Are Croats closer to French or Romanians ?

[Jana]

But, both Croatia and France are mostly Roman Catholic. However, Romania is mostly Roman Orthodox. This is one of the aspects which make Croatia closer to France rather than Romania.

Yes, but France is very secular unlike Croatia and Romania. Croats are quite Catholic, French are not

[Jana]

Lol what? Ofc Romanians

what is ''LOL'' about this question ? Since you said Croats look indistinguishable from Albanians and only seen our dispora in Sweden (BiH Croats mostly), I don't think you are knowledgable about us in general.
and I don't think we are more like France. Just your attitude is pretty arrogant and dumb

[Ouistreham]

I would like to hear some reasonable posts, because it's really interesting question if you think about it.

Yes, this is an interesting question.
Other than their obvious relationship to Slovenes and Serbians, Croatians have some commonalities with Italians and Hungarians, maybe with the Czechs and Poles too, not much with France.
Most sensible answer would be Romania, because both countries are on the margin of the Balkanic culture and share dinarid/Ukrainian phenotypes... but not too much.

[Jana]

Yes, this is an interesting question.
Other than their obvious relationship to Slovenes and Serbians, Croatians have some commonalities with Italians and Hungarians, maybe with the Czechs and Poles too, not much with France.
Most sensible answer would be Romania, because both countries are on the margin of the Balkanic culture and share dinarid/Ukrainian phenotypes... but not too much.

This is kind of answer I was looking for

[Aren]

what is ''LOL'' about this question ? Since you said Croats look indistinguishable from Albanians and only seen our dispora in Sweden (BiH Croats mostly), I don't think you are knowledgable about us in general.
and I don't think we are more like France. Just your attitude is pretty arrogant and dumb

I can't believe you remember something in a thread months ago, and I didn't even say something close to that. I said that most of the Croats I see here in Sweden, I would confuse them more so with Albanians than with ethnic Swedes.
I grew up in a heavily inustrial city in southern Sweden that received a lot of Balkan immigrants during the 90s, I know many, many Serbs,Bosniaks and Croats. Espeically Croats since I'm Catholic myself and I took my first communion in a Church with mainly Croats.
You think my attitude is arrogant cause I'm exposing your Nordicistic thinking.

[Jana]

To add, Croats don't know much either about Romanians or French. So there are funny stereotypes about both.
actually France and Romania had more contact between each other than any of them had with Croatia

[Jana]

I can't believe you remember something in a thread months ago, and I didn't even say something close to that. I said that most of the Croats I see here in Sweden, I would confuse them more so with Albanians than with ethnic Swedes.
I grew up in a heavily inustrial city in southern Sweden that received a lot of Balkan immigrants during the 90s, I know many, many Serbs,Bosniaks and Croats. Espeically Croats since I'm Catholic myself and I took my first communion in a Church with mainly Croats.
You think my attitude is arrogant cause I'm exposing your Nordicistic thinking.

Croats in Sweden are Balkan immigrants because they are from Bosnia mostly (and many war refugees)
Average Croats from Croatia doesn't not feel nor identify with ''Balkan'' and I don't want to be arrogant, but it is working class people that went there, so you can't get full insight into our culture.

There is nothing nordicist about my thinking except for fact my own phenotype is mostly nordid spectrum. Perhaps I even portray Croats as darker and more Balkan than they are, because such is the city I grew up in.

[Jana]

I would like to hear Romanian members input too

[Carpatz]

Can't think of any significant similarity between Croats and the French besides the Roman Catholic religion. And as for those gedmatch calculators, It's far more likely for a Romanian to plot closely to Croats and vice versa than it is for a Frenchman.

[Ouistreham]

This is kind of answer I was looking for

Thanks.
But, you know, it's not easy to say what Croatia is.
Half of the country is absolutely Central Europe, and half is unmistakeably Mediterranean. Between Split and Zagreb the differences are like between Valencia (Spain) and Cracovia (Poland). (Believe me, I spent some time in both locations)
But all in all, the general mood is slightly leaning toward pre-Balkanic, like Romania.