What It's Like Dating in These European Countries?
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
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I felt it was time to share what I've learned about dating in Europe since starting the channel. What countries would you like to see featured next?
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0:00 Intro
2:17 France
5:26 Belgium
6:51 Germany
8:27 Austria
9:52 Spain
11:48 Portugal
14:32 Netherlands
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8 years, time has flown.. Always worth a watch.. A lot of hard work by you 😍
It never stops 😂
@@DatingBeyondBorders
I used to watch your older videos and found them entertaining, but your newer stuff is so more rich and interesting! Congrats!!!
You have such a wealth of knowledge on these topics...thanks for sharing and teaching!
Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Croatia. Thx for all the great video's over the years!
Thank you!
Would like to see one about Balkan, Slavic, and Baltic countries 😊 Croatia, Lithuania, etc.
Marina, please can you shoot the second part of this video? İt is very interesting❤ You are a gem on UA-cam
I absolutely Love love love this video. It's a beautiful summary of observations. Thank you.
Thank you Julia ☺️
On Italy, Switzerland, and Eastern Europe, please 😊
Interesting how the guys from The Netherlands , Germany and Nordic countries don't make the first move , but when they are around each other they seem extremely comfortable and extroverted 😂 , i mean , they get along really quickly , especially when the beer shows up
True. That is why is more and more common for women to be the one who approach the man.
They were castrated
@@Juniperus_GodegaraI agree. And I am German. Many of my fellows are castrated
@@Juniperus_Godegaraby who tho
@@marvin2678the government
I really enjoy watching your videos because you give great content and advice about dating people from different backgrounds.
Thanks!
@@DatingBeyondBordersKindly share with us your quiz once you finalize it, and I wish if you could establish a marriage website to increase the number of stable relationships. I regret to say that loneliness is the stigma that we have in this decade, although availing all the internet and outsourcing ways of communication, which have never been found in the mankind history.
Your channel is very insightful.
Thank you for all the videos over the years :) and I would love to hear about Poland, which would be great recap about dating culture of my country to my Belgian boyfriend :)
Howdy! Thanks for all the vids, always liked them. In French there's the word "rencard" that can be used for a "date", it's a bit old-old-fashioned but still pretty much in use.
I love how you guys make a very complex topic into something simple and straightforward. I personally don't know if I'll ever get married, but now, thanks to your channel, I have a much better idea of how to approach these certain groups of people without coming across as creepy. Thanks so much 🙏 😊 ☺️ 😀 😄
Thanks! Happy to hear!
People?
The idea of quiz is marvelous! Please do it and include every country you have information about it
I agree ☝️ I can’t wait to see this quiz!
Thanks Marina!!! This really highlights the differences between the dating scene in North America and Europe. Being a Portuguese/Canadian citizen this kinda hits home in why it feels odd to me how things in North America work.
You are welcome 😁 Wish I had made more videos about Portugal when living there actually
Thanks for the video! I'd love to hear your perspective on dating in Ireland ☘️
Very useful video actually ❤
Love your videos about European dating! I watch every single one of them. Would love to also hear your observations about dating in the UK especially British men, Italian men, and Eastern European men!
We Englishmen are reserved, patriarchal, masculine, traditional.. not as fashionable and fancy as Italian men. Men don't dress to impress in UK
Very interesting stuff. So many nuances! Please cover Scandinavia, Italy, Poland/Eastern Europe and don't forget the UK & Ireland. We're still European (just about)!
I'm from Spain and you nailed it 🤗. Especially the screaming at 3 in the morning 💀
I have personally been a victim.. (Still recovering)
Hahahahaha...... Marina you my crush, i fkn love you.
Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Albania and Greece are some European countries I'd love to learn more about!!
Don't you learn enough by living there?
Great video. I would like to hear more about Switzerland perhaps or Poland or the Czech Republic, since there weren't any eastern european countries in this one.
Poland and Czech rather like to be considered as part of Central Europe (which they are, together with Germany etc.). The 'East' is more due to the cold war political sorting but neither historically correct before and after that - and it was never geographically ...
Cant wait to see your new quiz,.
Yeah for the quiz!!! Very cool!!!
The info is awesome. Too bad I lost so many opportunities for lack of understanding the local dating culture.
In Slovenian we have a word for a date. 'Zmenek', it comes from 'zmeniti se' (=to arrange). However it has been used forever just for a date. It really surprided me that they actually have no word for that.
Hi Sara how are you. Greetings from Ireland. It’s a good video. Best wishes for a lovely day 👍🙏 Michael
Great video loved it! I’d like to know more about dating in Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey, Sweden Denmark Norway Finland - thanks 😊
I’d love to see 🇨🇭 included, and I’ll keep my eyes open for the quiz!
German Swiss is like Austria.
French Swiss is like France
Italian Swiss is like northern italy.
@@TheThingIs415I'd say they're even more conservative and close-minded than Austrians.
Happy Friday, Marina ❤! You rock and your videos are great to watch. Sending my love from Miami, Florida, USA 🇺🇲
Thanks John!
Thank you for your take, Marina. Life is like a video game where you try to fix the problem, but the difference is, in reality, the problem is still around the corner. Your knowledge, experience, and perspective, this gives me a glimmer of hope. Originally, I was just going to be introverted for the rest of my life, but your channel switched my perspective and the world is not full of gray after all. I do know this, I had to make a first move because I am a man, I know my identity, and I know my purpose. I have my passport, I gotta start learning new languages and new cultures.
It seemed to me that in Austria there are soo many unwritten rules to follow while socialising to not be rude, while Germany seemed a lot more to the point. Things like when are you allowed to open your presents and stuff like that. It might also have to do with the specific people I stayed with in the two countries.
please summarize Italy. I've been married to a Sicilian man for almost 40 years, and I'd be interested in your observations.
North Europe = cold. Introverted . Hard to make friends. Requires a lot of alcohol
South Europe = social. Loud . Easy to make friends . Food required
no real friends tho, and in northern europe they are liflong if you win them
It's equally difficult to make friends all over Europe and I'd say the closer the family ties, the more difficult to make friends, because people aren't as interested in having friends. I found it far more difficult in Greece than in Germany to make friends.
When it comes to finding company, that's more easy in southern Europe, because it's more common to hang out in big groups and to spend much time outside and because hospitality is seen as extremely important.
But then you also have places like Scotland that are quite up north, but people are very much into hospitality and company.
South europe: more superficial friends but only if u are a national of that country. Try to mingle into circle of italian or spanish friends when u are the only american - wont be possible. They stay closed among themselves. Also of course they dont know english
@@marvin2678bullshit, you have to win lifelong frendship everywhere, but Southerners are easier to approach
Because Greeks, Italians, Spanish and Portuguese normally we get along with each other more than German and English speaking country. In the south of Europe we don’t really trust the northern. The abuse of alcohol here is a thing. Generally speaking in our colture a person who is over drinking is not trustworthy. So the people from US usually we don’t trust them in the long run because we see that they don’t have self discipline with alcohol or other stuff, everything must be done to an extreme level. We don’t like that and is funny to hang around for some time but not to be life long friend because: “how I am supposed to trust you if you behave like that?”.
This is for sure a generalisation but is deep rooted.
I would love to learn more about Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Norway, Estonia, and Sweden
I think you should remade the "Dating with Dutch girl" video as the original was recorded outside Netherlands
In French for the word date we have the word “rencard” but if you are dating someone since a while you can say you have an “affaire” but both are not really used anymore, they considered a bit old fashioned.
PS : We also had the word “courtiser” which means “to court”
In southern Europe people live more on the streets than in northern Europe, for one simple reason: the climate. However, in the United Kingdom something very similar happens to what happens in Spain, we spend a lot of time in bars or pubs and it is easy to make friends there, but of course you have to speak the language of the locals. In any case, people from outside Europe must understand that except in large cities where there is a large internal immigration, it is normal for groups of friends to be made at school or in the park where we play when we are small children and We usually maintain that group throughout our lives, although new additions are added, the partners of the original members and their new friends. In an average Spanish city, coming not only from another country, but from another place in Spain, it is difficult to join a group of friends, except as a couple or as a work friend.
It's the same in Greece.
@carlos: there is also another difference. the Southern are more on the street yet doing less, while for instance if a German or Central European is there then they are more active doing and organizing different stuff. Most Southers are more 'hanging around within their rituals' (in tourist regions often also depending on the season) ...
Eight years is a long time!! Have you finally met someone?
"Europe is a continent" oh man , what kind of people think that each part of Europe is the same thing , i'm not even from there and yet i know basic differences among the countries and the people 😂
You'd be surprised with the stuff people are putting up on TikTok 😂
Just like people think Africa is a country, not a continent. Or think that Latinos are not Americans
@@priscillad8or people who think that all the Asian people look the same 😂
@@Noah_ol11 this too!!!!
Type 'Americans geography questions' in youtube and u will see
When you’re coming in Luxembourg? There are a lot of foringers living here and is a mix of every culture.
best vid ever as usual XOXO
Interesting video
Wow!!! I like all your video have followed you for a long time but this is a really bang on video …I like it and I like always love your frankness …I would value your opinion on Greece 🇬🇷 and the UK 🇬🇧…..until next time ….and I love your videos ….xx Alex🇬🇷
Thanks!
7:36 that's probably mostly Germans who have lived abroad or from really small towns. Pretty much all of the Germans I've talked to who lived in the US for some time said that one of their biggest culture shocks was having the exclusivity talk since most Germans automatically assume you are exclusive after some dates or hookups. It is one of the few times that Germans are not direct. The Americans I know living in Germany (including myself) have been thrown off by this whenever we've dated Germans.
I live in Spain and much of what you said is really true, I would like to know more about Danish men.
Will add Denmark to next video - there is a lot of info that is interesting
Danish men require lots of alcohol thats all you need to know 😉
@@unknownmovement from reserved and civilized changed to barbarian viking
Would be great if you included Greece, it's really not well-known when it comes to the dating scene.
I think your doing a good job. Watched many of your vids. True the relationship market has changed dramatically.
I'm a French living in the UK and this is so spot on about France. Bravo ! ;)
I finally subscribed
Italy, Greece, Romania, Croatia, and Serbia
The dating scene in Portugal as portraid in the video is a bit off. Portuguese women can be every bit as progressive, if not more, than the ones from the countries that have that label attached to 'em. They just know how to do it on the downlow 😜😉. But its true that there's a "roughness" or "bluntness" with Portuguese women, you just have to act accordingly hehe.
For 8 years now - chapeau!
Czech Republic and anything about Russia if u have such experience
Looking forward to the quiz! I think I'd be happiest with a Slavic man, or possibly Georgian 🤔 I appreciate men who are caring and affectionate but also protective and masculine.
When drunk and the food is coold they beat ya a$$ up
@@Diego-ozz How disappointing !!
@@amiquigonzales7917 I'm sooo sorry for disappointing you ☹️ still friends aight? 🤡
Great content ❤ interested in Russia and Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Please do one on Malta 🇲🇹
To be honnest i am french in the modern days we used to say "date" but we have also the old expression "un rencard" we can say "i have a date" in french "j'ai un rencard" but for all the rest i am so agree with you ;)
Yes I heard this is the closest to "date" but also not the best translation
I have met a german girl, who approached me and it was ment to be a fantastic relationship (if her German colleagues didn't fight her not to mingle with anyone outside of their nationality or the Japanese who were also in the same hotel). Unfortunately, I felt myself living in the WW2, and I wish if I could meet that girl again!
Wow, so sad you never saw her again ....... My parents, both deceased told me how it was to live in the '40s.... you certainly know that 😪
Just for the record, as a 66-year old American guy, who's been an expat in Europe for many years, it's important to point out that the current American trend of potentially dating multiple people early in relationships before going exclusive didn't exist when I was first dating my now ex-wife. At that point in the 1970s, we only went out with one person. So, it was relatively similar to France nowadays in that regard. After got divorced some 30 years ago, I was quite amazed that people did, in fact, date multiple people. So, the same culture can change.
The US is known for its hook-up culture. I think it's not new in the big cities at all.
Loved your work❤❤❤❤💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
England, Ireland, Iceland, Finland, Poland.
Eastern Europe and Balkan countries please
Eastern Europe and Northern Europe
UK, Finland, Poland, Greece, Italy
date is slang for scheduled appointment " what is your appointment date" you are scheduled for your court date blah blah blah..." context became a 3rd meaning when you say " i have a date " with what? court, the dentist, your secretary, your priest, wedding, and lazy teenagers would just respond " a date. you know " my german great grands and grands told me some about this when they were growing up..also how we got roads from deer paths and how those progressed from the wild west to todays civilization as i was watching all the local farms being turned into commercial and residential urban places. where i grew up is now corporate HQ for polaris industries. my great grandparents farms are now an interstate and state highway.
Netherlands, please🤩
I’m 65 living in Colorado (USA) and have been using online dating for quite some time. The one thing I find glaringly obvious on a first meet is that women prefer an evening date as opposed to a coffee date. They’re fishing for a free meal regardless if there’s a follow up date or not. I can’t tell you how many $100 dinner dates I’ve been on. Maybe I should find a Dutch girl 😮
I cant believe in this day and age any woman needs a free meal. If she does then she is not a candidate. I have never been interested in a meal at all as a matter of fact.
@@UrsaBella Trust me, they’re out there unfortunately
Finland and Czechia!
My personality is that I don't vocalize my opinion but I also am not nodding along. I just say 'cool that's your opinion'
Where is the link to the quizz?
The spanish in spain yellling out your window at 3am?.....yeah that sounds pretty latin america too. Coincidence?
I'm portuguese and all my romantic involvements have been with foreigners. Remember being in the US for instance and dating felt like fishing with dynamite by comparison. On average every other european country just talking with a chick is easier too. Very surprised with the divorce rate statistic though. I wonder what that is all about.
My take on what she said about Portugal is that the men are not allowed to be men. Women are taking over even the science jobs so the men are seen as not as important and to be respected. Women won't follow a man they don't respect. Sorry that happened to you. I'm from the USA and had the same experience moving to South America. Finally got respect and dates.
@@lawdog369 exactly the case.
Ireland,
I hope some day you can do a video on dating culture in Latin America which undoubtedly has changed much since I lived there many years ago.
I am going to Mexico in a few weeks so stay tuned for Mexican content 🙂
🇺🇸🇦🇷🇺🇾🇨🇱🇲🇽 latin brothers! Viva latina❤
There' s a " latin/ euro aouth América, Brasil, Quebec, Argentina & Uruguay! From México to Chile, is Ameríndia! Or Mexichile!
I'm up for some content regarding the Finnish or Nordic dating culture.
I made soo many videos about the Nordics! Check out the Single's Guide to Finland, I have 3 videos about dating in Sweden and 1 about Norway. Also Single's Guide to Iceland 😁
and baltics and Balkans and Caucasus region.
@@DatingBeyondBorders thanks a lot! Rgds from 🇧🇷
@@grazielalelisdiasHi Graziela how are you. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 to Brazil 🇧🇷. It’s a good video. Best wishes for a lovely day 👍🙏😊🇧🇷 Michael
would like to know more about the Middle East region and central Asia wasn't really covered up here as well.I think people have so many misconceptions about the region and dating culture
All I know about Central Asia is that Kyrgyzstan has bride kidnapping, and the groom's mother lies across the threshold of the bride's room to prevent her leaving (stepping across one's body is considered very, very, very rude there) until she gives in.
UK in part 2
Nothing compares to Greek kamaki !
Portuguese woman here :) Of course we are amazing, independent, non-submiss and all. But, we would love that our men would be less passive! 😂 Guys, have some initiative! 😂 Do a video on more babies being born out of wedlock than in wedlock. So you get a better approach to our "traditionality". 😉
Interesting... Will look into it!
94% divorce rate.. Yikes.
@@Ed-xv4syThe rate is very high, yes. But I think the 94% is from pandemic times since people didn't get married beacuse they want to have a party. At the same time people kept on getting divorced since it is bureaucracy that you could do online even during a pandemic.
@@DatingBeyondBordersDon't take me wrong, I like your videos. But you keep hitting the key that Portugal is traditional. If you check the numbers you'll think twice before saying Portugal is traditional. Divorce rates, number of weddings and as I said babies being born out or in wedlock. You'll be surprised! 🙂
Eh, I wouldn't be so proud of being so independent and "non-submissive" when the marriage stats in the country are so bad. It's indicative of a fundamental incompatibility between how men and women are living their lives, and the fact that Portugese men were preferring to go with Expat women is another eyebrow raising observation.
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Enrique Iglesias is from Spain.
Interesting topic and video :) But I no understand why are you spending sooo long time to talk about France and about Germany minimum ?
Hey Marina!! We love your videos! I was in Frankfurt for a surgeon’s conference and I met my husband there. When we started dating,my German watched the videos about Brazil and I watched all the Germany ones.We embraced each other’s cultures ,we had a lot of fun watching ! It’s strange because I am now more German than he is and he’s completely relaxed being a Brazilian.We are married now (nooo living together…haha) , extremely happy living in Brazil and Frankfurt! Thanks Marina! You are awesome!!🇧🇷❤️🇩🇪
What a great story! Good luck to both of you and happy I took part in your relationship 😂 Many hugs ♥️
What about poland
What about the typical player from paris? Lol
As a Gen X American originally from New York, I do not believe it is common to date many people at the same time. It was frowned upon to date many people at the same time. People could only date someone else after the previous relationship was over. Of course, the rules would be different if the couple agreed to see more than one person. Overall though, I still think dating several people isn't popular. I do not know how younger generations date. And to be honest, I see Gen Z as a lost generation due to the fact they do not seem capable of getting off their phones longer enough to find a partner, kiss, have sex and a family. Dating apps are destroying dating. Sure it is easier to have a sexual fling, but a fling is not a long term, loving relationship.
I remember a few months ago I saw a young 20-somethings having a dinner date in a good restaurant. They were both glued to their phones and never looked at each other. I was thinking it would have better if both of them stayed home in their own homes. It was quite sad.
I will check out the other future videos about the nations of Europe
In the age of dating apps where you pick your date akin to some product in a catalogue, it is.
Gen Z roster dates because of ghosting. You meet let’s say 30 people on a dating app. You Snapchat them until it’s down to 10ish. You go out with 10ish, you date 4-6 seriously long term then you enter a monogamous situationship, then you become official. That’s dating now. Gen x dated back in the 1900s. Things are way more different now than even in the mid 2000s
Norway Finnland and Dänemark
Do africa
In France the 1-to-1 date is more common than meeting in a group for my generation (GenY). Yes you can meet each other in a party, but then you exchange numbers and go 1-to-1 only. It is also possible to approach a girl in the street and try to get her number. The typical date (ou rendez vous) is to go to a café (boire un verre), where debates are welcomed, and have a little romantic walk. It is true that when you go for the kiss, it becomes an exclusive relationship. Rendez-vous is used for romantic dates as well as appointements depending of the context. "S*x" is a forbidden word and a turn off, we commonly use metaphors and little games. Your french videos are pretty accurate Marina, and I used them as a tutorial with foreign women :D. Thank you for all your videos!!
Interesting! And thank you ☺️
Agree 100%
In North America there is much less tolerance towards disagreement. Its infantile.
That emerged after 2014 when the “never hurt anyone’s feelings since its violence” movement emerged
Portugal! ❤🇵🇹
it's so funny that you included that infamous clip of Enrique Iglesias
I am a bit addicted to watching him mess up all those concerts 😂
In my experience i've learned that Europeans are a tad more open to dating other ethnic groups than the US.
Just an observation.
Oh really? I think the Balkans heavily disagree
In my experience..@@jamesedwards1284
USA is extremely diverse, so I don’t know what you’re talking about.
if they are western europeans they have too much feminism so men prefer dating women from more traditional cultures.
Ok if you say so.@@capeverdeanprincess4444
I personally want to date a Irish women. I will be moving to Ireland 2025 so how should I approach women in Ireland, how to know if they like you etc.
Do not approach women, they're grown and doing well for themselves. If they like you, they'll approach you.
@@Ed-xv4sydelulu
It seems like Irish women are alcoholics like Irish men and they like good banter. At least from the Irish UA-camrs I watch. Basically be funny and get sh!tfaced 🤷♂️
Could you advise me how to make friends in Netherlands . It is very tough
Learn the language and drink a lot - mind regards from a dutch guy
@@jamesedwards1284 Bro but I don't drink it is against my religion??
@@pramit5000 damn u chose the wrong country to move to man
@@jamesedwards1284 But I can try to learn Dutch Language
@@pramit5000 i’d recommend it, it’s very hard to immerse yourself into existing friendships groups if everyone else has to switch to a different language. Besides, Dutch is a very easy language to learn. Side note, those dutch classes are a great place to meet new people.
Can you please include the United Kingdom in your next video?
Will do ☺️
ireland pleez
What about Sweden?
I have just made 4 videos about Sweden. Please check 🙏
I think it would be interesting if she went to Africa, Asia, Latin America etc
Says Spain is not like Latin America.
Proceeds describing Spain’s dating scene as just as in Latin America.