What you wrote about religious heritage is also weird... Protestant Austria? France?
What you're meaning is just Germanic countries (except France).
To the grandparent: Luxembourg's dirty secret is corruption. France has high unemployment. Standards of living are actually pretty nice under the sun, and outside of the high-pay but nerve-wracking shitty weather of "the north". I agree on the more discipline part, but only when it comes to public behaviour.
Where in western Europe have you lived?
If you ever meet anyone from Dalmatia, ask them what their word "fjaka" means, then ask them why they have it...
And of course, terrorist is simply nothing more than a stereotype, because there is no pattern at all which could possibly correlate the string of terror acts. Those terrorists are actually Buddhists from Tibet, that's what those are!
How could I have been so wrong??? Horrible, deplorable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_E...
Being a foundation in 17th century doesn't mean it hasn't floundered since. But that's not the point either.
To quote WIkipedia:
"Western Europe is the region comprising the western part of the European continent. There may be differences between the geopolitical and purely geographic definitions of the term."
Already we were discussing here the original article, which used a more restrictive definition -- and explained that.