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I invite You to talki about regional stereotypes and rivalry in your countries. It's always such a nice thing to hear about.
For example, in Poland, it is believed that citizens of Warsaw are snobish and boastful, the Major Poles are kind of like Germans - punctual, hard-working, obeying law and stingy. Stinginess is also applied by former Congress Kingdom citizens to the citizens of former Galizia. The West is more left-winged/liberal, the east is more conservative and religious. Rivalry exists between certain cities, like between Bygdoszcz (Bromberg) and Torun (Thorn; Torun would rather be a regular city in Pomeranian voivodhip than a half-capital in Kuiavian one, because Bydgoszcz was supposed to get the other half of regional capital status). before ww2 a great rivalry existed between Gliwice (Gleiwitz), Bytom (Beuthern) and Zabrze (Hindenburg), three cities of german part of Upper Silesia, because they were of similar size and strenght, and located next to each other. Even today, we, the citizens of Gliwice, dismiss Zabrze claiming it is not a real city, because it doesn't have a marketplace. But it seems out real enemy is nowdays the capital region, Katowice. Each citizen of my city will agree that it is horribly ugly (but entire Poland would concur, it's simply true), it has no history (and Gliwice should be made regional capital instead of it). Rivalries exist elsewhere - between Zielona Gora (Gruenberg) and Gorzow (Landsberg).
In my father's region, the three major cities are Rzeszow, Tarnow and Przemysl. Some dismiss Rzeszow calling it Mojrzeszow (city of Moses, that is, of the Jews), while in Rzeszow it is claimed Tarnow is the city of the gypsies, and when it comes to Przemysl, it is a bit too ukrainian.
In history, a great rivalry existed between cities of Gdans (Danzig) and Elblag (Elbing), to the point that the cities engaged in a war against each other. When it comes to Torun (Thorn), its former greatest enemy was Nieszawa, which Torun managed to destroy by king's order.
Anyway, talk.
For example, in Poland, it is believed that citizens of Warsaw are snobish and boastful, the Major Poles are kind of like Germans - punctual, hard-working, obeying law and stingy. Stinginess is also applied by former Congress Kingdom citizens to the citizens of former Galizia. The West is more left-winged/liberal, the east is more conservative and religious. Rivalry exists between certain cities, like between Bygdoszcz (Bromberg) and Torun (Thorn; Torun would rather be a regular city in Pomeranian voivodhip than a half-capital in Kuiavian one, because Bydgoszcz was supposed to get the other half of regional capital status). before ww2 a great rivalry existed between Gliwice (Gleiwitz), Bytom (Beuthern) and Zabrze (Hindenburg), three cities of german part of Upper Silesia, because they were of similar size and strenght, and located next to each other. Even today, we, the citizens of Gliwice, dismiss Zabrze claiming it is not a real city, because it doesn't have a marketplace. But it seems out real enemy is nowdays the capital region, Katowice. Each citizen of my city will agree that it is horribly ugly (but entire Poland would concur, it's simply true), it has no history (and Gliwice should be made regional capital instead of it). Rivalries exist elsewhere - between Zielona Gora (Gruenberg) and Gorzow (Landsberg).
In my father's region, the three major cities are Rzeszow, Tarnow and Przemysl. Some dismiss Rzeszow calling it Mojrzeszow (city of Moses, that is, of the Jews), while in Rzeszow it is claimed Tarnow is the city of the gypsies, and when it comes to Przemysl, it is a bit too ukrainian.
In history, a great rivalry existed between cities of Gdans (Danzig) and Elblag (Elbing), to the point that the cities engaged in a war against each other. When it comes to Torun (Thorn), its former greatest enemy was Nieszawa, which Torun managed to destroy by king's order.
Anyway, talk.
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