40 Normalized Things In Europe That Are Unknown In The US, According To The Internet

You can cross someone's land and still respect it. Much of Dartmoor is privately owned, but there are ancient rights to roam across it that still exist.

The "right of way" is in use in many European countries and a century old right. These are marked hiking paths, the entrances require climbing a ladder or using a self-closing flap-door, and if you encounter lifestock, it is at your own risk.

Unless you're native American....

When I was 7 years old and locked out of my rural home, I had to walk an extra 1.5 miles around a corn field because our neighbor came out and threatened to shoot my 11 year old brother and I for walking the hypotenuse of of the county roads that would bring us to a friend’s place in Midwestern fall to wait for our mother. F**k this person and his property rights! We were children trying not to freeze to death in the 1990’s !

Respect other human beeings more than the concept of property maybe? Why and how is it that a piece of land is more worth, than a human life?

You obviously don't understand the concept of respect.

How if just walking through something disrespectful?

And how exactly walking through it is disrespecting it?

I think I can hear Native American laugh from somewhere...

Those signs go back to the days when black Americans were freed from slavery and began to feed themselves by foraging off the lands. The former slave owners, ANGRY they had nobody willing to farm their lands FOR FREE, and not wanting to PAY PEOPLE to do it, ensured that the land doled out to black Americans was the least farmable, least foragable land, then charged EXORBITANT prices in local markets and store for food; while making laws against foraging, WHICH STILL EXIST in many parts of the United States today. Respect? No. Try Racism. So much of what we think is "normal" is based in the white supremacy of our ancestors: and it's covered up with the faux outrage of our elders claiming that people are trying to "make everything about something it's not". No sir. It was that. It's always been that. Black people red lined into cities, food deserts, laws against urban planting, no foraging... "Property" you've no idea how right you are... but how wrong the context of which the people putting up the signs see it.

Here in Denmark you have right to walk any path existing. As it have been the rule for ages no landowner have the perception of his paths being private property as such. Any coastline, also along rivers and around lakes are public even though actually owned by some. Like the path detail is this a well known fact, hence also to those who buys a house down to the beach. Building within 100 meters from the waterline is additionall prohibited to keep the coastline free!

The respect exists, because you won't make a mess on others' properties, you won't litter or damage, just pass by.

do not do that

There is nothing disrespectful about exploring and enjoying nature.

Sorry to interject, but private and sovereign, are not synonymous. Nor are freedom and anarchy. Nor are law and order. The whole point of the ancient Greek's mastery of society management, is precisely that difference. Why americans abandoned that when they boarded the mayflower, has always baffled me.

You can walk across land without disrespecting it. Try it some time.

How does walking across another person's land damage them, other than some vague and insubstantial privacy argument. If it isn't the person's house it doesn't invade their privacy

That's the point though, they do respect the property.

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lol, an American talking about respect 🤣

That's not how it works. There may be some places where the law will actually allow you to go to places that haven't specifically excluded you somehow, but in most places it just means you're not guilty of criminal trespassing until you stay after being told to leave. In many places you can be sued for criminal trespass even when there's no posted information telling people to stay off of the property.

What does purple paint mean?? American here- prone to roaming- would like to know please

What's the purple paint for? Never heard of this. But I've not been to the US since I was a kid.

That's awesome. In America, this isn't the majority. I was just driving a country road last week when I came across a sign that said 'private road not a f****n' turn around, trespassers will be shot.' A highschool girl sitting in the backseat of a lost car turning around and lost, and a young kid who knocked on the wrong door (and NEVER tried to get inside) have been shot and killed in America recently.