Like this, China – India is quite interesting pairing. Both ancient cultures that have thousands of years shared history. Still distinctly different.
116Q7QM on
Russia and North Korea are probably up there
mrpaninoshouse on
Afghanistan-China though at the province level Xinjiang isn’t as dissimilar
JBWentworth_ on
Egypt & Israel.
mywifemademegetthis on
Has to be China and India. Or France and Suriname if you’re not playing fair.
lottee1000 on
They’re religiously different, there’s a few cultural similarities though, especially with areas the Moors were in. I’d vote China/India, or somewhere like Malaysia/Thailand.
belfman on
Dominican Republic and Haiti? Very little in common today.
2012Jesusdies on
It would have been Mongolia and Russia if not for Russia semi-colonizing it and introducing many of their practices into their country.
nsdmsdS on
New England US and Southeast Mexico cannot be more different, and technically meet the requirement.
lanu15 on
China and India
Hopeful_Kiwi_5974 on
I’d imagine any country that Israel borders
Brass_Cipher on
Morroco and Southern Spain share a lot, it just isn’t always evident on the surface.
TheBanger on
I love this question, Papua New Guinea – Indonesia is an interesting one. It’s also not crazy to say South Africa – Lesotho, though you could more easily argue similarities there. Bonus answer is Mongolia – Kazakhstan, although they technically don’t border they’re only about 10 miles apart i think that’s close enough
gtuzz96 on
France and Brazil are pretty different
ResponsibilityOk2173 on
Spain and Morocco share a lot more similarities than you may think
IamHere-4U on
How do you measure cultural similarity or dissimilarity?
personal_integration on
Israel and EgyptÂ
Sad_Cardiologist_776 on
Israel and Palestine 💀
SanfreakinJ on
Turkey and Armenia. China and India. Russia and North Korea. Turkey and Greece.
bringinsexyback1 on
People who are saying India/China need to read up eastern/oriental history. There’s a lot in common between the two countries.
Music, art, philosophy, literature, teas, Buddhism, cultural practices and medicine to name a few.
Just google a bit and you’ll know.
ComradeBehrund on
Christians and Muslims can at least agree on most of the prophets and the ancestors of both countries here have been passing their chromosomes, languages, art styles, and philosophies back and forth for 2000 years (like the Romans, Numidians, and Vandals). The theocracy of the Vatican vs the Italian Republic? Sudan vs Central African Republic? Indonesia vs Papua New Guinea? Mongolia vs China? Hong Kong vs China?
Depending on your definition of “countries”, I would think the sovereign governments of any country in the Americas with it’s indigenous peoples would probably be most distinctive — or that of New Zealand or Australia. Also depends on which culture in a country we are talking about, the uncontacted people of Brazil with Venezuelan urbanists? Either way, no, I don’t think so.
Candid-Ad-2547 on
France and brazil
viniciusvbf on
Brazil-Suriname is a good one
TrickyWalrus on
Idk man, Canada and America share a pretty big border and are incredibly dissimilar /s
Victor4VPA on
Maybe Armenia and Iran?
palaska95 on
No
Hotrocketry on
Turkey and its european neighbors i think.
Sturnella2017 on
Russia borders a lot of countries, a few of them very, very different: China, Iran, North Korea.
Then there’s Israel and all it’s neighbors.
Dirtyibuprofen on
At one point China and the UK would be a fun answer but that’s in the past now
This line of thinking is making me think of France and Brazil or Suriname but idk enough about those countries to say anything certain
Northlumberman on
Norway and Russia
Economically developed Nordic social democracy with a Germanic language and Protestant religious background, with high levels of respect for human rights.
Middle income kleptocratic autocracy with Slavic language and Soviet and Orthodox background, with high levels of militarism and imperialism.
Also, honourable mentions for North and South Korea (share a language but very different in many other aspects), Brazil and France, Israel and Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia (vast economic difference).
Spexancap10 on
Azerbaijan and Georgia?
XComThrowawayAcct on
As Dave Letterman once said:
>American bacon: crispy and delicious
>Canadian bacon: neither crispy nor delicious.
That’s a cultural divide!
holylight17 on
Thailand and Malaysia?
cowcaver on
Turkey and Bulgaria? Pakistan and China? Sudan and CAR? I’m feeling like there might be some more in Africa.
jaminjamin15 on
These are both Republics in Russia, but Kalmykia (which is majority Buddhist and ethnolinguisticly Mongolic) and Dagestan (which is majority Muslim and ethnolinguisticly NE Caucasian)
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Like this, China – India is quite interesting pairing. Both ancient cultures that have thousands of years shared history. Still distinctly different.
Russia and North Korea are probably up there
Afghanistan-China though at the province level Xinjiang isn’t as dissimilar
Egypt & Israel.
Has to be China and India. Or France and Suriname if you’re not playing fair.
They’re religiously different, there’s a few cultural similarities though, especially with areas the Moors were in. I’d vote China/India, or somewhere like Malaysia/Thailand.
Dominican Republic and Haiti? Very little in common today.
It would have been Mongolia and Russia if not for Russia semi-colonizing it and introducing many of their practices into their country.
New England US and Southeast Mexico cannot be more different, and technically meet the requirement.
China and India
I’d imagine any country that Israel borders
Morroco and Southern Spain share a lot, it just isn’t always evident on the surface.
I love this question, Papua New Guinea – Indonesia is an interesting one. It’s also not crazy to say South Africa – Lesotho, though you could more easily argue similarities there. Bonus answer is Mongolia – Kazakhstan, although they technically don’t border they’re only about 10 miles apart i think that’s close enough
France and Brazil are pretty different
Spain and Morocco share a lot more similarities than you may think
How do you measure cultural similarity or dissimilarity?
Israel and EgyptÂ
Israel and Palestine 💀
Turkey and Armenia. China and India. Russia and North Korea. Turkey and Greece.
People who are saying India/China need to read up eastern/oriental history. There’s a lot in common between the two countries.
Music, art, philosophy, literature, teas, Buddhism, cultural practices and medicine to name a few.
Just google a bit and you’ll know.
Christians and Muslims can at least agree on most of the prophets and the ancestors of both countries here have been passing their chromosomes, languages, art styles, and philosophies back and forth for 2000 years (like the Romans, Numidians, and Vandals). The theocracy of the Vatican vs the Italian Republic? Sudan vs Central African Republic? Indonesia vs Papua New Guinea? Mongolia vs China? Hong Kong vs China?
Depending on your definition of “countries”, I would think the sovereign governments of any country in the Americas with it’s indigenous peoples would probably be most distinctive — or that of New Zealand or Australia. Also depends on which culture in a country we are talking about, the uncontacted people of Brazil with Venezuelan urbanists? Either way, no, I don’t think so.
France and brazil
Brazil-Suriname is a good one
Idk man, Canada and America share a pretty big border and are incredibly dissimilar /s
Maybe Armenia and Iran?
No
Turkey and its european neighbors i think.
Russia borders a lot of countries, a few of them very, very different: China, Iran, North Korea.
Then there’s Israel and all it’s neighbors.
At one point China and the UK would be a fun answer but that’s in the past now
This line of thinking is making me think of France and Brazil or Suriname but idk enough about those countries to say anything certain
Norway and Russia
Economically developed Nordic social democracy with a Germanic language and Protestant religious background, with high levels of respect for human rights.
Middle income kleptocratic autocracy with Slavic language and Soviet and Orthodox background, with high levels of militarism and imperialism.
Also, honourable mentions for North and South Korea (share a language but very different in many other aspects), Brazil and France, Israel and Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia (vast economic difference).
Azerbaijan and Georgia?
As Dave Letterman once said:
>American bacon: crispy and delicious
>Canadian bacon: neither crispy nor delicious.
That’s a cultural divide!
Thailand and Malaysia?
Turkey and Bulgaria? Pakistan and China? Sudan and CAR? I’m feeling like there might be some more in Africa.
These are both Republics in Russia, but Kalmykia (which is majority Buddhist and ethnolinguisticly Mongolic) and Dagestan (which is majority Muslim and ethnolinguisticly NE Caucasian)
USA and Canada, surely!