Regional stereotypes and rivalry in your countries

[Saras]

you sure its not dakota?

[Serb]

Yep.

[VetLegion]

It's probably Dakota but your family don't want to tell you. Like in that "Goodbye Lenin" movie

[Ben Kenobi]

Gosh, lots of regional rivalries here.

There's the west (BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) and Ontario. Then there's Quebec and the Maritimes. I would say there are 5 distinct regions if you count BC as it's own, since it's very different from the other western provinces.

Ontario has the capital region, and the center of the country. Most of the industries are based here in a narrow strip from Windsor to Ottawa. The rest of the province like most of Canada is sparsely populated. The West and Quebec see themselves as hard done by Ontario, and they feel that they are the centre of the universe and that everything revolves around them. There's a rivalry between different parts of BC, the north and the south, the south has the biggest cities, while the north is very rural. Again, the north feels left out of the decisions while the city feels that there's nothing important outside of them.

With our sports teams there are old rivalries between the hockey and football teams, most of the major cities have either a hockey or a football team, and some have both.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by LordShiva


South India > North India

Southern England > Northern England

South of France > North of France

South Korea > North Korea

Southern Sudan > Northern Sudan

(New) South Wales > Wales

South Africa > North Africa

Ireland > Northern Ireland

Congo-Brazzaville > Democratic Republic of Congo


BUT, on teh other side of teh Atlantic:

USA > Confederated States of America

NoVA > Southern Virginia

North Carolina > South Carolina

Northern California > Southern California

North Dakota = South Dakota = WTF is Dakota

You forgot US > Canada.

[LordShiva]

I thought Canada was a county in North Dakota

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by onodera
Well, Muscovites think that people who live in St. Petersburg are snobs who think they are more cultured, that they use wrong words to refer to the most mundane things and that they hate Muscovites.
People who live in St Petersburg think that Muscovites are rich snobs who have no culture at all, talk funny and hate any non-Muscovite.
Other Russians think that Muscovites are rich ***holes who go crazy because they have too much of everything when the common folk needs this money.
Also, Muscovites eye people from the Moscow oblast with suspicion, because they think they'll steal their jobs.
People from the Moscow oblast hate Muscovites because the latter don't have to pay exhorbitant rent to live in Moscow.
And all of them don't like Chechens and other suchlike southerners.

Those aren't stereotypes, they're simply true, right?

[onodera]

Originally posted by Serb


Me thinks it's a different spelling of the same tribe, no?

You're wrong, comrade Serb. You are probably thinking of Tomsk, Omsk and Orsk, which ARE alternate spellings of the same Siberian city :P

[LordShiva]

Oh yeah, Flanders > Wallonia.

Colon^TM

[onodera]

Originally posted by Traianvs


Those aren't stereotypes, they're simply true, right?

How dare you?
We Muscovites are very cultured, tolerant and generous. All other stereotypes are completely true, though.

[Traianvs]

Flemish provinces:

People from Antwerp are arrogant.
Ppl from West-Flanders (the coast) are peasants or else bourgeoisie if they have money.
Pple from Limburg are dumb-witted and slow (due to their accent and their poorer economic capabilities).
Pple from Brabant are insignificant and inconspicuous.

Everyone is fascist, racist and intolerant (from the Wallonian point of view)

Wallonia:

Ppl from Brabant (and Brussels) are French imperialists grabbing land from the Flemish.
The rest is burdened with corruption / clientelism, they're unwilling / incapable to learn Dutch, lazy, profiteers. In short: faded glory (from a Flemish point of view)

[Serb]

Originally posted by onodera

You're wrong, comrade Serb. You are probably thinking of Tomsk, Omsk and Orsk, which ARE alternate spellings of the same Siberian city :P

Are you sure? I heard somewhere that the original name of that tribe was Lakota, but later it trasformed to Dakota.

[Serb]

Originally posted by onodera

How dare you?
We Muscovites are very cultured, tolerant and generous.

Damn ******* right! I was a Muscovite when I was a kid. My culture, tolerance and generosity originates from the years I've spent in Moscow.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Serb

Are you sure? I heard somewhere that the original name of that tribe was Lakota, but later it trasformed to Dakota.

Lakota, what the Lakota call themselves.
Dakota, what we used to call the Lakota.

[chequita guevara]

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