What makes you like...

[Savage]

What makes you like Swedes, English, Russians , Spaniards, Greeks , Germans usw.?

Beware that this thread does not consider with potential non-liking or negative imperessions of any nation. If that is the only option one have, please make another thread on it.

The Englishmen that I know, and that I like, are of the cultivated kind, because of their openmindedness, high and deep knowledges, and also their comfortable behavior.

The Danes I like, not only for their liberal ability to enjoy life, and the fruits thereof, but also as a nation that is feed up with beeing usurpated, and rises its voice about it.

Those Italians I know, not only for their esthetical sense, their fondness of familylife, but also their loyalty and generousity towards friends.

The Polacks I like for withouth them, Norway would stop up. Their will and ability to work hard, and their all round craftmanship. The polish females I also like for their highly cultivated esthetical sense.

The Russians I like for their ability to survive under tough conditions, their turbulent and oppressive history.

The Finns I like for their sisu, their down to earth realism, their love for their nation and country, and proven will to fight for it. The Finns are in their own class, " Badjævlar" or not.

The Germans I like for their rational radicalism, and also their ability to make practice out of theories. To some degree I also may appreciate some of their ability to systematize and order things. I also like the sounds of the german language, specially by females, in private occations.

I like the French for their insistive egocentism, their brandies and wines.

More to come...

[Holden Caulfield]

Originally Posted by Savage

The Englishmen that I know, and that I like, are of the cultivated kind, because of their openmindendedness, high and deep knowledges, and also their comfortable behavior.

Why thank you.

On the topic: Loud/antisocial behaviour, distrust of foreigners, binge drinking, and tendency to fight over trivial matters are what makes us English.

I, of course, am not such a person however. :p

Edit: I like Irish people. Because...well they're just cool.

Edit again: Spanish people are pretty cool aswell. And the French, despite the animosity that exists between our countries.

[Savage]

The Greeks I like for their warmhearthed empathy, and generousity. Also for what one could call loyalty to friends, and of course, their great and glorious history. I also invoke Pan and the Company of Heaven (garden of Eros) on a regular basis, and the energies of Pan, are quite handy to roll forth...
IO PAN, PAN, PAN! IO PAN!

The Croatians I like for their practical sense, and also their respect for common sense. Even their macholike culture came good out, during their latest liberation war.

The Serbs I like for their unconventional ways of thinking, and also their courage and bravery to rise up against USA/UK/UN. Also the Serbian peoples intention of sending the muslims out of Serbia must be considered to take the consequenzes of confronting a serious problem. The fearlessness of being condemned of the european political correct hollowchorus is also a momentum that gains my respect.

The Spaniards I like for their artists ability to syntize spiritual life with political realities, which have given birth to much of the surrealistic arts. Quite spicy nation, political. And I like spanish red wines especially of Rioja.
Spanish liberalism is also a quite surprising paradox.


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[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by Savage

What makes you like Swedes, English, Russians , Spaniards, Greeks , Germans usw.?

Groups I like-
Greeks- they hate turks and Serbs have never had problems with them since the early 1300s.
Romanians- never had problems with them historically (except briefly after WWI regarding the division of Banat).
Armenians- they're not europeans but they hate Turks.
Slovenians- only South Slavic group in the balkans that are an actual nation that Serbs haven't had problems with.
montenegrins, gorani- no probelm with montenegrins -- except the idiots who claim their not Serbs. Gorani - no problem with them even though their muslim.
Bosniaks- problems with msot of them. however, quite a few are ok individuals.
slovaks- I don't know why. Probably because in the town in Serbia where I live 20%+ of the population is Slovak.
Fr- i have no explanation why.
Iberian people- probably because they experienced a longer period of Muslim occupation then the people in the Balkans did (700 years or so) and unlike those in the Balkans they expelled them. Sadly recently muslims recently started combing back to their lands.
Italians- no problems. Probably because although I dislike mussolini's decision to participate in Hitler's invasion of Yugoslavia their presence proved to be helpful to Serb survival in Croatia.
Russians, ukrainians, belarussians- can't explain why. Seems natural for some one from Serbia to like them.

[Herceg-Bosna]

I like everyone who likes Croatia

[Monolith]

I like Irish and Scottish people because of their mentality and friendship with my people.
I also like Slovaks, Hungarians, Slovenians and Poles.

[Freebooter]

Swedes, Danes, Norwegians - I've loved Nordic mythos since I was young. My local library had copies of the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda which I enjoyed reading. Plus, Opeth is from Sweden!

English - Um... Susi's cool!

Germans - I like Third Reich and pre-Third Reich coins. There is a certain craftsmanship behind German coins, or at least the ones I've seen, that is difficult to find with many other coins.

Spaniards - Our Iberian brothers. What more needs to be said?

Italians - A number of my friends are Italian, despite living in a rather British town, or at least what use to be. They are some of the most welcoming and hospitable people I have ever met.

The French - They have fantastic food, and I admire the general anti-American air that no Frenchman seems to be without. But, on the otherhand, that Theobald guy is French and he's Atlantish...

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Holden Caulfield

Why thank you.

On the topic: Loud/antisocial behaviour, distrust of foreigners, binge drinking, and tendency to fight over trivial matters are what makes us English.

Sounds like Norwegians, exept of my fellow Norwegians tragical and limitlesss naivity towards strangers.

Oh yes, some of us drink like pigs, twist and shout, and fight for the fights sake, its ritualized all over Norway in lesser towns and villages at Saturday night.

I like the Norwegian attitude towards knives. We consider knives as tools, and mostly uses it creative, to shape things. Very unlike the main stock of immigrants, that seems to have no other perspective on knives, than a thing to stab people with.

Norwegian Norwegians extremely rare uses knives as weapons. The prefered and most used weapon by Norwegians, are shotgun, and not rarely the Home Defense`s machinegun AG3! But normally they are wellfeed and sedate...Actually on the brink to decadence....

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Savage

Spanish liberalism is also a quite surprising paradox.

If you refer to the historical context, Liberalism is a wrong and confusing word to use for the Spanish Liberals.

They predate Anglo-Saxon (Classical) Liberalism and it is not related to it.

They coined the world Liberal and named themselves after it. But never used the word liberalism.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

If you refer to the historical context, Liberalism is a wrong and confusing word to use for the Spanish Liberals.

They predate Anglo-Saxon (Classical) Liberalism and it is not related to it.

They coined the world Liberal and named themselves after it. But never used the word liberalism.

By liberalism I refer concise to the liberal laws on drugs, chimps animals/human rights, and the spiritual currents that manifested cubism and surrealism. That is all liberalism as defined in Northern Europe, but the terms and declearations may of course be varied from region to region.

As "Republican" in USA may be associated to conservative, the same term may in Norway be defined as radical or liberal, while the term "Democrate" are associated to the radical rightwing here, not exactly the same way these terms are associated in USA. Historical of course another case.


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[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Savage

By liberalism I refer concise to the liberal laws on drugs, chimps animals/human rights, and the spiritual currents that manifested cubism and surrealism. That is all liberalism as defined in Northern Europe, but the terms and declearations may of course be varied from region to region..

Vive la décadence?

[Ariets]

Croatians & Slovenians - I feel one of them
(generally) British people - maybe they are not pretty, but very cool sense of humour they have. They are also to impulsive.
Bosnians - for Produ
Czechs - for beaties and beer
Russians - dont relly know
Swedes - if i have their blood, they are fine. Nice chicks, bloody sense of humour.
Spanish people - really cool people, like to play and make fun
Magyars - for history
Italians - not all, but generally if i ware one of them i would be one of most proudnest man in the world
many others
Belorussians - For me they are rusinised Poles They must be Polish haha
and many more...

[Susi]

Portugese: Vasconcelos is aweomse... right?
Spanish: Mynydd and seafood
Italians: really nice. good cuisine and art. beautiful country
Germans: music, food, culture, art, cake.
Slovenians: amazingly openarmed and welcoming people. amazing cuisine. beautiful countryside.
Serbs: I like Crvena. And they seem very passionate people
Croats: Hrovje is nice. They seem outgoing, I guess?
English: Just because.
Irish: Only when they're not whining about the Northern bit. I'd give it back to them in a heartbeat.
Scottish: Incomprehensibleness
Welsh: Mountains
Danish: Ljubo and boringness and Lego

I coould talk more. But I don't feel like it.

[Theobald]

The Germans - Ah, the Germans... They are so close to my heart, as an Alsatian. I love them because in spite of hundreds years of senseless and endless brotherwars we are finally the best friends in Europe, what we, the two heirs of the Carolingian Empire, should always have been.

I like them because they have always made me feel like I was at home, unlike what people spreading clichés about Germany would like us to believe. I especially like the Western, Rhenan and Southern regions, the traditionally Catholic Germany, where the cultural atmosphere is so close to that of Alsace. Baden-Baden, Offenburg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Munchen, ...

I admire their rationalism, their "cartesianism", as Savage put it "their ability to systematize and order things". I like them for Goethe and their other great writers and poets, for romanticism.

"La France et l'Allemagne sont les deux ailes de l'Occident. Qui brise l'une empêche l'autre de voler."


The Irish - I just love the Irish for their spirit, this fighting spirit, Catholic, proud, patriotic, courageous, passionate, a bit fatalist, and their spiritual strength. I admire their 800-years-long resistance. I like their poetry, their literature and their music. Their landscapes are wonderful as well.

I also like them, of course, for obvious historical reasons and for their francophilia. They are the only Nation who has never been at war with France. They have always been our faithful allies, from Boyne to the Irish Brigade or the Napoleonic wars.

"On chercherait en vain deux nations dont les peuples ont plus de trait de ressemblance, et davantage de passions et de préjugés en commun, que la France et l'Irlande."


The Italians - I love the Italians for their art de vivre, their culture. I love the Italians for their cusine, for pasta and for pizza, for their coffee, for their wines. I like them for Dante and Machiavelli, for the beauty of their historical cities, Firenze, Venezia, Pisa, Sienna, Roma, Verona, their Roman and medieval monuments and heritage; and the beauty, the "sex-appeal" of their women and their "esthetical sense". I enjoy this so particular Italian "atmosphere", in which I feel so foreign and so at home at the same time. And their hospitality is proverbial. Also, the sound of their language, when spoken by females, is just delightful. I just love the Italian language.

"Un homme qui n'aime pas l'Italie est toujours plus ou moins un barbare."


I like the Poles for their historical loyalty towards France; I like and respect the Spaniards, the Russians and peoples of the Balkans because we owe them the Christian nature of modern Europe; I like the Romanians for their francophilia, the Scots for the Auld Alliance; I like the Hungarians because I found Budapest so beautiful; I like the Croats for their resistance, for Vukovar, the Serbs for their resistance as well and Kosovo; I like the Greeks for their philosophy, that is the basis of European civilization.

And, even though I despise England as a Nation, I must admit that I've met quite a few cultivated, nice English fellows, whom I respect.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Savage

By liberalism I refer concise to the liberal laws on drugs, chimps animals/human rights, and the spiritual currents that manifested cubism and surrealism.

I do however not suggest that cubism and surrealism are initiated by chimps on drugs, even if some may percept it is if it were?



Perhaps especially Picassos works?

Neither are Dali`s and Bunuels surrealistic universes of symbols, archetypes and dreamworks too easy defineable either...

Quite a bite of radical philosohy and political/religious confrontations involved?

What do you think, Mynydd?

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[Erasmus]

I love all European peoples (except brits*