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Originally posted by St_Andrew yeah, very true, but you miss one thing, take for exampel an southern US state and compare it to a nothern, you will find big diffferneces there too! yet you would never doubt to talk about one american culture!

As you would in Northern and southern Sweden, Switzerland, Swaziland or where ever.

If there isn't any European culture, there certainly isn't any American. Only a western one. There a lot bigger cultural differences within Europe than lets say between England and USA for example.


About the northern/ southern Europe thing....

Well I figured that out because I live in Italy and because I have lived most of my life in Stockholm. Hence I deem myself capable of making a judgement of the difference in mentality between the two soceities. Especially when its something this obvious.

I don't see the relevance of that article in this discussion because we were talking about a mentality not actual hours worked.

What I ment to say was that northern europeans generally speaking focus more, too much if you ask me, on work careers etc, while southern Europeans tend to have a more laid back attitude and are better at enjoying life. This is my opinion and also a well known stereotype.

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Originally posted by Heinz germanies the best, they sell beer in mc. donalds, have the best highways, cars, and music. and what does america have?? 2000 nucleur warheads and a president looking for something to use them on??

then what are you doing in Tampa Bay, Florida then?

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Originally posted by TuanAnh213 then what are you doing in Tampa Bay, Florida then?

LOL, beat me to it. Perhaps they shipped all the religious fundamentalists and nutters out of Germany, and dumped them in the US?

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Originally posted by arctic LOL, beat me to it. Perhaps they shipped all the religious fundamentalists and nutters out of Germany, and dumped them in the US?

Let he who hath not sinned cast the first stone, or some other bible quote like that.

Cows go moo.

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Originally posted by Virus As you would in Northern and southern Sweden, Switzerland, Swaziland or where ever.

exactly my point, there is a lot of differences within countries, but just because that they are countries you tend to speak about one culture. For example Stockholm's culture is a lot more american (place work in first place, privatize everything etc,) meanwhile Göteborg is more European, taking life in first place, and then work in last place (yes i am generalizing now but that is about how it is..).

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If there isn't any European culture, there certainly isn't any American. Only a western one. There a lot bigger cultural differences within Europe than lets say between England and USA for example.

Europeans seem to place the people, life, equality, social security and justice in first place, and America tends to place the individual, work and money in first place. again i am generalizing, but that is about the differences you can tell, there is a lot more but those vary a lot within regions, booth in america and in europe.

Those differences are mainly political but they seem to mirror the society in whole. But of course you could say that for example sweden is a lot like america with all the american influence (more mcdonalds/inhabitant than anywhere else, almost only american movies, etc etc etc etc...)

(you meant "If there isn't any American culture, there certainly isn't any European", right?)

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Originally posted by arctic LOL, beat me to it. Perhaps they shipped all the religious fundamentalists and nutters out of Germany, and dumped them in the US?

And we are getting Burger King, Mcdonalds and little bushites from you guys

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Originally posted by nic01445 Europeans have small penises.

For you americans

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Originally posted by Heinz germanies the best, they sell beer in mc. donalds, have the best highways, cars, and music.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaa,SCOoooooo TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAr!!!!!!!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol
sorry i dont know why but this is the first thing that poped up to my head when i saw your post.

s.0.s.

plz st0p generalizing!!!

eurepeans, not europeans, differences, american& co.

I think differences among western countries nowadays are minimal; same lifestyle, sometimes different languages, mostly same capitalistic economy; somebody starts talking ab0ut post-globalization.
co0l people and bad people are everywhere, maybe speak different languages, but have the same way to have fun.
Are the Minds create differences and not the differences to create the mindS

agAinst every b0undAries

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Originally posted by Virus You simply cannot make these kind of generalisations when talking about Europe. There is no 'European culture'. Europe consists of alot of cultures with alot of different mentalities. While there certainly is a laid-back attitude in Italy (especially in the south) thats far from the truth in the northern European countries. In Stockholm, Sweden there is at least as hectic a mentality as in New York or wherever.

hAve you ever been in s0uthern Italy or in s0uthern Spain?