What are three differences between the ashkenazi and sephardic jewish cultures of europe?

In one technical sense, 'Ashkenazi' means Jewish and descended from specific communities that settled in what is now France and Germany during the first millennium.  In casual usage it's broader, meaning Jewish and of European descent (as opposed to Middle Eastern or North African).  Most of the European Jewish communities between the Rhine and the Pale of Settlement descended from those same Western European communities anyway.

'Sephardic' technically indicates adherence to a set of religious and cultural traditions that are different from those of European Jews, but in casual usage it indicates ethnicity or geographic origin.  'Jewish and of Middle Eastern/North African descent'.  'Mizrahi' is a more technically appropriate term for a Jew whose recent ancestors are 'Eastern', which is how it literally translates.

Three differences between the Ashkenazy and Sephardic Jewish cultures of Europe are

Ashkenazi  Jews are the Jews of France, Germany, and Eastern Europe.   Sephardic Jews are the Jews of Spain, Portugal, North Africa, and the   Middle East Ashkenazi Jews during Pesach avoid eating rice, corn, peanuts, and beansSephardic Jews during Pesach may eat rice, corn, peanuts, and beansAshkenazi Jews tended to be isolated from their non-Jewish neighborsSephardic Jews have been more integrated to their non-Jewish neighbors