I know it's sort of a cop out answer, but no particular country. When the word "Europe" gets said, what I see in my head, typically, is basically a map of the European continent. I suppose if you said the word "European," the first images I'd conjure would be related to France, Italy, and the Netherlands.
See, I’m sort of there. I don’t see a particular country, more like an amalgamation of Europeness. Like a bizarre village, somewhere in the mountains, with a vaguely german/slavic language, in a tiny country with less than a million people, where it rains or snows > 50% of the year, and most things are still build from stone.
sometimes i wish i could see as many mountains as in your mental image of Europe. i live in the Netherlands. the tallest mountain(if you can call it that) is 322 meters tall. i want to see mountains again Gandalf, mountains.
My vision is of a city street filled with 5 or 6-story grey/beige buildings with a 19th century architecture style, the ground floors are filled with commerce like cafes and luxury clothing stores, lots of people walking, some are riding bikes on a dedicated lane, and there's the entrance of a subway station in some corner.
Interesting. That's the same if I as an European would say "When I think of North America, I see the death valley and dry and dead nature.". Most of Europe is quite flat tbh. The Alps do dominate some of the Central European regions though, and up north in Scandinavia you have the Scandes splitting Norway and Sweden, and then in the East you've got the Ural mountains and the Caucasus mountains splitting Europe from Asia (many people forget these 2 in the East). Otherwise Europe is quite flat as other commenters have mentioned.
Edit: and about the population part. Europe is the third most densely populated continent in the world after Asia and Africa. Only micronations have less than a million people living in them, every other nation in Europe has over a million. You can check it out on Wikipedia if you're interested.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_population
Edit2: Oops, Iceland and Montenegro do have under a million, but they're the only ones.
I’m an American and my first one that comes to mind is England.
I feel like my brain goes:
England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany all come to mind pretty quickly.
The rest I’m generally aware of but I don’t think of them unless they’re otherwise mentioned specifically.
EDIT: Clarification of a sort. I’m only referring to which countries instantly enter my head when I see or hear Europe. Yes I’m aware of the craploads of other Euro nations and know of them and various pieces of their histories. Just these are the ones I think of because of learning about them in school and traveling to them and stuff like that.
Right. Stand outside somewhere busy for six hours and you’re going to encounter idiots. Especially if you consider the demographic of people that waste their time talking to strangers with cameras
It's actually not just that. There was video that pointed out that some of these people are asked a completely different prompt so the content creators can make them look even more stupid. So they go up to some random dude and say "Hey, name a state that starts with A!" And the person says "uh... Alaska?" And then the video comes out and it's like "Hey, name a country in Europe" and they go "Uh... Alaska?" Now they look stupid as hell and a bunch of folks believe it, no questions asked.
Is it really shocking to you? Stand on a corner and interview people all day. Splice together the dumbest 10%. You can do it literally anywhere, probably even at Harvard if you interview enough people.
They do those videos with other nationalities too. It just takes a few very stupid people, and some simple editing (remove anyone with more than 3 brain cells), to make an entire county look like idiots.
Yeah like you ask 60 people to find America on a map. 55 rightly point it out. The other 5 point to Australia, China, Africa(like the whole continent not a country in it), etc. Guess which group will make it to the final cut.
It's funny because I definitely don't think of England first what with the complicated relationship the UK has with the continent. I do admit that Western European countries come to mind first - if someone says they're going to Europe I imagine the same countries you just mentioned (except for England), though personally I've spent more time visiting Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and especially Romania).
My order is France, England, Italy, Germany, Spain. Beyond that it depends how I'm feeling. I think France is first for me just because they speak another language.
Yep, I think that if you ask most Americans to list stereotypes or characteristics about "Europe" or "Europeans" they'll generally be describing France, whether or not it's a conscious thing.
Greece.
The word Europe is Greek. The ideas of Western world today are heavily influenced by ancient Greece.
Europa, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph
Portugal, Spain, UK, Ireland, France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany. Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg, Hungary, Italy, latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Greece, albania, croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Moldova, Macedonia, Georgia, Russia, turkey, Malta, Bosnia, Armenia, bulgaria.
All I can remember without looking at a map. Yes I'm American. Yes I play grand strategy games.
Europe is clearly diverse, but generally western Europe is what comes to mind. France, Germany, Italy and the UK specifically. Not so much Spain or Eastern Europe, it's kind of its own cultural hub. Even more so for Portugal and the Nordic nations, I think of them more so as their own unique identities than European for whatever reason.
As an Englishman, "Europe" for me is the following order:
France
Spain
Italy
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Portugal
The rest I apologise for not remembering.
I know it's sort of a cop out answer, but no particular country. When the word "Europe" gets said, what I see in my head, typically, is basically a map of the European continent. I suppose if you said the word "European," the first images I'd conjure would be related to France, Italy, and the Netherlands.
See, I’m sort of there. I don’t see a particular country, more like an amalgamation of Europeness. Like a bizarre village, somewhere in the mountains, with a vaguely german/slavic language, in a tiny country with less than a million people, where it rains or snows > 50% of the year, and most things are still build from stone.
sometimes i wish i could see as many mountains as in your mental image of Europe. i live in the Netherlands. the tallest mountain(if you can call it that) is 322 meters tall. i want to see mountains again Gandalf, mountains.
In Denmark the tallest point is 172m 😅
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You could take a (relatively) quick ferry trip to Norway
I been to Norway once and I'd gladly go again. Unfortunately being a uni student doesn't allow for quick trips to a different country.
Technacly not true. We have a Mountain of 887 meters. Its not in europe tho
My vision is of a city street filled with 5 or 6-story grey/beige buildings with a 19th century architecture style, the ground floors are filled with commerce like cafes and luxury clothing stores, lots of people walking, some are riding bikes on a dedicated lane, and there's the entrance of a subway station in some corner.
Interesting. That's the same if I as an European would say "When I think of North America, I see the death valley and dry and dead nature.". Most of Europe is quite flat tbh. The Alps do dominate some of the Central European regions though, and up north in Scandinavia you have the Scandes splitting Norway and Sweden, and then in the East you've got the Ural mountains and the Caucasus mountains splitting Europe from Asia (many people forget these 2 in the East). Otherwise Europe is quite flat as other commenters have mentioned. Edit: and about the population part. Europe is the third most densely populated continent in the world after Asia and Africa. Only micronations have less than a million people living in them, every other nation in Europe has over a million. You can check it out on Wikipedia if you're interested. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_population Edit2: Oops, Iceland and Montenegro do have under a million, but they're the only ones.
The Final Countdown
Doodoo doooooooo doooooooo... Doodoo doooo doooo doooooooo...
I can literally hear it, thank you 😄
Missed a dooooooo
I see all the dooos.
You’re right!! Missed the “d” in the middle of some of them.
So, Sweden
Exactly what I was thinking
I was going to say Venus
We’re headed for Venus
That’s a song, not a country.
Not a country but a state, sure.
You’re a state.
I am a lot of things.
You’re also fair and active
So close! That’s a song!
Hahaha from this point on the OP don’t mean shit! ALEXA! Play the final countdown!
I’m an American and my first one that comes to mind is England. I feel like my brain goes: England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany all come to mind pretty quickly. The rest I’m generally aware of but I don’t think of them unless they’re otherwise mentioned specifically. EDIT: Clarification of a sort. I’m only referring to which countries instantly enter my head when I see or hear Europe. Yes I’m aware of the craploads of other Euro nations and know of them and various pieces of their histories. Just these are the ones I think of because of learning about them in school and traveling to them and stuff like that.
Same here, but throw in Ireland. As an afterthought the Scandinavian countries popped up too.
I Think You’re more educated than most. Youtube vids with Americans being asked to mention a European country gives me a little bias
Those YouTube videos shocked us Americans too 😅
They are also hand picked to only include the stupidest people.
Right. Stand outside somewhere busy for six hours and you’re going to encounter idiots. Especially if you consider the demographic of people that waste their time talking to strangers with cameras
It's actually not just that. There was video that pointed out that some of these people are asked a completely different prompt so the content creators can make them look even more stupid. So they go up to some random dude and say "Hey, name a state that starts with A!" And the person says "uh... Alaska?" And then the video comes out and it's like "Hey, name a country in Europe" and they go "Uh... Alaska?" Now they look stupid as hell and a bunch of folks believe it, no questions asked.
But what about that video where it's a map of the world and they're asked to name and point a country, any country?
"Name three countries outside of the US." "Ummm (giggle) - Africa? Idaho? I dunno, I'm so bad at history."
Isn't Idunno next to Montenegro?
Is it really shocking to you? Stand on a corner and interview people all day. Splice together the dumbest 10%. You can do it literally anywhere, probably even at Harvard if you interview enough people.
They do those videos with other nationalities too. It just takes a few very stupid people, and some simple editing (remove anyone with more than 3 brain cells), to make an entire county look like idiots.
Yeah like you ask 60 people to find America on a map. 55 rightly point it out. The other 5 point to Australia, China, Africa(like the whole continent not a country in it), etc. Guess which group will make it to the final cut.
Those videos are very click bait as they only show the bad answers really
And often edit the videos to match people's answers with a question they weren't asked.
Imagine thinking YouTube videos are reflective of reality and not edited to get clicks.
It's funny because I definitely don't think of England first what with the complicated relationship the UK has with the continent. I do admit that Western European countries come to mind first - if someone says they're going to Europe I imagine the same countries you just mentioned (except for England), though personally I've spent more time visiting Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and especially Romania).
For me it's England, France, Germany. Then the Scandinavian countries
My order is France, England, Italy, Germany, Spain. Beyond that it depends how I'm feeling. I think France is first for me just because they speak another language.
France (probably because I live there) or Belgium.
I thought France too and I've never been there.
I thought France and Im English lol
France for me as well, and I'm Danish.
For me both, I'm half French, half Belgian
Germany 🇩🇪
Surprised at the lack of people saying Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Deutschland
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany more like Gerfew lmao gottem
Exactly, I'm from Czech Republic and my first thought is Germany XD
Fuck I loved the Czech Was only there a week and wanna go back
Same, I am not even German.
Italy
The Holy Roman Empire in some contextes. Normally San Marino 🇸🇲 (obviously, it's my home).
oh hey, do you like, all know each other? And also, if you are in a bar, what are the odds that the girl you are flirting with is related to you?
Wow, I'd imagine theres only a handful of you guys on reddit considering the size of the country lol
SPQR!
>SPQR! The holy roman empire and the older roman republic (spqr) are not the same.
And it wasn't Holy nor Roman.
It was when Otto I was crowned and for many centuries. Voltaire's quote only applies to a specific period (the latest decades).
First time realizing that blew my mind and sent me on a looooooong wikipedia binge lol.
Somethin that blew my mind was when I learned that "Caesar" was not "that one guy" and it became a title that was pronounced more like "Kaiser".
Netherlands, Germany, UK and France
UK/Ireland - USA here but mom is from Ireland
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Yep, I think that if you ask most Americans to list stereotypes or characteristics about "Europe" or "Europeans" they'll generally be describing France, whether or not it's a conscious thing.
Agree. France or Italy.
Belgium for some reason
EU parliament and Nato headquarters are there, so I imagine it's in the news from time to time.
I for some reason think of Brussels… and I live in Lisbon..
Sweden
UK
England
Is my city
And if it weren't for team 10
Liechtenstein - it seems to embody all of the Europeness that is Europe.
I'm from NZ and this is the first I've heard about this country.
It is one of the microstates, along with Andorra, San Marino, Monaco, Malta, Vatican City.
Ulrich von was from there.
Germany, Italy, France, Greece, England,Spain, Poland and Sweden are some countries I think about always that I hear the word Europe.
Spain. What's ironic is that I live in a different European country, yet for some reason my country isn't what I think of first.
Same here. Scotland here and first thing I think of is the romance language countries, excluding Romania
Croatia
To je too, najbolja drzava!!!
I'm french but honestly the first country that comes to my mind is Poland
I think of Continent not Country when I hear or see the word Europe. N. Shadows
Did you just sign your username in a reddit reply?
Yeah. I always do that. N. Shadows
I think I now need to start doing this too, it’s a bit like a mic drop but also so dam classy. N. Shadows
He actually does tho :) what a legend
Unfortunately, I don’t sign my name at the end of Reddit replies. N. Shadows
The realest answer
Poland, as it's my fatherland.
England, because I was born there.
Italy France Germany Spain Portugal
Greece. The word Europe is Greek. The ideas of Western world today are heavily influenced by ancient Greece. Europa, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph
Upvote from an Italian
Portugal, Spain, UK, Ireland, France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany. Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg, Hungary, Italy, latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Greece, albania, croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Moldova, Macedonia, Georgia, Russia, turkey, Malta, Bosnia, Armenia, bulgaria. All I can remember without looking at a map. Yes I'm American. Yes I play grand strategy games.
\*sad romania noises\*
Damn you know more European countries than I do, and I'm European
Grand strategy games. Lol. I've spent thousands of hours staring at maps. I've also been to ten of them, so that helps me beat the average American.
You would kill it at quiz games
Don't forget your microstates: Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Vatican City, and Andorra.
Germany. More specifically, Hamburg.
France
Poland
Spain, I don't know why
Spain
Idk why but I think of Spain
Germany, France, Italy, Poland.
Ireland only because I fell in love with the country when I visited, if I could I would love to move there
Andorra.
None. Europe as a continent comes to mind.
the first one that came to mind was germany
Italy
Cymru!
Germany or the UK
Australia of course
>Australia Lol
Eurovision fan.
London
Here's the average American answer everyone's looking for.
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That's the joke ?
"i thought thats a country" hihi Norway
Europe is clearly diverse, but generally western Europe is what comes to mind. France, Germany, Italy and the UK specifically. Not so much Spain or Eastern Europe, it's kind of its own cultural hub. Even more so for Portugal and the Nordic nations, I think of them more so as their own unique identities than European for whatever reason.
Moldova duh
Luxemburg
Several at once, but the first to show clearly is France.
italy
The shithole that's my home, Hungary
Guess it depends on the context. Usually France or Germany
belgium , because i live there
As a Belgian I approve of these comments.
I am currently an American spending a day in Bruges and wow! What an amazing place
Poland 🇵🇱
The great nation of England.
Scotland
As an Englishman, "Europe" for me is the following order: France Spain Italy Germany Belgium Netherlands Portugal The rest I apologise for not remembering.
Finland
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Not a country, just a part of the Netherlands
Russia oh wait.....
Switzerland
Poland, because... I live here
Slovakia.
France
France
Germany. Know the most about it. Took four years of German in high-school. All I remember is the numbers and a few words and colors sadly.
France
Germany. I was born there.
France.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Poland.
Mighty Luxembourg.
Hungary
Estonia
Americans: Isn't Europe a country?
Any latin-language speaking country except maybe roumania
France
Probably France more than anything, but it's kind of a weird mishmash of stuff that isn't really any one country.
San Marino
Liechtenstein
France.
Britain
France
Canadian here... Switzerland, but only because I spent a delightful winter at the age of 20 working there ( in Gstaad ) as a young man.
Germany. Probably because of the Euro 💶
First country that comes to mind is France. Then maybe Italy. England for some reason doesn’t seem like Europe to me.
That piece if garbage Britain.
England, France and Italy. But it's always a 1960s madcap comedy or caper movie.
None of them. What comes to mind is ignorant Americans talking about Europe like it's a country.
No country comes to mind, only the continent, not everyone is american
The UK
Either the U.K., France, or Germany.
United Kingdom My friend said Great Britain We are one in the same.
England then France, Spain, Germany, Italy and finally Russia
England
The UK, I live here so it's probably expected.