Stereotypes are hard to die and they are more complex than we may think. Because if it’s very easy to dismiss them as superficial nonsense, sometimes they do hold a grain of truth, under all that silly fluff.
I don’t think there is anything in my country as stereotyped as the apparently conflictual relationship between North and South, and between Northerners and Southerners: the North is better organized, the South more approximate; the North has no good food and the South has all the good stuff. Northerners are boring and obsessed with work, Southerners love fun but they are lazier. The North is modern and European, but the South has all the cool cultural stuff.
