ASMR Differences Between Eastern and Western Europe 🇪🇺 (cultural differences)

追加: 2026-05-26

[00:00:02]Hi guys. Hi guys. And welcome back to my channel or welcome to my channel. As you might be able to tell by the title, today we are doing a fun video that I saw other creators do. So big shout out to ASMR Melts and ASMR like B ASMR. I saw them do that. You can let me know if there's other creators that do that did this type of video, but I saw it at their channel and I really liked it and I found it really very interesting. So today we're going to do our version of that with the differences between uh central and like western Europe between Eastern Europe bit of info. I was born in Eastern Europe and now I'm living in central Europe in Western Europe and there's actually a lot of differences that I saw considering it's the same continent but regardless there's a lot of differences and today I have some categories that we're going to talk about and I was share my personal opinion and differences that I realized beginning with communication.

[00:01:07]So there's my iPad with the info. But guys, I want to mention I perceive this completely natural. I love both cultures. This is not a job on any of those cultures. As I said, I enjoy both of them. I live here.

[00:01:20]Uh and I don't mean to talk in the favor of any of them. Just, you know, something I perceived. So first one is communication. So I also see this in my own family. Like I have people that are not from Moldova in my family that are from here. And I generally saw that people that were born in Eastern Europe that have experienced the Eastern European culture of obviously guys generally speaking are more direct like people in Western Europe they're talk about they try to give you the truth in a nice way like go around be very polite overly polite but in Maldova at least it's not like that like people are very direct I rarely experience sugar coating with people from there.

[00:02:09]Like people sometimes even come off as rude because of that for the fact that they're very direct. They're emotionally very reserved. Like they don't talk a lot about the emotional aspect, but everything else is like really in your face in terms of being direct. So that's sometimes very interesting to see. Um yeah, they can be very hostile, very umospitable.

[00:02:32]But if it comes to being like communication, they're extremely direct.

[00:02:38]Like in Western Europe, you have more of like a socially polished version of being direct. Like they they they want to tell you unless you're German. But uh like people here talk more around the bush to make it politely instead of just saying as it is. like they will they will tell you bad news in a more bearable hey whereas in Eastern Europe they just just straight out tell you and you deal with it once they tell you not their problem but yeah the next category is uh social structure and yes guys so the next category is the social structure and with that is being me and I mean with that the versions that we have of family friends and all that in our heads So in Eastern Europe, I would say the tradition or like the society there is still a bit more traditional oldfashioned. I went to Serbia a few months ago and I realized while I was there there's a lot of young families like young parents and it was all planned like it was not some sort of incident or anything. They just married and wanted kids right away. And um I found that to be much rarer here. Um, usually when I talk to people here, they're like, "Yeah, I want to experience this. I want to experience that." And there's nothing wrong with that, but just the general perspective that they're having of, "Oh, I want to travel before I have kids. I want to I want to experience I want to have my fun before I settle down." Whereas in Eastern Europe, obviously, that's also present. I'm not denying that. But I I found it to be more present, that wish for a young family, than it is in Western Europe. here. It's more of a like, oh, you're wasting your life away or you should not have kids that young.

[00:04:32]Uh something along those lines. On top of that, uh another difference that I realized, for example, here in Western Europe, if you're a woman on the street with like a lot of kids, people will look weirdly at you. I don't know why that is. People here usually have less kids, like around two kids, sometimes even less children than that. But in Serbia for example, you had like big families and nobody was betting and I like it was totally normal which it is.

[00:05:03]Also in Moldova if you have many kids, you're very praised for that. But here it's more looked down upon because people then um kind of question like how are you feeding your kids? How are you providing for your kids? Which is very valid in my opinion. It's a very valid question but um people put the quantity of the family more above in western in Eastern Europe people put the quantity of their family more above like I want to have a socially high status or like people will sacrifice a lot of their luxuries in that sense to have a bigger family.

[00:05:46]Um, it's not always like that as I said, but I found that to be very present.

[00:05:51]When I asked young like couples like why did you choose to have kids that young?

[00:05:55]They were like, I don't care to have like this back or that back. I would much rather have a family. So, as I said, there's no better or worse, but that's just kind of the there's no better or worse rumor of balls. Just kind of what I saw. Uh, and I I think both are valid. The lifestyle in Eastern Europe is a bit more cheaper than it is here, for example. So, I I can imagine why it's easier for them to have a big family there than it is here.

[00:06:27]That families live very in close proximity. Like I remember in Moldova, my entire family was on the same street, not in the same house, but on the same street.

[00:06:38]Um, whereas here it's like, oh, I move where it's just cheaper. So, I understand that because the prices of living here are completely different than they are back there. But it's it's interesting to see people here want to move out right after they turn 18, which I was like that too, but um the living costs are high.

[00:07:01]Um yeah, on top of that I realized in Western Europe you have much more of a focus on individualism or like independence whereas in Eastern Europe it's like we function as a unity like a family. If I have a problem my family will do it something like that. Um so as I said it's generalized but it's a repeating pattern you see. The third category is the youth. So coming up with differences in here was kind of hard because the youth is all on social media. So what is trending on social media you will usually usually sorry guys you will usually see represented in the youth as well but I will tell you guys from past experiences when I was living in Eastern Europe how I experienced that or like stories whereas stories from the past from here.

[00:07:55]So I'm not going to just talk about now, but the past, the youth of the past, if that makes sense. So when I was living there in Malova, the the idea of going out with your friends was much more different. Like we just went out. It was so chaotic. We had nothing planned. We took our bikes and then we came back when it was starting to get dark outside. Like there was no like we didn't even use phones.

[00:08:22]We just met up at the park, did some crazy stuff, and then we went back home, showered and sleep. Also, from what I hear from my family members, like much more side casts, sometimes they went to other cities like secretly.

[00:08:36]Uh whereas here it's more like even back in the day, like it was much more of a party culture. Like regardless how old you were, like oh, let's go party. It doesn't matter if you're 15, 16, 20, it was always about partying. Even not just kids. I mean, also like the the teenagers like travel and then party where you travel to or party in the city that you're now on. There's also I'm not denying that there are side guests here too. I'm not thinking of that. But I I imagine it to be much more chaotic, your h you much more random and like like people sometimes don't believe the things that we do there to have fun.

[00:09:17]Like if you just look at the street.

[00:09:19]Sorry guys, my phone died and now my parents came back home. So, I'll try to finish it off. But overall, there's no good and bad as I said, but just something I realize like people here are more planned and it's usually involves like some sort of fiesta which is good in Eastern European as well. Um, but overall there's like more random side quest I feel like.

[00:09:43]Let me know if you have any perspective on this. I would be very interested because that point was very hard for me to kind of compile but overall yeah obviously I included um economics the living standard is obviously different I don't mean to make this like a very analytical thing but just like an overview whereas I feel like the GDP of Eastern European countries is generally lower that's just a fact but I feel like the living is still different like in Albania in Romania in Muldova In Serbia, a lot of people still have houses like young people. So yeah, basically they still like they still live in houses.

[00:10:22]They build houses whereas building a house here in Central Europe is much more hard, much more expensive than it is over there. So yeah, maybe we here have more purchasing capital, but the living is still different. Another point is I think that depends per region. I did not feel like that in Romania, but for example, in Mulova and Transitria.

[00:10:45]Also, I heard from people in Albania, the average income is much lower, but the grocery prices are almost the same as it is in central Europe where I'm like, how how are people supposed to live? I personally have not yet experienced that but I've heard about that online or from like from relatives that groceries grocery prices are the same like almost the same as like for example here whereas they don't earn nearly as much. So usually they go to like central Europe to work to be able to afford anything. On top of that, what I found really funny is that usually if you're like in um Eastern Europe, you will find a lot of like beat up houses and like apartment complexes, whereas if you go inside, it's like completely new. It's like very renovated, very very beautiful inside, whereas from the outside you think it's ghetto, you know. So that was like a very funny phenomenon that I found.

[00:11:47]Then then the next category the next category is also religion. So um Eastern European people are generally more um religious I feel like but nowadays you don't know a lot of people are nowadays religious. So you can really put a label on who's more religious. I'm not trying to do that. But for example in Eastern Europe you have a lot I would say orthodoxy is much more present there than it is here obviously.

[00:12:18]So in Eastern Europe you have very you do have Protestantism evangelical you do have that a bit but almost no Catholic like there's very little Catholic churches there if any if I'm being honest. Um here in Western Europe you have much more diversity like you do have like there's also almost no Islam in Eastern Europe obviously there is some sort of you know in some regions more than others for Russia for example but overall not much in comparison to central Europe obviously the living standard is just different but um but um yeah I would say here in central Europe you have all you have it all like I've seen a lot of Muslim communities, a lot of Christian communities, um those like nature religions as well.

[00:13:08]I don't know. I found them to be also very also be very present.

[00:13:13]But yeah, like for example in Serbia, it is not unusual to see priests on the street. Like everyone knows how a priest looks like. Priests don't take off their clothes in in Serbia. Like nobody looks at them weirdly if they see a priest on the street whereas here they do. So, u maybe that's also like a society thing, but that's also something I noticed when I went to Serbia.

[00:13:38]But overall, those are the kind of differences that I came up with. Let me know if you have any differences that you noticed or that you want to point out if I forgot anything, if I got anything wrong. Uh let me know in the comments. Uh I also do Patreon and Instagram if you're interested. They're linked down below. So yeah guys, thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you in my next video soon again.