I contracted to have some wooden products made in Slovakia. When the agent delivered the shipment to the warehouse, I invited him to my home for dinner. I had to warn my children that they would smell him- people in his country don’t shower as frequently as we do. He was ripe. It is not religion.
A guy I knew had to arrange NATO contracts in France. Yup. You can guess the rest of the story.
I ran into two Russian Army soldiers in the American BX in Frankfurt, Germany in the 80s. I was suddenly hit by an invisible wall of stench. It was utterly the worst case of BO I ever had the misfortune of encountering.
We had consultant’s from Belgium and when they would come to the US, they would be ripe by the end of the week. They told us we were wasting water. Granted, before running water, many Americans bathed once a week.
I was taking a flight to Florida and sitting next to a Belgian who was here in the United States buying up used Harley-Davidsons to ship back to Europe. He was wearing a leather jacket, and when he reached over to get something his jacket opened up a little bit and Lord have mercy did that boy smell.