Europe ' s old castles , cathedrals , town squares , sculptures and paintings etc never fail to amaze me . I ' m from Asia and was going to study in the US but chose to go to Germany at the last minute . Since then , travelling about towns like Rothenburg and Bamberg , Regensburg etc and seeing so many countries each with their own symbolic economies has been so much worth it from drugs in Amsterdam to St Pauli in Hamburg to a river tour of Copenhagen to St . Vitus Cathedral in Prague . And then there is an exciting young , music scene in Berlin and Paris that offers so much diversity . There ' s a part of me that wonders if I would have been this culturally developed if I ' d gone to the US , but I doubt it . I understand why that is too the US is simply too young a country to have such a cultural inheritance , but Europe is simply on a whole other level and probably the best artistic region in the world . And then , there ' s all these different languages that make the hair on the back on my neck stand up . I ' m currently reading European literature myself over the centuries and it ' s so enriching . I ' d really recommend immersing yourself into European culture to anyone wanting to develop for the better .