Here are six signposts for snagging that beautiful boy with the accent. Your Americanness is an asset. Playing up the fact that you were a bonafide Texas cheerleader in high school carries with it a mystique that favorably positions you ahead of the cigarette-sucking angst of your European-born female counterparts. They expect you to be ignorant.

Many Europeans harbor all manner of anti-American prejudices, but perhaps the most cloying is the belief by some that Stateside girls are ignorant of the cultural and historical influences that shape the world.

For the Europeans, little to no Dog and Cat games playing. What are the main differences between American and European dating cultures? What cultural differences should I be aware of when searching for jobs in Europe (Germany) vs​.

Facebook has been left red-faced after being forced to call off the launch date of its dating service in Europe because it failed to give its lead EU data regulator enough advanced warning — including failing to demonstrate it had performed a legally required assessment of privacy risks. In a statement on its website, the DPC said Facebook first contacted it about the rollout of the dating feature in the EU on February 3.

Facebook announced its plan to get into the dating game all the way back in May , trailing its Tinder-encroaching idea to bake a dating feature for non-friends into its social network at its F8 developer conference. It went on to test launch the product in Colombia a few months later. It also launched in the U. At the time of its U. Which is a nice way of the DPC saying Facebook spent a whole week still not sending it the required information.

We worked carefully to create strong privacy safeguards, and complete the data processing impact assessment ahead of the proposed launch in Europe, which we shared with the IDPC when it was requested. Update: A Facebook spokesman has now provided us with a second statement — in which it writes:. However, as a courtesy to the Office of the Data Protection Commission, who is our lead regulator for data protection in Europe, we proactively informed them of this proposed launch two weeks in advance.

We had completed the data processing impact assessment well in advance of the European launch, which we shared with the IDPC when they asked for it.