I have recently found out Czechia ranks as the third worst slavery haven in Europe. Kind of a shock, if you ask me. What about you?

Ignoring the terrible climate disaster that would follow, of course

It's required now. I'm British, and I want to see us align and unite with our European neighbours to make a stand now.

I want Germany to finally brush off it's past and join the rest of Europe in mobilising towards defending this continent. We need EVERYONE now. It's time to act, it's time to unite.

It's time to show some courage.

As a Scot, I'm low-key happy because he's universally reviled in Scotland, and he might be the final nail in the coffin that causes a second indy ref.

For Denmark, I’d say it was when Danish politicians and Norwegian politicians discussed the oil resources in the Nordic sea. Our foreign affair minister, Per Hækkerup, got drunk and then basically gave Norway all of it.

I can go with a bus, or with a plane in EINDHOVEN which do you think is a better choice(from Romania)?

I’m 36 years old. I can remember how the world felt about my country post 9/11 (sympathy) and post Iraq (anger) but I’m curious to know if this is new ground. I’m deeply upset about how our ties and bonds are being destroyed so I wish to know if this is truly unprecedented or has there been a time in your lifetime where we were viewed in such a way. If so what was happening during your time to cause fracturing?

Dear europeans, do you like your english accent? I know that in Poland people don’t like our accent and they feel ashamed by it, and I’m wondering if in your country you have the same thing going on?

Just curious - I'm Canadian and it's a huge topic for us at the moment.

Dear community of /r/AskEurope,

Over the last couple of months, we have—“we” being the modteam—talked about a negative development in the community: growing hostility towards non-European community members and particularly a growing prevalence of anti-Americanism.

We want to stress that we are not saying, that you shouldn’t criticize the US—or any other country or state of affairs for that matter—what we are saying is, some threads are derailed, or some comments go out of their way to, instead of answering the question asked, instead make a point about how it is different from the US in a way that only seeks to present the US as backwards, particularly racist, out of touch, and so on. Often, we also see comments like “but at least we have universal healthcare”, or similar, addressed to American community members completely out of context; these comments are removed.

We want to remind everybody that Americans or Australians or any other non-European community member is as equally wanted and welcome as an Austrian or Armenian, and we should aim to make our community as welcoming and open to non-Europeans as possible. The goal of the community is to create a space where we can discuss and learn about Europe with everybody, not just other Europeans. Where an American or Brazilian or South African member can participate, without feeling that their countries are singled out for criticism, that they are held accountable for the actions or state of affairs in their countries, or that they are not welcome.

Another concern we have in the moderator team is when our community discusses terminology, and users place great emphasis on how something is different than in the US — even if it is entirely irrelevant to the discussion. We have seen users outright claim that race isn’t a thing in Europe: something that is obviously false, as racialized structures and racism do exist in Europe, and has a real presence in our societies. Or to, whenever the term "soccer" is used, to immediately correct people, telling them to call it "football", and making "handegg" comments. Or the unnecessary aversion towards usage of imperial units, derailing threads into circlejerks about the metric system.

Please understand that this isn’t a political post from the side of the modteam; we span the whole political spectrum; we are only asking you to play nice, and to allow all community members to participate, without them having to defend themselves on the basis of their nationality, or without having them see their countries being ridiculed in entirely unrelated threads.

Thank you.

On behalf of the modteam,

- J.

Back when I was in high school, basically everyone had iphones. It was really only the techky kids who were more interested in specs that had androids. The exception was the international kids (mostly from Germany, Italy and Spain). A good chunk of them had android phones (maybe like 50%). And I don't think that it was really because of price because most of these kids came from pretty well off families as it costs like 30k to do an exchange.

But digging into the numbers (source), it seems like it seems to be the case that android is more popular in Europe than NA. NA is about 55% to 45%, whereas Europe is about 70 to 30. Sure there are some countries that aren't doing too well in Europe but even in the rich European countries like Germany and France, there are a lot more androids than iphones. The only countries I saw with more iphones than androids were the UK and Norway (though there could be others though as I didn't check every country).

So is there any particular reason for these differences?

Well, not necessarily a genuine sense of shame because of that city, but the black sheep city, so to speak. All in good fun.

I went to the US in 2014. We landed in San Francisco and had to rent a car. We thought: "we're in america, let's rent a big car" So we rented a "big" car. Then we joined the I101 and we were the smallest car on the road... So with our redefined car we went to the Golden Gate Bridge but we were hungry. So we stopped at a diner. My brother ordered a burger and a small 7up. He got a liter of 7up. He wasn't even halfway and the waitress came to ask if he'd like a free refill (!). To quantify the bigness would be an insult of the bigly bigness that is american lifestyle. Certainly a shock for me.

Edit: Estonia would be the IT girl who has had many violent relationships with Germany and Russia. Still obeys to all the rules set by Germany. And is obsessed with her brother Finland, with whom they go to sauna with every week. She also is a part time singer at a bar.

Not sure how to feel about this.

In Romania they are massively illegally cutting forests with even our government lying to our faces about it.

I'd go with "Kunibert" for males and "Brunhilde" for females.

Bonus question: what do people in countries that still rely on coal and gas (Poland, Germany for example) think about it?

This question is inspired by a video on YouTube (in English) that I am watching rn and a commercial ad has rolled in Polish and I had no idea what was being said for a second. I literally thought “what is this language?” Then a second later it turned to be Polish and I was taken aback how is this even possible not to understand your own language.

This was a game we used to play on one of my Erasmus exchanges. It is really quick and easy and you can get a quick idea of other countries if you had none before, so that you feel closer to them.

So, I will start with Bulgaria:

1. Bulgaria is the oldest country in Europe, which has never changed its name since its foundation in 681.

2. Bulgarians invented the Cyrillic alphabet in 893 during the 1st Bulgarian Empire.

3. Bulgaria was the home of the Thracians, the Thracian hero Spartacus was born in present-day Bulgaria. Thus we consider ourselves a mixture of Bulgars, Thracians (they are the indigenous ones) and Slavic => Bulgarians.

4. In Varna it was discovered the oldest golden treasure in the world, the Varna Necropolis, dating more than 6000 years back and we are 3rd in Europe with the most archaeological monuments/sites after Italy and Greece.

5. We shake our heads for 'yes' and nod for 'no'.

Bonus: 'Tsar'/'Czar' is a Bulgarian title from the 10th century, derived from Caesar - Цезар (Tsezar) in Bulgarian.

What are 5 interesting things about your countries?