[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyne%E2%80%93Wear_derby
EDIT: Please forgive me for bringing this up. I appreciate it's not particularly relevant to moomin's comment about the culture of the Nissan plant, which I agree with aside from my nitpicks, nor to the original video.
Have a look at Greek and Turkey for example. Even their cuisine is nearly identical.
Or look at the adherents of the major parties in many countries around the world.
To avoid an American example: if you put a member of the British Tories or Labour into Japan, they will pretty much be seen as just some Brits.
Are you American? That's a long way in terms of cultural differences in the UK.
Why would you assume that?
That's a long way in terms of cultural differences in the UK.
Sure, but it's pretty insignificant to someone not in or familiar with the UK. Which is the vast majority of planet earth.
I didn't assume it - I asked.
> Sure, but it's pretty insignificant to someone not in or familiar with the UK. Which is the vast majority of planet earth.
Yeah... which is why I explained it to you, since it's unfamiliar to so many people.
Did you not want it explained to you?
In Britain, people from both places will leave their shoes on indoors at home, praise the NHS, watch football and think the queen is fine.
This is by no means a universal thing here!
And yes, even the queen is not universally accepted. Famously, the Labour party used to be republican, but seems to have mostly given up on that plank of policy.
In any case, my main point was that intense local rivalries exist, but actual differences between neighbouring places are typically fairly minor.
This can go very deep because as you know (but may be surprising to our American friends) in Europe we have much less cultural uniformity.
For example, in the two towns in Central Italy that I'm thinking about, which are only 15 km apart, people speak completely different dialects that are only partially intelligible one another.
A fun fact is that now I live in Australia which is one of the countries in the world with the least variance in accent. You can't tell Sydney and Perth accents apart, even though the two cities are thousands of kms apart.
Google maps tells me those two places are only 14.3 miles away. So 1) that's pretty understandable to conflate and 2) a lot of people from Newcastle probably commute there.