations you have to pay, though.

The required minimum vacation days in Germany is 20. so effectively you can take more than 3 weeks vacation! Most bigger companies have 30 days as standard

to the drinks, system in belgium is the same as in germany , low % alcohol (but only beer & whine ) 16+ high% alcohol 18+

Europe is a continent of many countries with individual cultures. Not every European country will understand the same cultural references as another European country so these types of comparisons are pointless (I realise it’s all a bit of harmless fun, but still pointless and does not help the understanding of, particularly, visitors from the USA to a European country as they have a hard enough time not understanding the difference between the continent of Europe and a European country and between Europe, which is a continent, and the European Union 🇪🇺, which is a member organisation of only some of the continent of Europe’s countries). Too many times when discussing Europe they only mean Western Europe or EU member countries. This seems to be reflected by the participants here.

Sky juice😂❤️❤️❤️

In Estonia automatic ca 70 & % but if You go work with cargo vans You must drive 90 % are manual gearbox .

13:27 Er zijn maar weinig mensen die een automaat rijden en elektrisch is alleen de norm in rijke milieus omdat ze stik duur zijn. Een beetje elektrische auto is duurder dan het vervangen van de kozijnen van je huis. €30.000 voor een kleine tweedehands is niet heel gek en er zijn ruim voldoende mensen die dat niet hebben liggen. Als je een gezinsauto wilt en geen tesla kunt betalen, dan rijdt je waarschijnlijk een handgeschakelde auto met verbrandingsmotor. We hebben overigens een van de oudste wagenparken van Europa.

In USA fist bumps are now a common greeting. It was happening before, and is more common post covid. And you don't really wave, but there are lots of small hand gestures, head nods and other body language that you deploy as your eyes brush by each other in passing. Says a lot.

Sí hay baños de pago en España, y muchos. Famoso es el de la estación Delicias de Zaragoza

This made me love Europe more

in Italy if we ask some water like a cup, they gave it to us, idk why the Italian girl disagreed

8:33 greeting with kisses is definitely a thing in Germany but I think it’s more common in the older generation. Like my mum would greet acquaintances with 2 kisses on the cheek right to left. Younger generations seem to go for a quick hug instead

Just for Austria I want to mention something. It's unusual to order water in this day and age at restaurants. The reason being is that Austrian tap water is VERY high quality, especially in the capital Vienna. So why would buy something you can get easily at home. I think it is weird she didn't talk about that. The younger generations in general walk around with their refillable water bottles anyway. We don't drink out of it in the restaurant but ordering bottled water without gas is just a waste of money. They charge you as much as 3€ or more for that. Just no. I think other people in the comments mentioned it as well, but we also have 5 or 6 weeks of paid holiday, plus 13th and 14th month of pay. So we get paid at the end of June/July one month (that's the 13th month) extra (because summer is the main vacation time) AND at the end of November/December (Christmas and winter holidays), which is the 14th month.

Costs for using the Toilettes in Europe were introduced in more modern times (from Western-Central Europe slowly spreading). In most of the 20. century you paid also nothing. And asking in a Restaurant or just in a McDonalds moving for free to a Toilette was free. Over time (guess also due to a raising fluctuation and quantity) slowly taking money (for cleaning and/or to prevent an 'over usage' from others) became a thing ....

Joshua talking about Germany not being a traditionally warm country - sweats in Freiburg in Breisgau.

In Germany 24 days payed vacation is minimum by law, I don’t know anyone who has less than 4, 5 weeks off.

in Denmark we have 6 weeks vacation

@9:44 wait what?? No?? I never Kiss people 2 times let alone people i just met or colleagues... I just shake hands with them. Family and friends i do kiss three times and with really good friends we usually hug because unfortunately we don't de eachother a lot.

As I was watching the video I noticed Sofia just disappeared halfway through.

I think in germany you have to pay for the tab water because they still have to clean the glass

fastest train? we are neighbours and we have definitely the slowest one! :D

In France it's even legal to drink under 16 but an adult must be with you ortherwise it's illegal.

Im spanish and a lot of fast food places you need to buy something and use the code with the receipt to use the toilet. But so far I've only seen it at fast food chains.

I just love how most of them already adapted the korean "mhh" 😂

I hate the fact that in Poland you have to pay for public toilets... tbh, there used to be some places where it was free or cheap, but after covid and.. the war it got way more expensive, especially in tourist spots 😑

My country has a law that every restaurant or cafe or bar has to give you a glass of water for free whether you buy something else or you just come for a cup of water and leave. It's mainly because it is really hot in the summer

I totally understand why paying for restrooms is a thing. That money is spent to make sure the facilities stay clean and working. Which is also why the "nice lady asking for a tip" is a thing.

Someone says something: - Instantly everyone else: Mh-hmmmm.... 😂😂

'Mhhh, ohhh, yeahhh'😂

In indonesia women get menstrual leave 1 or 2 days. Fathers also get up to 60 days of paternity leave

Sky juice because water is air 😆

außerhalb der autobahnraststätten wird sich das bezahlen für toiletten nicht durchsetzen. allein schon wegen der gesetzeslage , der beschaffungskosten von schleusen & dem backlash der stammkunden.

Vacarion in Germany is 25-30 days, so 5-6 weeks. But not every country will allow you to take it in one go.

I'm Swedish. I hug friends and family and shake hands with acquaintances or strangers I'm introduced to. Well at least I used to shake hands until 2020, then I stopped.

I'm french, I have 5 weeks of paid vacation as everyone, and another 4 weeks for working time reduction and something like 5 other days for various things :)

The Dutch girl is saying you don't have to pay for public toilets but in most cases you do have to pay for public toilets here.

In Britain you’ll pay for the toilet in cities and touristy towns but in any ordinary town it’s free, and yes you generally can’t use a toilet of an establishment if you’re not a customer unless you sneak in.

Der Deutsche hat den deutschen Humor richtig gut raus! 🤣