Rank neighboring countries by most to least similar culture/mentality to your country

[Aldaris]

Czech Republic had German immigration, so the closest would be Hungary?

Slovakia is the closest to us by any means. And Hungary doesn't even border our country.

[Jana]

Nah. Austria doesn't have much in common with Czechia, despite for the similar crappy cuisine. And they still despise us. They probably forgot about the times when we fed them our bread, while they were starving. Disregarding that, then still Poland is much closer to us culturally.

Poland is most Catholic country in Europe while Czechia is most atheistic one. You're way more NATO/US sceptic than them. You're more liberal while they are more conservative.
You're Czech and not me so you know the best, but do you admit your dislike for Germans (in this case Austrians) blurrs your perspective a bit?

to average outsider Poles seem notably more "eastern" culturally. They also have cult of victimhood and heroism while Czechs seem way more chill and humorous.

[Dušan]

1. Serb Republic in Bosnia-Herzegovina
2. Montenegro

3. N. Macedonia


4. Croatia

5. Bulgaria
6. Romania

7. Hungary



8. Albania

[Atlantic Reptilian]

Slovenia/Bosnia (Croatian parts) tie
Hungary
Italy/Serbia/Montenegro/Bosnia (Serbian parts) tie
Bosnia (muslim parts)

Hehe. It's confusing for me because if I were to answer this question, I wouldn't align with either majority.


Anyways,
for Sweden, I would say that Denmark is probably the closest.

For Bosnia I can only speak for Tuzla canton, which I would say is mostly similar to Austria, Slovenia and some parts of Croatia. I get the impression that they are more pro-EU (Germany and Austria) as compared to Republika Srpska.

[Thracian]

Turkey is quite big and very diverse. That's why I speak for my region AKA Eastern Thrace.

1. Bulgaria
2. Greece
3. Azerbaijan
4. Iran, Armenia, Georgia
5. Syria and Iraq

[Zohor]

I don't inderstand how can we tell, I mean stuff like mentality is pretty much individual stuff, you can't say for example statistic Hungarian is 70% religious and 30% not, I hope you understand what I mean.

In case of culture itself of course it's much easier to base for example on religion, language, history etc but also we need to consider conditions for example if we count for example customs from only last century/decade or since let's say Middle Ages, what aspects of culture we take into account and so on.

I am a big fan of such threads I just think the question needs to be a bit more precised

ANYWAYS

I am quite lazy so I will simply copy the results of analysis at https://objectivelists.com/2020/05/3...ilarity-index/ for Poland, in the link you can check what aspects are taken into account

If we compare only Polish neighbours it's

1. Slovakia
2. Czech Rep.
3. Lithuania
4. Ukraine
5. Germany
6. Belarus
7. Russia

Basically East Slavs and Germans have smaller cultural similarity here mostly because of religion, differences in language and in case of East Slavs writing so also alphabet as it

[Kiel]

Slovakia
Slovenia, Croatia tie
Austria, Serbia tie
Romania
Ukraine

[Gergő Marosvári]

1. Croatia
2. Slovakia
3. Slovenia
4. Serbia
5. Ukraine
6. Romania
7. Austria

[Aldaris]

Poland is most Catholic country in Europe while Czechia is most atheistic one. You're way more NATO/US sceptic than them. You're more liberal while they are more conservative.

If we are more liberal, that's up to question. Also how many Polish are actually devout catholics? And how many Czechs are actual atheists, in the most strict sense of the word? There certainly is a gap, but perhaps not as huge as people assume.

You're Czech and not me so you know the best, but do you admit your dislike for Germans (in this case Austrians) blurrs your perspective a bit?

That may be, but it doesn't mean I'm wrong. That I might have a certain agenda doesn't affect the actual reality. We can make a poll and check the results.

to average outsider Poles seem notably more "eastern" culturally. They also have cult of victimhood and heroism while Czechs seem way more chill and humorous.

Sure thing, but compare Czechs to Austrians. Czechs are seen more eastern culturally in comparison with Austrians, much more so than the Polish are seen eastern culturally in comparison with Czechs. Also, we're not all Švejks. :-)

[Blondie]

1. Serbia
2. Slovakia
3. Croatia
4. Romania
5. Ukraine
6. Slovenia
7. Austria