France is culturally more northern european or southern european?

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Vladimir ILL

I definitely refuse to answer such a question -
Northern Europe is North Cape and southern Europe is Greece somewhere Makedonia -

France is France and this question is very explosive under very smooth formulation -
Our enemies hate us and want us to be latin monkeys at any price -
Our friends acknowledge that we are a country of synthesis, and among the best educated ones, which are not a majority, people know how long & tricky our history was until today, with a territory such as you can see on maps -

So I am sorry, but feeling myself very comfortable about my fate, having REALLY no reason to envy, hate, or make any dissection of anybody, because latin, eskimo or bantoo, France is a priviledged country, this will be the end of my reply.

France is France - beware of counterfeited people -

Elliott J

Neither. France has its own distinctive culture and many subcultures within its borders.

andrew

France is really in its own category, It is very far from medditeranean culture even in the south coast it is not the same as spain or italy, and architechally throughout the whole country bears little similarity to its german or medditteranean neighbors.
Except in its cities. Which are essentially entirely northern european in the modern building but characteristically french in older structures.

glenjulio

Both and even more...
Close to german border, the culture is a bit similar than in Germany, close to Italian border, a bit like Italy, spain border a bit like spain... but never totally the same.
And for inner regions, it's specific...
Finally, i agree when people say this is neither northern nor southern, just French.

tonton 674

culturally, france is extremely more in the middle...
you can't say south or north
in the north of the france, it's more northern cultural, and in the south, more southern. logical.
every countries have their own cultural particularities, so france is culturally more french. I can't say you anything else...

MPPRH

The question is difficult to answer.

Modern France is quite recent. It is a combination of individual states over the last 900 years. Areas were controlled by Vikings (Normandy), Morrocans (Languedoc), Germans and English. Previously much of todays France was a colony of Italy.

Therefore, each part of France has a culture reflecting its history.

Certainly Belgium has a more latin feel than North France. However, the presence of Paella, tapas and bullfighting in Languedoc is very Spanish.

So, the answer is :

There is no overwhelming common culture - It depends where in France you are !

Brief history of France : http://www.the-france-page.com/france/france-history.html

Peter

...Elhy... [Lovato]

nothern european
or middle europe
we are mix of germanic and celts tribes

- our history is link with the german and english one
ex: france and england have a link history
german and france was one country under charlemagne and the frankish empire( a northern empire)
we dont have a lot of link with italy and spanish ,just the language and some sharing architectur with italy
no , france wasnt a roman's colony, gauls was it
cause france didnt exited.
france was born under the frankish (germanic) empire.

so , the capital is in the north
the republic too
all great thing of france are in the north , all history
and royal things are in the north.
in the south people speak some french dialect , but most of their tradition are celts(gauls)
in the north people are more germanic like in paris or lorraine , moiselle , loire , alsace,normandy
and in the west like britannny region they are very very celts , birtanny is consider like a celtic nation .

yes, france is culturally more nothern european

if you look at the castle , they are the same as in germany or england
achitectur ect
french are more close to german than italian
and physically too
french people are varied , blond and brown ect .. .

french language is a romance language
but have also a strong influence by germanic and celtic language native of the land.

but in the northern its more northern
and in the south it's more southern
france is in the middle
cause the country is very large
and have south(mediterannee sea) and north(north sea,channel , atlantic ocean)

:)

pamplmouss2

both, that's france

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