Are Southern Europeans Lazy?

The whole "European Debt Crisis" is because countries like Italy, Spain and Greece are in debt and don't produce anything. They are dragging down the rest of Europe with them. Now countries like Germany and the UK have to bail them out along with the rest of Europe which is leeching off of them. Are Northern Europeans just harder workers/more intelligent than Southern Europeans?|||Southern Europeans tend to not pay their taxes and/or evade paying their taxes. There is more honesty in the North.|||The power of stereotypes.





Southern European countries being lazy is BS. When you look at actual figures, the data simple doesn't match the 'they're just lazy' claims. Working hours of Spain and Italy are well above countries such as the UK. Problem is that salaries are way lower so people have less money to spend while the prices of most items, including real estate, does match that of northern european countries.





And lets not forget that both Greece and Spain are relatively young democracies. They've had to adopt a democratic system (and often dealt and still deal with the remains of the old dictatorial regimes) in a very short period of time. Spain's infrastructure for instance was virtually non-existant. For strategic reasons, dictator Franco never build a high-way system between large cities such as Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid (to avoid attacking troops reaching his Madrid stronghold in case of a coup).





%26lt;%26lt;Now countries like Germany and the UK have to bail them out%26gt;%26gt;





The UK is not in the Eurozone so it isn't bailing anyone out.





How about you get your facts right first before accusing others of being 'just too lazy'?|||I think its due to a difference in government structures. Northern European states tend to be more socialist (not necessarily a good thing, but works for Sweden) or the governments provide for their people. Southern Europeans are not used to the same benefits. Their governments have been torn apart by socialism/communism/corruptness and the people do not trust the governments therefore they don't like paying taxes.|||That's a ridiculous thing to say. Spain produces most of the world's olive oil. It also produces much of the UK's fruit and vegetables through the winter. Almost all of the UK's strawberries through the winter come from Huelva Province. All of the world's sherry comes from Jerez in Spain, so time to re-evaluate your question!





Seat cars are produced in Spain. That is unlike the UK that has no cars to identify to the country. Companies such as Leyland have long since disappeared!|||Spanish are known to be lazy if you are in Spain you will find people idling and lazing off on the streets and they spend most of their time watching bullfights it was shown on discovery sorry if it hurts someone|||you can always point at socialist policies that became a gigantic burden for the tax payers to pay into. for the past 50 yrs.


or just say


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