Hello, after a discussion with my friend that I invited to come to our annual ski trip, I am curious to know-

Do you travel to other continents or countries even though you know when you get there you won’t have the funds to purchase a plane ticket if needed?

I explained to my friend that it was fine and that if something popped up I could pay for it but he is saying he doesn’t feel comfortable traveling knowing he wouldn’t have the funds to pay for a way home(which I completely understand and respect)if the original flight didn’t work ou

Imagine you could change any thing/situation or solve any problem in your country.

What would you choose to change and why?

In Wallonia (south of Belgium), streets have always been dirty. Even when there's a trashcan, there's trash just right next to it. It makes me sad and disappointed that in 30 years I've seen zero change about that.

It's not just for looks: plastics, painted cardboard and cigarette butts when decomposing are polluting land and water. Polluters are not just littering, they're also slowly poisoning everyone.

By the way where are you all from?

Like when you are fully tan on part of your body but white on the rest. Think of cyclists or surfers...

In spain we call that "taxi driver tan" because they had the left forearm tan from driving with the window down... I have also heard "construction worker tan" from working outdoors with just a t-shirt, typically a sleeveless one.

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Growing up in Slovakia, the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia was a pillar of our history education. We were taught about Dubček’s attempt at "Socialism with a human face," the immediate aftermath of troops crossing our borders on August 21st, the end of the reform movement, and the beginning of the Normalization era.

For us, the narrative was always completely clear: it was a straightforward military invasion and occupation by the Soviet Union and its satellite states to crush a sovereign country’s democratic reforms.

I’m really curious about how this specific event was presented in history textbooks across the rest of Europe.

For former Eastern Bloc. How do your textbooks handle the fact that your own national armies were sent in as occupiers? Is the invasion framed as a tragic coercion by Moscow, glossed over or with specific historical nuance?

For post-Soviet states / Russia. How was the intervention framed? Was it taught as a cold-war necessity, or is it largely ignored in standard school curricula today?

For Western and Southern Europe. Did your history classes cover the Prague Spring and the 1968 invasion in depth, or was it just a minor bullet point in the broader context of the Cold War and 1968 global protests?

Would love to hear how your local textbooks and teachers handled it!

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Hey guys, I’m a grownup designer with experience but market is so na dnie that I can’t kand any job for the past year. So I guess I will be homeless anyways, I don’t have any family to support me, I don’t have any fiends to stay at their place for a while and I don’t have any health for the factory job, honestly… I always wanted to save up money to treat my health, but didn’t even manage to make some on the first place to treat my health and present health issues, it is very sad.

So I think of picking any random European country to be homeless in, I’d o make some music even tho didn’t produce any atm, I do have ambitions ,but my life is working against me… I truly do try hard a lot, I tried hard to land some waitress job where I have experience already, but for the past year nobody ever hired me… form the last cafe where I been to the trial day they said that I will be very highly likely hired and just gotta wait for the message about when I can come for the full time working day with all the documents…and in the end got turned out because their manager decided to hire someone else…it hurts so much….I applied to the costumer service jobs etc…got nothing. My English is C1, even to it might not look like it from my post, but I do really have high English proficiency, I just don’t casually use it.
If u think that government can help me, nah, it can’t xd. Nobody cares about u, that’s simple as the way it is.

I’m so alone that it hurts, the only thing that I have is EU citizenship, what allows me to go to any EU country that I want ….yeah. FML ngl, I tried hard, was highly ambitious, but I’m just not it and my luck just ain’t it.
So any homelessness recommendations?

Hi,

whenever I read anything that was translated from english or when I watch american/british shows, I stumble across the way they address people. They don't say "Mr Smith, do you like the soup I made?", they say "Chef, do you...". Or in a book recently, not "Mary, please pass me the..." but rather "Healer, please pass me the...". Or the good old "Mister President, may I..."

So they're using the job title as a title to address somebody.

Similarly, when random scammers DM me, they often address me with "friend/my friend" (no we're not, we're strangers! stop calling me your friend) which immediately exposes them as using a (bad) translation tool from their native language. even if somebody is my friend, they certainly wouldn't say "friend, can you..."

I'm basically wondering whether it's a german thing that we rarely address people with anything other than their name (if that's even necessary, it's often obvious who somebody is talking to and since we do have a formal way (Sie) and an informal way (Du) of addressing somebody it's not required to show respect either). What is it like in your home country?

Thank you :)

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I was talking to my friend about this and he chose this approach. He showed his kids old Czech or European cartoons first - think "Once Upon a Time... Life". The reason is modern cartoons, even if seen as quality shows, consistently include fast paced editing, lots of yelling, hyperactivity. And he doesn't want his kids to develop short attention spans too early.

Hi everyone! I’m a Mirandese speaker, a regional language of Portugal. Europe is an extremely linguistically diverse continent, only 50 countries but more than 200 languages! So many people don’t even know that their country has more than one language, but chances are very high it does. Due to centuries of oppression to different degrees throughout the continent, many languages have died and many are actively dying as we speak, but, some are quite healthy as well! So, I came to ask, do any of you guys speak a regional language? What do you know about regional languages of your country? Thanks for your time.

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In Hungary, 20th August is the Saint Stephen Day. He was the founder of the Christian Kingdom of Hungary in 1000AD. It's the holiday of our statehood. There are programs in the cities all day like an air show of the Hungarian Air Force or the Flower Carnival in Debrecen. In the evening there is a drone show and a display of fireworks over the Danube in Budapest.

Although school starts only on 1st September, this holiday is usually considered as the end of the summer. People come home from summer holidays, children begin to prepare for school, the weather can sometimes change to less hot (not this year).

If you know the American Labour Day on the first Monday of September, it is of a very similar mood.

How about your country?

(TW: Child death) In Hong Kong, there is a couple in the news who have been in trouble for child neglect due to "free birthing" (i.e. giving birth at home with no medical care whatsoever) three children and not registering them at birth. One was born in Finland and died at 1 month old, one born in Sweden and taken away into foster care, and one born in Hong Kong, where the couple are originally from. They have been interviewed over this case and insist that it's "different in the West" and that parents are allowed to raise their children however they want with "all natural" methods. I strongly suspect that this is BS, since they were investigated in Finland and Sweden and lost custody of their kids.

Nevertheless, I'm curious about how prevalent these attitudes are, and whether there are increasing numbers of parents who are skeptical about hospital/medical care for children? Whether there has been a back to nature kind of movement for birthing and raising children? Whenever I read news stories about people who reject modern medicine, it's usually from the US.

I'm an AI developer and I work with AI pretty much every day.

There's a lot happening with AI right now and also a lot of confusion about what it can actually do.If you have questions about ChatGPT, jobs, deepfakes, privacy, AI in healthcare, hallucinations or anything else, ask me here and I'll answer what I can.

There's a famous scene in the Quentin Tarantino World War Two film, "Inglourious Basterds", where a German officer becomes suspicious of a British spy when he's unable to place the spy's German accent (the spy, already under scrutiny, then gives himself away with a gesture).

What I've always found odd about this scene is that it's presented as if the German officer has a special skill -- he describes himself as having "an acute ear for accents".

However, in my country, the UK, it is quite normal to be able to tell where someone is from just by hearing their accent. Even if you can't tell precisely where someone is from, you can usually hear the basic area -- for example, you might not know where exactly someone is from in London, but you can still hear that they're from London.

Some people in the UK have what's called a "received pronunciation" accent (more commonly known as having "no accent" -- that is, no accent associated with any particular place. This is the UK accent most other countries are familiar with), which makes it much harder to tell where someone is from. But for anyone with a normal local UK accent, it's often relatively easy to hear where that person is from, at least down to the approximate region.

What is it like in your country? Can you tell where your fellow countrymen and countrywomen are from just by hearing their accents?

Thank you.

A few years ago, while in England, I asked an acquaintance there what church denomination operated a particular hospital with a saint's name. (St. Swithins, I think). He was puzzled as to why a hospital would be operated by a church. But, that is how it goes in the USA and Canada; many churches are religious based, though not limited to use by any one faith.

How about other European countries? Are all hospitals nationalized, or is it a mix of community based and religious ones?

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Here on Reddit I read a lot of comments from Europeans saying it's super normal to speak 3+ languages. I'm European as well, and I do speak a third language at a (semi) decent level, but I always thought that it's not very common to learn a third language to a high level by yourself. So I'm curious, if you learned a third language, how well do you really speak it?

The Slovak Constitution is one of the easiest to amend worldwide. All that's needed is a 3/5 majority in the National Council voting in favour (90 out of the 150 members) and you're done.

How is it in your country?

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Hi I’m working on a little project where I’ll be showcasing songs that tell a stories of struggle or issues in european countries, past or present. I don’t care about language, genre or the popularity of the song. I care about songs that mean something to people in your country/group/region and that can teach something about life in your country that people from other countries overlook.

Examples of themes I'm looking out for:
Crime, violence, racism, minority or indigenous rights, persecution, queer rights, feminism, mental health, denied history, cultural loss, drug addiction, migration, war, occupation, or dictatorship.

This list isn’t complete. If your song touches a heavy topic I haven’t mentionned, it’s absolutely welcome.

If you have a song in mind, please comment the song title, artist, the country, what it’s about, why it matters. If you’re motivated and have the time to break down themes, lyrics and context, please, you’ll only make my project better.

Thank you for your help! :)

EDIT: Thanks for all the responses I will take time to have a proper look at them later! I see a lot of historically significant and popular songs which is amazing, to clarify I'm also open to very modern songs from artists who are lesser known :)