# What Countries Are You Favourable To?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 19, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-are-you-favourable-to/575271 "2011-03-19T19:14:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jules28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Jules28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules28)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-are-you-favourable-to/575271/81 "2011-04-01T17:52:48Z")

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I like Italy, Bologna in particular for the food and the [charming hotels](http://www.sletoh.com/book/Bologna-hotels-191703.html). I love to cook and there’s something hearty and filling about Italian food that does it for me. Also Spain, I love Spain - it makes me think of sunshine and oranges 🙂  
And Switzerland - I’m fascinated by their aura of precision! Plus I love chocolate and cheese.  
Maybe not the world’s greatest reasons but hey, we can’t all be deep.

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**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-are-you-favourable-to/575271/82 "2011-04-02T08:50:53Z")

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I won’t express any feelings towards countries I haven’t visited properly a couple of times (lack of data), so of the many countries I’ve been to (from closest to furthest away):

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[li]I like the other Nordic countries (except Denmark’s current xenofobia): Almost like ourselves. Nice and familiar, but still different enough to be stimulating.[/li][li]I like France. Great food, great wine. The Quartier Latin.[/li][li]I like Italy. Great food, great wine. Sun and milennium-long cultural history.[/li][li]I’ve got a love/hate relationship to USA. Founder of most of the West’s current popular culture, almost a continent by itself with great geographical contrasts, a wonderfully trashy food culture (_nobody_ else could have invented deep-fried cheese sticks!), but with a superiority complex like nobody else, public servants even more arrogant and nasty than France’s and an anti-intellecualism and a right-wing political movement that seems just weird to a European. Oh, and the imperialism/world police thingy.[/li][li]I’ve got mixed feelings about China. Maybe it’s the cultural divide.[/li][li]I love Japan. Great food, excellent engineers. Fascinating culture. Impressive martial aids.[/li][li]I kinda like New Zealand. People seem nice, and they’ve got a countryside I’d really like to explore a lot more.[/li][/ul]

I still haven’t been to Australia, 99% of Africa, SE Asia, the Indian subcontinent or what used to be the Soviet Union influential sphere, though. Pity, I gotta see to that sometime.

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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-countries-are-you-favourable-to/575271/83 "2011-04-02T18:55:39Z")

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Always wanted to visit Turkey, Greece, and Portugal. No idea why, though all the islands around Greece sound interesting to explore.

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