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What's your favourite other European country to visit and why? (feddit.dk)

submitted 7 months ago by EvilCartyen@feddit.dk to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] apis@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tbh the reputed rudeness was usually just brusqueness, only a mode amongst some of the population (with just as many or more being utterly charming), and had largely ceased to be a thing over 20 years ago.

[–] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, Danes are also famously direct, so I think it comes off as pretty normal to us. No need to waste too much time beating around the bush.

[–] apis@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I'd say that French brusqueness was softer than Danish.

Faffing around overly seems rude to me - too much scope for misunderstanding when one have to hope the other person has read between the lines as one intended them.