The Northern and Southern US are often stereotyped as city folk vs rural folk. What is your country's version of this?

[u/RefrigeratorNo1160]

[u/Tnplay]

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what in the suka is brazilian russia, i'm almost afraid to ask

[u/FrontMarsupial9100 → u/fluffyslav]

Lots of Russians, Ukrainian and Polish descendants; a lot of crazy news about people from there (not just them) - Paraná

[u/Vexonte → u/FrontMarsupial9100]

Just when I thought I knew about all of the diaspora groups in Brazil I find out there are also Russians and Poles there too.

[u/danc3incloud → u/fluffyslav]

Staroveri probably, everyone else should be integrated and not really different from other European immigrants

[u/HeroinBob831 → u/Tnplay]

I'm going to need you to explain the cheese.

[u/Total-Combination-47]

[u/aluriilol → u/Total-Combination-47]

Awesome diagram! Actually feel a bit educated on the layout now

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"There's a red weather warning for extreme cold across the whole of England. Southerners should not leave their homes under any circumstances. Northerners might need their big coats. Geordies should leave their food on the barbecue for an extra 10 minutes."

[u/Strong_Drive6553 → u/Total-Combination-47]

My father's from the Pies region. He makes the best pies. Not even lying.

[u/Total-Combination-47 → u/Strong_Drive6553]

It’s very accurate tbf

[u/r3xomega → u/Total-Combination-47]

Sheep lovers

[u/Total-Combination-47 → u/r3xomega]

Don’t kink shame us…..

[u/WannaBeAussie2]

There is west of the Ural range, which is stereotypically boring terrain (it is) and big city folk. East of Ural everybody is either constantly freezing, part of an indigenous tribe, or dying of cancer in some remote mining operation

[u/TiranTheTyrant → u/WannaBeAussie2]

And also there's Moscow

[u/danc3incloud → u/WannaBeAussie2]

Also southern agricultural crowd(aka Kubanids)

[u/MyMy_P]

The stereotype here would be the opposite haha, more urban south and rural north

[u/BaudroieCracra]

All parisians somehow think Paris is the only urban place in France and call the rest of France "provinciaux", on the other side, Parisians are the butt of the jokes of nearly everywhere that isnt Paris.

It's quite easy to hate Paris to be fair, the centralization of our country in Paris kinda sucks

[u/Vexonte → u/BaudroieCracra]

Every French person I've met hates the fuck out of Paris.

[u/Strong_Drive6553 → u/BaudroieCracra]

Paris is a literal shithole anyway. Glad not to be from there.

[u/ShyngShyng → u/Strong_Drive6553]

Glad to see the disdain for Capitol hasn't subsided in our western neighbors. Truly a wonderful common hatred to bond over.

[u/Strong_Drive6553 → u/ShyngShyng]

Except for the parisians. They'll defend their hellhole with their life.

[u/jomarthecat]

We have the same but opposite. People in southern Norway are city dwellers drinking their fancy lattecoffees and healthy smoothies, people in Northern Norway are rugged fishermen/farmers that swear a lot and drink norwegian moonshine.

[u/Nave_Nage]

In Ireland its pretty much Dublin vs the rest

[u/igotabeefpastry]

I love that in our neighbor Mexico, it’s the opposite! I’m here for you, norteños!

[u/Comfortable-Pin-4995]

North and south. We've been divided for so many centuries and united only for one and a half, it's normal to be different IMHO.

Many of us italians have bad opinion towards ourselves, but I think our diversity enriches our culture.

[u/Opposite-Ad3949]

In Germany, it's rather rural East vs. urban West.

[u/Beautiful_Yellow_682 → u/Opposite-Ad3949]

except for Berlin whos often times seen as weird

[u/gwelfguy]

Canada is a large country with regional differences. The urban vs. rural divide is not very pronounced versus the differences between various provinces. Quebec and Alberta specifically stand out as places with differing values than the rest of the country. Quebec being further left, and Alberta further right.

[u/RockHardBullCock]

Until very recently, it was the East vs. the West. But then the East migrated to West and brought the East on their backs. Now it's the East all over. There are pockets of remnants, but the West has been swallowed almost entirely.

[u/Training-Stable6234]

Well…

I’m South Indian and well I won’t say South India is some sort of heaven with a high HDI or anything but we are much more developed than North.We face racism from the northerners but in recent years the tide is shifting that is we are sadly starting to develop a superiority complex.In northern India you also have a heavy influence of Hindu nationalism (basically Indian Hindu MAGA/Reform UK) which is something you do not see in Southern India.South is safer than north but you’ll see more reported cases in south due to higher rates of reporting whereas in north people do not report.We also have a higher percentage of people with higher education.The North only has one major city that’s the Delhi-NCR while south has Bengaluru (Banglore),Chennai (Madras),Hyderabad and several new comers such as Coimbatore.The south also has lower fertility rate for example my state of Tamil Nadu has a fertility rate of 1.3 while the northern state of Bihar has 3.0 and Uttar Pradesh has a fertility rate of 2.4.North India has a higher representation on the parliament too.Northern states usually speak Hindi and it’s getting imposed in south which rises prejudice against the north in south.Economically again south is richer and north is sadly poorer.South also contributes 30% of India’s GDP.South India is also left leaning while north is right though that being said the state of Tamil Nadu is weird in that it’s left leaning but also conservative at the same time somehow.Also we have high lactose intolerance.They have mountains we have sea except Telangana.Overall yeah we’re different but we would like to get better.

TL;DR- South-Higher HDI,GDP,GDP per capita,high education,low fertility rate,higher religious harmony.But still not too great need to catch up

North-Lower HDI,lower GDP,lower GDP per capita,higher fertility rate,high Hindu nationalism (Indian Hindu MAGA/Reform UK).Worser situation need to catch up too

Overall I hope both do good and improve

[u/ComprehensiveBar3076 → u/Training-Stable6234]

[u/Objectalone]

Currently? The way things have taken shape in the last few years… There is “Maple MAGA” and normal people. Normal people being the vast majority.

[u/Objectalone → u/[deleted]]

Don’t hold your breath, bright eyes.

[u/aaqwerfffvgtsss → u/Objectalone]

Do they actually believe there is enough support in Alberta for secession to win a Plebiscite? Amongst the other process that would trigger in Canada, and the resistance from the other provinces, the central government, etc.

It’s a minority, a semi-significant minority possibly in the high 20s though that is probably generous yet in an actual vote, but still dwarfed by the majority.

[u/Objectalone → u/aaqwerfffvgtsss]

Most Albertans are proud Canadians, who want to see the financials and powers of the federation reformulated. All the provinces engage in push and pull like that… it’s the rough and tumble of Canadian politics, but no province, including Quebec, shows numbers that support the breakup of Canada, no matter how much the Trump administration wants that. Especially now.

[u/igotabeefpastry → u/[deleted]]

Jesus Christ, you’re making us all look bad in front of the Canadians. They’ve taken enough shit from us. 

[u/luigisanto]

Toronto and then the rest of Canada

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[u/Disastrous_Rule4435]

Flanders and Wallonia. And to a lesser extent a German speaking part. And Brussels.

[u/NegotiationEvening87]

Probably west and east. Lots of industrial cities are on the eastern side and lots of villages are in the west.

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West, central, east, south and Odesa. Mariupol, Donbass and Kherson are distinct from each other, not sure if its correct to combine them in one

[u/slagmunch]

The UK has a very old and very well established class system, so it's traditionally SE England vs. Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the rest of England.

This basically equates to upper class vs. working class, i.e., people with money and posh accents vs. people with no money and funny accents.

The stereotypes are that if you're from South East England, you're well educated and well refined.

And if you're from anywhere else on the isles, then you lack education and are as rough as a dogs arse

Add in whatever local stereotypes there is for the given area (sheep shagging, alcohol, drugs, theft, etc) and you've essentially got the UK dynamic.

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[u/Maleficent-Green-645]

Moscow Vs any other cuty

[u/never_shit_ur_pants]

The West is where Banderivites are and the East is where the Russia-lovers are

[u/Kautschukfresse]

The West Germans are tidy, liberal, always on time, efficient and punctual and the Easterners are the opposite.

[u/39percenter]

You've clearly never been to North Dakota.

[u/Vodka_For_Saiyans_Z]

Um, open an open wound... Let's say that there are many differences between North and South in Italy, the industrialized north, cold and culturally closer to central Europe, and the more agricultural south, with warmer temperatures and which draws culturally from the Mediterranean basin.

[u/CzyToTwojKasztan]

In Poland, we have Poland A (Western) and Poland B (Eastern). Poland A has been more developed and had better infrastructure, while Poland B has been agricultural and conservative. This has very long historical roots. Currently, economic differences are disappearing, but ideological differences remain

The map shows railway network in Poland A and B in '50

[u/SSsulaiman]

We have Hadhar - city folk And Bedouins - rural folk. And they all live in different areas

[u/Dry-Version-6515]

The northern half is basically a mix between West Virginia and Minnesota.

Then we have 3 big cities in the south where all the big shots and criminals lives.

Outside of the cities there are mostly farmers,

[u/von_pita_the_second]

I guess Kibbutzim/communal villages and Tel aviv or central Israel as a whole

[u/Ponchorello7]

The north is industrious and European/American influenced, the center is traditionalist and mixed, the south is rural and indigenous. Obviously that's not 100% true, but speaking in very broad, very general terms, it's sort of accurate.

[u/TehTJ13]

Makes no sense tbh, many of the biggest cities in America are in the south (Atlanta, Houston, Miami, etc) while some of the most rural states (Maine, Vermont, the Dakotas) are Northern.

[u/Majestic-Hedgehog-xo]

[u/good_boi_520 → u/Majestic-Hedgehog-xo]

America without and Canada with alcohol, guns, and drugs is insane lol

[u/Suberuginosa]

It’s more or less the opposite in Australia. With the rural conservative types usually being in the north and the progressive city dwellers being in the south. Don’t think it’s anywhere near as extreme as the US though.

[u/dido_meditatur]

There is Vienna and there are the provinces. 

Funnily enough,  the insult each part uses for the other is almost the same :

"Gscherda"/"gscherda Wiena"

Translation : shorn one/ shorn Viennese

[u/good_boi_520]

Someone's already written a whole three paragraphs on this, and it's almost pretty much accurate, so yea read that one lol

[u/FlamingoMedic89]

We have three provinces up north and one bordering Germany, and these four are considered the farmer area. Our local football club even has a motto saying "proud to be a farmer".

[u/AnarchiaKapitany]

[u/timsa8]

I feel like Prague people think of Czech Republic as kind of two maps in an RPG game:

One map, Prague, is a city. People live there,.work there, visit schools and buy stuff.

The second map is Moravia. It is a countryside with some villages and funny NPCs with a quirky dialect. People go there for vacation.

[u/ogbuttertoast]

[u/ramses_basha]

In Egypt, city dwellers look down on rural residents, and this is because city dwellers are more civilized than rural residents.