Wow. Didn't you just say you react negatively to people in your continent being generalised and stereotyped? But you're generalising the whole of Europe with all of its economic variations as being so desperate for money that they'll 'suck up' to American tourists?
OP - I'm English, and in my experience (excluding Essex) Europeans are less fake in their appearance. Other than that, I couldn't vouch for the rest of what you're saying.
Dom180 - before you kick off, I have no problem stereotyping, and never said I did :)
I think you've got me wrong. All I meant was that there is an explanation for their apparent warmer personalities besides that idea that they're just nicer people (that they're just nicer people is, for me, a really unsatisfying explanation).
We live in a capitalist society where emotion work is a very well documented phenomena. If I am making any criticisms, they're of the capitalist society not the European people.
I didn't actually get the impression from the OP's post that he thinks Europeans are 'warmer' - he just says they 'know how to respect men'. This sounds more to me like he's kind of sexist and prefers the submissive attitude of East Europeans to the independent attitude of Americans and Brits. Russian, Greek, Romanian, Ukrainian, Czech, and Polish girls in particular are definitely more traditional in their gender-roles. Still not buying the whole financial incentive thing though.
I wouldn't know whether Eastern European and Mediterranean women were more interested in traditional gender roles, although my general impression was also that the original post was sexist.
I didn't get the warmth impression from the OP, though. I only mentioned warmness in my replies to green_boogers, not in my original comment to the original post.
When you go to a foreign country, most of the local people you meet are paid to provide you a service. Restaurant staff, hotel staff, people who work in the tourist industry... these are all people who are literally paid to be nice to you. Unless you go off the beaten track, you might not talk to a single person who *isn't* paid to be nice to you. I just don't think it's fair to use these people as examples to say anything about the culture they are from.
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For one: sucking up to foreign travelers = money.
Wow. Didn't you just say you react negatively to people in your continent being generalised and stereotyped? But you're generalising the whole of Europe with all of its economic variations as being so desperate for money that they'll 'suck up' to American tourists?
OP - I'm English, and in my experience (excluding Essex) Europeans are less fake in their appearance. Other than that, I couldn't vouch for the rest of what you're saying.
Dom180 - before you kick off, I have no problem stereotyping, and never said I did :)
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I think you've got me wrong. All I meant was that there is an explanation for their apparent warmer personalities besides that idea that they're just nicer people (that they're just nicer people is, for me, a really unsatisfying explanation).
We live in a capitalist society where emotion work is a very well documented phenomena. If I am making any criticisms, they're of the capitalist society not the European people.
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I didn't actually get the impression from the OP's post that he thinks Europeans are 'warmer' - he just says they 'know how to respect men'. This sounds more to me like he's kind of sexist and prefers the submissive attitude of East Europeans to the independent attitude of Americans and Brits. Russian, Greek, Romanian, Ukrainian, Czech, and Polish girls in particular are definitely more traditional in their gender-roles. Still not buying the whole financial incentive thing though.
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I wouldn't know whether Eastern European and Mediterranean women were more interested in traditional gender roles, although my general impression was also that the original post was sexist.
I didn't get the warmth impression from the OP, though. I only mentioned warmness in my replies to green_boogers, not in my original comment to the original post.
When you go to a foreign country, most of the local people you meet are paid to provide you a service. Restaurant staff, hotel staff, people who work in the tourist industry... these are all people who are literally paid to be nice to you. Unless you go off the beaten track, you might not talk to a single person who *isn't* paid to be nice to you. I just don't think it's fair to use these people as examples to say anything about the culture they are from.