How to distinguish people from different European countries?

[IanH]

In my experience, if you go to a house party, full of people from different countries...

...the French girls will be by the door smoking, the Frenchman will be inspecting everything in your drawers while shaking his head and muttering.

the dutch will be confidently telling jokes in english, and stooping to walk between rooms due to their enormity. the dutch girls will have taken off their shoes and socks and probably be smoking your pot plants.

the germans will have conjured up a bottle of jaegermeister from somewhere and be playing a drinking game with the danes and scots

a swedish guy will have his top off and be chatting to a throng of czech girls who havent even taken their coats off, and there's probably a norweigan drinking moonshine in the corner with a couple of welsh girls.

the greeks will all be dancing around a pot of hummus and there will be a beautiful hungarian girl with an entourage of short haired, fat necked blokes swigging directly from a shoe.

one of the belgians will be dipping anything they can get their hands on in mayonnaise and hanging around the french girls, and the other will be smelling the dutch girls' socks

the italian girls will be talking about football and eating anything sweet, and the italian men will be eating small cubes of parmesan and sleazily making advances on any blonde haired girl.

The Spanish couple will arrive at about 3am and immediately complain about the fact you have a carpet and then try and stick some reggaeton on.

nobody invited the russians

 

[Stagat]

can u distinguish between people from different chinese regions

Xinjiang vs. Xizang vs. Beijing/Shanghai/Guangzhou etc. is easy

 

[JaseTheVillain]

All French people smoke. If MM denies that one he is lying.

And like garlic.

They tend to smell of it in my experience.

 

[mistermagic]

What are your feelings on cheese and snails? Not necessarily together.

Didn't think much of cheese growing up but I love it now. Snails is alright at Christmas. It's not that big a deal. Certainly not on the level of cheese with a glass of red wine (which I don't like).

All French people smoke. If MM denies that one he is lying.

True dat. We have a big problem with that. People in the UK and Germany don't smoke in comparison.

Woah woah woah, I call bullshit. Exhibit A: French onion soup. Exhibit B: Le Tour de France .

I have no idea what exhibit A is and no frog has won the TdF (which is utter crap anyway) in years (I think). We let the Brits dope themselves up and toss beer on them instead. We're classy like that.

the French girls will be by the door smoking, the Frenchman will be inspecting everything in your drawers while shaking his head and muttering.

Also very true.

 

[lordofthepies]

the TdF (which is utter crap anyway)

WOAH, hold on.

No.

 

[sl1k]

Didn't think much of cheese growing up but I love it now. Snails is alright at Christmas. It's not that big a deal. Certainly not on the level of cheese with a glass of red wine (which I don't like).

My ol man is a try everything once kinda guy, said snails were alright. Weren't too big on the texture of it though, apparently.

You don't like cheese and red wine? Do you even French bro?

 

[blade1889]

I play a compilation of eurovision songs and see which ones they dance to

 

[liu]

I don't think you can. You can only make educated guesses, but there are always people who go against the stereotype grains. Going back to your example about East Asians, I can identify things like the different styles of makeup between a Chinese female and a Korean one or a Japanese guy's haircut and facial hair or the fact that many middle aged Korean people wear certain brands and colours of hiking clothes. However, it's impossible to know for sure.

The most obvious difference, of which a) you are probably aware of and b) is very much a concrete stereotype, is that Northern Europeans have fair hair and blue eyes as opposed to Southern Europeans have black or dark brown hair and brown eyes. This is more evident in some countries than most, though. Italian and French people tend to dress a bit smarter/better than us and the Germans, in my opinion. Might be from my own personal experiences too, but I have found Eastern European females to use lighter more subtle tones of makeup than our ladies too.

Worth noting that there are a lot more countries in Europe than East Asia. So while you can make a better guess at nailing down a specific nationality of someone in East Asia, nailing down a region in Europe is probably more achieveable.

Good point. I started to think that maybe it is more like people from different regions in China, like what Ian pointed out, it is hard to tell.

But, even I cannot be 100% sure about East Asians, I believe I can achieve at least 95/100.

 

[liu]

The last one, the one about nose and the one about seldom fat still work.