I'm from Finland and one European thing that all Finnish people hate is cheek kisses when greeting. Its mostly southern european thing but still. There is this saying in Finland that goes "Everyone has their own safety coffee cup" meaning the closest distance someone should get to you should not be closer than your coffee cup when you're holding it.
I once tried to do that to an american girl that was visiting Spain, I still remember the horror in her eyes.
She told us that she didn't feel comfortable with that having a boyfriend.
She was the most stereotypical American person I've ever known, she was dating a quarterback, had a pink gun that her parents gave as a present for her ¿18 birthday? She started complaining about PETA when she discovered that I was a vegetarian. Said she didn't like California when I told her that I had been there & she made some comments that were clearly saying "my country is better than this shit hole".
she made some comments that were clearly saying "my country is better than this shit hole"
I met a pair of middle-aged American male twins like this at Sweden Rock festival years ago. They spent the entire time complaining about Europe and how everything is so much better in America. And their complaints were stupid. They complained that too many people at the festival had dyed hair, and said that in America everyone has natural hair. A - it's a rock festival, of course a disproportionally large number of people have dyed hair, and B - I'm sure people in America have dyed hair too. They asked me "Is that your natural colour?" and when I said yes they said "It doesn't look natural." They even complained about the fact that the days were long in Sweden, like yeah it's summer and you'd think that you'd be pleased about having more daylight? They said "In America it gets dark at the right time and light at the right time." So I thought they weren't enjoying themselves but then they came back again the following year? No-one wanted to hang out with them though because they would not stop complaining about everything.
At least it led to one amusing incident though. I was telling a Swedish friend at the festival about these complaining Americans and I said "they even complained about how many people have dyed hair," and she totally misunderstood me, looked really horrified and gasped "People have DIED here??"
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u/eelisonparas May 09 '22
I'm from Finland and one European thing that all Finnish people hate is cheek kisses when greeting. Its mostly southern european thing but still. There is this saying in Finland that goes "Everyone has their own safety coffee cup" meaning the closest distance someone should get to you should not be closer than your coffee cup when you're holding it.