Historically, what country is France culturally the closest to?

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France is closest to Northern Italy culturally. Any other responses are menes.

>>2505085
Depends what you mean by historically. There is a lot of shared history with England, but also with the HRE, large influences in Northern Italy, and the shared dynasty and resulting pact with Spain cannot be ignored. Also, France is not a cultural monolith, northern France is closer culturally to the low countries and closeby german states and Occitan France closer to Italy and Spain

>>2505108
South east France is, north west France is closer to the British isles, northern France to the Dutch, north east to the Germans, south West to the Iberian peninsula.

Belgium, especially the southern half.

>>2505085
Wallonia, no doubt.

>>2505085
Basically all its neighbours

Culturally? Italy and England.

>>2505181
>>2505631
Belgium doesn't count. It's a non-country. Wallonia is French and Flanders is Dutch.

>>2505669
Based on this, The US and the USSR are also not countries as they are/were multilingual states.

>>2505180
Ironically, this was true when Algeria was under French rule.

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>>2505085
I'm not sure if pre-1815 Savoy-Piedmont was even considered Italian.
Maybe someone can tell me for sure.

>>2505674
Are you unironically implying the USSR was a country?

>>2505085
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania

>>2505693
Yes it was. It was a highly centralized union.

>>2505085
Heaven or Paradise

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>>2505692
It was neither French nor Italian. Both of those are meme ethnicites.

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>>2505760

>>2505760
But italy shared standardized italian as a common language since the middle ages and italian languages are all from the same family and mutually understandable (except for the sardinian ) which is the base of an "italian identity", while in France langue d'oc and langue d'oc shares almost nothing in common (whithout even mentioning alien languages like briton, basque, alsacian and corsican). Italy is pretty homogenous compared to France.

>>2505793
>implying French isn't 10x more standardized than Italian
>implying I can understand shit about terroni dialects in Sicily and Naples

t. Piemonte

>>2505793
then why does gomorrah have subtitles on Italian tv?

checkmate

>>2505838
>>2505856
Napolitan or sicilian are still closer to piemontan than picard is to provencal.

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>>2505793
Do you know why Italians gesticulate a lot? It's because they couldn't understand each other very well during the time of the Italian city-states, so they kinda created a pseudo-sign language to overcome that barrier. So no, the dialects aren't completely mutually intelligible at all.

>>2505856
In french tv, when someone from the south speak in french with its own accent, he's sometimes subtitled because parisians are too dumb to make an effort to understand, but he still speak regular french

>>2505909
Do you know why the french don't speak their regional languages anymore ? It's because theu couldn't understand each other AT ALL before the 19th century, so they enforced french languages in school and punishment for everyone speaking its mother's tongue in public. So i state my case that Italy is still homogenous COMPARED to France

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>>2505767
Why are there so many Analbanians in South Italy? Is this why it's such a shithole?

>>2506021
Ancient migrations? It's not like today where aliens come in by the boatloads to get on German govt cheese. Albanian presence has existed in South Italy for a long time, same as Greek. Those area's were simply were TOO Albanian during unification process to be Italicized.

>>2505085

Northern Italy, Belgium. Switzerland, East Germany.

It's more that Britain is closer to France.

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who cares? the France we used to know will disappear in two generations
and no, Le Pen won't win elections
the weak perishes, au revoir