Where is the north/south divide?
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The north and south of England are culturally, economically, historically and accently different. But where exactly is the line that splits the country?
Written and presented by
JAY FOREMAN and MARK COOPER-JONES
Edited by
JAY FOREMAN
Directed by
PAUL KENDLER
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ROBIN KAY
MATT WARD
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This video is an affront to the proud British tradition of drawing straight lines through countries.
Lol 😂
lol
OTHER peoples' countries only!
@God Save The Queen and TommyKay We don't, we say Bath. Why do you say Bæth like in old english?
Important qualifier: *other countries
hats of to the bloke who just drew the scotish border
Before this video i thought that the north-south divide was just fancy-terms for the english-scottish border
@@haris6772 I think from a technical standpoint it's the point at which you go from thinking London is cool and it's great to be able to go visit. To London is an expensive, functionality separate entity you wish we just leave the rest of us alone.
@@Talshere88 bro chill it's a joke; no need to diss the uk like that
Yugi Muto Scottish has two T’s
FREEDOM!!!
"What we need is a geography teacher."
-Mark Cooper-Jones, a geography teacher
that explains alot
I like that Mark is essentially the absolute archetype of what northerners think southerners are like
Indeed! The last words said in this episode is "mahogany, mahogany", thereby fulfilling the stereotype!
Did he go to Eton?
FLORIDA--The further north you drive, the more southern it gets.
Also, the further south you drive, the more northern it gets. And vice versa.
@@ethanh6370 vice versa is just the original comment
@@ethanh6370 ah, my mistake
Go up to a Floridian and say there not southern you'll get shot bud
True true
Squiggly lines are always a sign that it's a good map. My history teacher would constantly draw maps of Europe with incredibly squiggly coastlines, so the entire school would just assume his maps were perfect. Took me a while to realise his squiggles were just random.
“Ummm, Sir, when did Germany reclaim the Sudetenland?!”
Lol
@@omega9409 "Soon."
My teacher just drew great britain as a triangle, and france as a square.
What did he draw Germany like? I’d vote for a rectangle with a tiny hat.
Yeah... my family is "northern German"(Hamburg) and they moved to southern Germany(Stuttgart) for better economic prospects, where I grew up. I was told to keep away from the southern culture and language, as a child, since it was considered inferior, by my parents. All people in our household were asked to speak "high German" around me- which is the version of the German language originating in Nether-Saxony/ Lower-Saxony and termed "high" since it is distinct from the regional "nether" dialects. So it doesn't mean "better" or "posh" German, and it is also not from high up on some mountain. It is however the kind of German taught internationally and the kind considered generally free of any dialect. So in my mind there is a clear north-south divide in Germany, too. But later my family moved to Cologne and I moved to Berlin and now don't get me started on the East-West divide... I am not sure, which is worse.
Actually you are wrong. High German is indeed what is spoken in the South of Germany, while „Niederdeutsch“ originates in the North.
We just have the unfortunate habit of calling „Standard“ German (actually the dialect of the region around Hannover) „High“ German.
In conclusion:
North: Platt, Niederdeutsch, Friesisch, Sorbisch
South: Schwäbisch, Bayrisch, whatever the Austrians and Swiss do.
Btw: I find it incredibly arrogant and wrong of your parents to immigrate somewhere and still consider themselves superior…
@@lucadreier22 if something is ALWAYS called something, then that is its name. I wasn't speaking in historically linguistic terms, but in colloquial/standard modern usage of words - terms. And the term "hochdeutsch" does make most sense to people, when it is juxtaposed with "niederdeutsch", which is the original regional language/ traditional dialect there. So saying "I am wrong", because people generally use a term incorrectly, but to such an extent that this use has been accepted as the standard use of the term, is ungenerous.
One might have added to my remark by saying this: "acctually Hochdeutsch should be considered misused in its designation as the name for the type of German spoken in Hannover, because originally the meaning of the term has a different origin. "Hochdeutsch" should acctually be used to refer to the German language from regions further south, than those where Niederdeutsch is/was spoken."
(Niederdeutsch=Nethergerman= regional dialect (mostly from regions in Nethersaxony (where Hannover is the state capital)).
I could have worded mine better, too. Especially, because I didn't mean to say Hochdeutsch originated in Hannover, but the term Hochdeutsch was coined as a term for dialects distinct from Niederdeutsch. And since people in Hannover, which is the capital of Nethersaxony, where Nether-German is prominently spoken, speak the "clearest" dialect-free version of German (which is seemingly completely divorced from all Nethergerman surrounding it), it is also considered the capital of "High-German". But in its essence the term "Hochdeutsch"(High German) is used to describe forms of German distinct from Nether-German.
My parents were very much in love with themselves and their own culture and wanted to defend it against new influences. Meaning they didn't want to lose their cultural identity. But they also definitely didn't fancy anything the south had to offer. To them nothing there was a desirable cultural substitute for what they had lost. So, I agree, that is definitely a little arrogant, but also on some level normal. People who leave their ancestral home to go somewhere else usually try to hold on to what they have lost, as much as possible.
But this thinking of something as inferior or superior is only on an individual personal basis. They thought of this cultural influence as undesirable for themselves. They did not think the people around them were "inferior" - they just didn't want to become like them^^, because they held their own cultural origin in very high regard. I think more than any other culture they rejected the idea of cultural change in themselves.
Where they say Apfel is South! :-)
This is the most polite and cultured argument I’ve ever seen. There’s this idea that the British are the most polite people on earth but in my experience it’s not really the case. I’ve had an absolute pleasure conversing with Germans and even “arguing” and it never got vicious. What is it about German people that their arguments are so polite, measured and pragmatic? I want to know! I need answers please
@@opiniotworczyblog5090 I know very little about Germans and their culture, but if I had to guess, I would say that it could be that they are known for being efficient, and getting emotional and throwing insults during a discussion or debate is, from a logical point of view, a counterproductive way to handle things, as it brings no new information to the table, and just introduces noise. Notice that not once did either of them make an attempt at attacking the other, even when it was clear that there was a clash in ideologies, but which was later clarified through an exhaustive description of their experience and points of view, one that I would say most people wouldn't even think to bother typing down, as it could require considerable effort.
2:41 Fun fact. In Italy, we tend to divide the country in four subdivisions: Northern Italy (8 regions: Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige), Central Italy (4 regions: Lazio, Marches, Tuscany and Umbria), Southern Italy (6 regions: Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania and Molise) and Insular Italy (2 regions: Sardinia and Sicily)
You’re in the North if you have more Greggs than Waitrose and vice versa
Everywhere has more greggs. At least were I've been
Will Adams I live in the south and I’ve never been to a Greggs there’s only one in my city
Will Adams My town has two Greggs and one Waitrose
🙄Ha! Mahogany Mahogany 😆
My town centre has 3 greggs all less than a 5 minute walk to each if you were to start from the centre. I live in Barnsley. We have one round the corner from the bus station, one just outside the bus station, and the final one is 2 corners away from the bus station. I am not joking about this
Wales is the forgotten stepchild that lives under the stairs of the UK
Plus we have our own contentious regional divides, though most agree Snowdonia and up is north...
So, Wales will go to Hogwarts?
I Like Turtles he’s English, from Oswestry, not Scottish.
@@scottfriske9186 He is amazing!
@@kanal2123a So Wales will save the muggle and wizarding worlds?
Although there's north island/south island rivalry in NZ, north island folk don't really think about the south island much, whereas the more evenly split sentiment is between Auckland and Northland (north of the Bombay hills) and Everywhere south of the Bombay hills. There's a saying that NZ stops at the Bombay hills, but has opposite meanings depending on which side of the divide you live in.
I also remember talking with someone who had lived in Auckland for a couple years who thought Wellington was in Waikato bc to them, Waikato was just whatever was south of Auckland.
Wait there is south of Bombay hills. I thought we'd just fall off the world. Hahaha
The Bombay border is a paradoxical struggle for Jafas; not believing it's there, yet knowing they have to pass through it for the Boxing Day exodus to the Coromandel.
In Japan, there actually is a East-West cultural divide. It’s also North-South, but it’s mainly described as east and west for some reason. There isn’t so much an economic difference though as far as I know, people in the west are said to be more brash and the east more quiet (or maybe that’s just Osaka and Tokyo), and they eat their food different; like Easterners put onions in their pork cutlet and egg rice bowls while Westerners put green onions on theirs, Westerners hate natto while Easterners love it for example. Though despite being a westerner, I swear I’ve eaten onion (or green onion and onion) pork bowls before and all my family except for me can eat natto just fine.
九州でなっとうたびますよ。
But in Japan, it's easy, you just see where the frequency goes fro 50 to 60 Hz, and from what point on you need to get a new NTT phone contract.
Udon or Soba?
@@aclark903 まあざっくり言うとですよ
I think it's because of the history of Japan. Hokkaido and the north of Honshu only came under Japanese control relatively recently; so before then, Japan was more oriented in an east-west manner.
The midlands: *exist*
Notherners: Is this the South?
Southerners: Is this the North? (mahogany)
I'm from Staffordshire and most of the people I've spoken to say we're North not Midlands. I think it is more a perceived rural indifference to the inner city, in that rural Staffordshire has more in common with rural Yorkshire than Birmingham.
Rich H. I’m from Staffordshire, I also feel more northerly
I live in Derbyshire and i don't even fucking know
I’m from Worcestershire and I feel like I’m a bit more northern but still south
I'm from South Sheffield which is basically the gateway to the north we class chesterfield just below us (7miles ish) as being Midlands even though they very much have the northern mindset and are very much northern Wannabees ... They are Midlands
2:48 “France” shows picture of the two Sudans
Lol
accurate lol
ruclips.net/video/dwmyhoaQCAQ/видео.html
😂😂😂
based and redpilled
In Poland it's more like North-West/South-East divide. Except for Silesia, which is kind of a Schroedinger's region: Depending on who you ask, it's either split in the middle, or North-Western despite most of it being in the south, or its own little country, or a part of Germany.
aren't the North-Western Poland the weird new ones and the South-Eastern the old core Poland?
In Silisia it depends if you ask the true locals, or the resettled Poles from Ukraine that came after WW2, when Polands borders were shifted westward.
@@deutschermichel5807 thing is that whole division doesn't feel really that significant as Poland after WW2 had massive population migrations going on around the country, there was a lot of cultural mix that lead to modern Polish culture being fairly similar to each other most of the time with rather minor differences overall.
And North-Western are often descendants of people who lived in Eastern parts of the country which makes it rather tricky.
Biggest difference is how people describe outsides (dwór versus pole) but aside from it there is not that much going on that field. WW2 really made massive impact on Polish culture that literally vanquished a lot of local uniqueness.
@@andrzejnadgirl2029 thatʼs sad ig. But much of local uniqueness died with WW2, like Germans who used to live in those lands. Such cultures, local mores and customs and regional dialects - all in all diversity, die
Your jokes and the comedic continuity in each of your videos are godly. These are great.
The Norf/Souf divide should be based on the amount of Greggs per capita
True, in Sheffield Centre, you're never more than two minutes walk from a Greggs
Yes. Good.
17 greggs in Newcastle
Couldn't agree more lmao
Try morleys instead. If you keep going up and stop seeing morleys, you are in the north.
Canada uses an east/west split almost exclusively. But that's because only 11 or so people actually live in the north, while the rest of us huddle along the southern border for warmth.
Canada's split is actually pretty easy to explain as well and it's mostly economic and the exceptions to the east west split is basically all economic as well.
BC resembles Ontario more than it does any of it's neighbors because they share similar economics with their access to important trade partners in the US and important water shopping routes.
Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are mostly farm land connected to poor areas of trade in the US. Also oil.
Ontario and Quebec would have nearly identical cultures due to how close they are to important US trade and access to very important water shipping routes but they end up being very different due to historical cultural divides and Ontario and BC end up being more similar even though they are very far apart.
Then the Maritime Provinces all share a common culture due to their heavy reliance on fishing as an industry.
I believe I was told in 10th grade that 90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the borders, so this makes sense.
Here in my province in canada (Alberta)
We have a Northern-Southern Rivalry
@@deutschekanadische so does ontario, but it’s more of a toronto-vs-the-rest-of-the-province rivalry
Ha ha
Was just watching this again, and I found it quite entertaining, as usual! Thanks for the video!
Jay and friend. I love Map men. find that they are interesting enough to rewatch a year later.
This is a criminally undersubscribed channel.
I guess a lot of people started hating him when he endorsed the Green party...
How many subs did this channel have before decline?
It isn't declining. It's growing. Up until April 2015, this channel had under 6000 subscribers. Then it more than doubled by the end of May 2015, (coinciding with the release of "Politics Unboringed").
+Bilton Lawford sorry, I misunderstood it completely. I don't know how I got to the conclusion that the channel had been in decline. I'm really glad to see that these guys are growing at such a fast rate, I really enjoy their content.
I'm American, and I just recently discovered this channel. Maybe they can get a shoutout from someone or be on reddit. These guys definitely should get more views :)
Its not as bad as in germany where it is split like:
-north vs south (sort of)
-west vs east (take a guess why)
-everyone vs bavaria
-and a big 16 state battle royale, everybody hates everybody
i love germany
Indeed
Yes. But everyone except for north germany, can't speak propper german
And that kids is why we need the Kaiser, not a democracy
EVERYONE VS BAVARIA LMAO
Everyone vs Berlin
Finland has both a north/south divide and an east/west divide. It depends on the subject which people usually think about. Culturally, west/east is the pronounced division, but economically it's north/south.
You guys have now got me wanting to visiting Scunthorpe, something I never would have imagined doing before.
it's not worth it, no matter the allure
"we need a geography teacher" - Mark Cooper-Jones, a geography teacher
exactly. I saw from the other video's comments saying that Mark became his/her geography teacher 8 years ago.
we need James V !
@@galaxyllama8930 i agree LOL XD
I’m from wales
@@mariam-hy5jv i love england
2:47 _France_
*Proceeds to show map of Sudan*
so thats why i couldn't find babylon
Not even France claims the Bir Tawil.
Uhh... enclaves!
SuperQuiMan ëíğ
This is a common mistake for people who have been to France, gotten off the plane, looked around at the people, and thought they got laid over in Khartoum.
That was the perfect youtube video essay, fellas. Bravo!
I once read an article on linguistics. Hence, I know there is an imaginary line called "isogloss" in England, which seperates two areas there; native speakers of English living in the south of the line say /ʌ/ and those living in the north say /ʊ/ for 'up, cut, come'. Another imaginary line seperates one area saying /ɑː/ from that saying /æ/ for 'half, bath, grass'. Those English dialects saying /ʊ/ belong to Northern British English, being nicknamed "Oop North".
I think the isogloss line goes through Nottingham depending on whether we say “our ‘ouse “. Or “ar arse”
North of France: the south is only beach and crime
South of France : the north is only rain and consanguinity
Paris: Wait, you're all also French?
Parisians are a breed of their own… the most arrogant people anywhere in the planet. But people from other parts of France are quite nice. Just my opinion.
@@HS-PGX You're not wrong
@@HS-PGX Same thing in Britain with London.
Same can be said for Manilans and the rest of the Philippines.
@@SM-dt1pr Not sure which Londoners you’re meeting but hardly any of us are arrogant about where we live. Don’t let government spending cloud your judgement
In the Middle Ages there were separate taxes for the North and the South. The North paid a tax for “defence against the Scots” and the South was taxed for “defence against the French”. The dividing line was roughly the River Trent. Interestingly, the Trent Valley is also the southernmost extent of the Ice Age glaciers. That’s the line!
Hahahahhahahahah, "the defence against the scots" and "the defence against the french" are the most english reasons ever to tax someone
That was really interesting, cheers!
I'd love to chase you up on that David, but something tells me it'd be fruitless!
There’s a lot of interesting medieval locations along this current line-I saw places like Warwick, bosworth, and Tewksbury
nice. Thanks for the information
1:31 I absolutely LOVE Mark having his eyes closed here
Laughed so much at this. Thank you!
"It would put Sheffield in the South, and that just doesn't feel right"
As someone who lives near Sheffield, I fully agree with this.
AibPresto Official as a guy from the actual north i fully disagree. Sheffield is not in the north
@@tomcourt7888 as a guy from the north , Sheffield is definitely in the North
As a person from Durham, Sheffield is definitely not in the north.
@@PhillipR34 as a guy from the north it is the north
Anything south of Middlesbrough is the midlands
British humor on youtube is so rare. Awesome.
You mean "British humour", of course... :)
Exurb1a, nuff said
Niran And tremendously enjoyable
We leave out the canned laughter so you have to work out when you laugh
It's challenging for some
Daniel Gent but we don't. Porrage is full of it.
Anyway this is shittiest Britainia humor I have ever seen Map Men
I’m a Devonian. The north begins at the river Parrett near Bridgwater and a line goes from there down to Poole. Everything outside of that line is the north. Bournemouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight included.
I am from Sussex and if you look at a globe or map with latitudes you will find we are the most Southern. You are in the West and up from us.
Interestingly as you touched on the Scottish border having geological roots, this north/south line also vaguely follows geological boundaries.
It can be easily measured by the Greggs/Waitrose ratio
Halifax has 5 Gregg's 😂
@@jacobjallen2620 no. Not in Halifax. More like Bath or Harrogate
Greggs out numbers both north and south these days.
I've seen one Waitrose in my life and it was the day I went to London for the first time...I havnt been back to the south since
@@user-tx6lu6nz5r There's one in Otley.
In Canada the lines are simple, there's Quebec, And then there's everyone else
Does that count as an east-west divide? Or is it an east-middle-west divide?
It's more of a west-east-quebec-east divide.
To be fair, they were there before you.
In Alaska it's Anchorage, and then everyone else.
the latter
Love the addition of the Bromwell High theme in there.
I was actually disappointed there was no ad at the end. That's when you know they do a good job at it.
"Mahogany Mahogany" is the best ending to a video I've ever seen.
I know right?
So good.
Not to mention the Coronation Street theme tune.
This has the best ending line: ruclips.net/video/9Jf-8QrHb4M/видео.html
I say!
Canada from West to East be like
Hippies-->Cowboys-->Americans in denial-->France Junior---->Depressed fishermen
Vive le Québec libre !
@@lcem7 bientôt big ;)
Good, but it doesn't really account for Manitoba, does it? I would maybe put "Southernmost Territory" betwixt "Cowboys" and "Americans in denial".
@@AlbertaGeek nobody cares about the Manitoba
@@lcem7 manitoba doesn't count, maple syrup, maple syrup
map men lets goooooo
super stoked
1:32 love the touch of bromwell in there
Anyone who lives north of the Falklands is a Northerner.
True
I think you mean the south sandwich islands
Michael Robinson As an argentinian i'm triggered
is malvines and of Argentina Latin America for latin americans only , ok?
Sheo Shipper Fuck off
“You can tell he did his reasearch because the line is very squiggly indeed.”
I spat out my water when he said that 😂🤣
In Greece it's North vs South (Thessaloniki vs Athens specifically) but there are also rivalries between cities, like Larissa vs Volos, Chania vs Heraklion etc.
The choice to use coro’s theme song as an outro was artistic genius
"Wales doesn't count"
Y'know, sometimes I feel sorry for the Welsh. But then I remember they're Welsh, and I feel even worse for them.
Diolch.
I laughed a hell of a lot more than I should have at that hahaha. Ah well, they'll always have their cheese on toast and castles. I mean Rarebit.
TalesOfWar "Wales" Comes from an old English word meaning foreigner, or slave.
AlwaysRM_ Yes, as in a person who is the property of another person.
I know that... but it means Slave?!?!
We germans had a brilliant solution for this ages ago. Just divide east and west babyyy
They came to this solution after failing with the previous one, attempting to remove the border in general
I believe you outsourced your regional pissings to a bloke names Stalin
You split in to four actually then three then two then 1 you should probably just make your mind up
It wasnt Germany's idea.
@@niko1ndex finally, i found someone who knows how the split happened. Thankyou sir
I live in Stafford though I come from further south. The north begins a few miles up the road - Tittensor. It’s very precise. The weather often changes - you might go into snow there - because of the effect of the Staffordshire Moorlands. Stoke is therefore in the north and I don’t go there (much) whereas I often go from Stafford to Shropshire which is…er….west.
The Swan Inn in Stalham (thanks JW), Norfolk is awesome, btw. Saw it in the pic you showed for it!
Stalham?
@@jamiewilson5679 Yes, been there several times while sailing the Norfolk Broads. Beautiful town.
@@ChickenWings103 the Broads are lovely,I've heard of the pub but never been.👍🙂🔰
I'm from Milton Keynes, and when asked where that is I often say "it's as far north as you can go whilst remaining in the south"
Is that what the concrete cows say also?
Fake town
up the mk, roundabout heaven
Milton Keynes is a uniquely Southern shithole. Driving through it reminds me of the grim little towns around Portsmouth
I'm in Gloucestershire and I like to say I'm the most northern part of the south west
"I live in the Midlands!"
"No you don't."
Superkobster cheers... where do I live then?
@@Hello-yr1ux The North or the South.
Lolol no
@@Hello-yr1ux the nouth
@@hrgrhrhhr things are about to go sorth
North Russia: cold, icy, the people likes the meat jelly and to pronounce words something weird.
Central and South Russia: definitely the same, but a little bit warmer
As a non-Russian who is interested in that country, I found this an interesting north-south divide. Thanks for the info!
Most people drawing the line: Straight line across Britain
That one guy: *_Scotland._*
To people in Scotland, we are all southeners.
Yes, you are.
But Northumbria goes further north than the entire county of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland!
and you're all wildlings, north of the wall.
Dang Southners!!!
@Aqua Cunt I think you mean especially Anglian. Northumbria was an Anglian kingdom stretching from north of the Humber (hence the name) to the Forth.
You may be confusing the Saxons (Germans) with the Angles (Danes).
The Angles are one of the four (five if you include the Viking fringe) ancient peoples of Scotland alongside the Picts (north of the Forth), Scots/Gaels (Argyle & the western seaboard), & Britons (south west Scotland).
That "Bith" joke may be the most British joke since the one about the parrot.
If a British man owned a zebra, he'd name it "spot".
@@TilveranWrites id name it benton
I know a guy from Bath who says it like he's a northerner but he's just from Bath
@@mvnkycheez i know a girl from bath
Can someone explain it to a poor foreigner?
1:32 loved Mark's expression! Never ask the Great British Public anything at all!
Such a good video.
"Ahh Wales doesn't count. Hah, Mahogany Mahogany." - Coronation street theme plays -
I, too, saw the last few seconds of the video.
@@honorarymancunian7433 you just summed up every quote comment on every video ever
Wales does not count as you were discussing England all along. Why you drew Scotland and Wales on your map MapMen is a puzzle indeed. FYI there is a north/south difference in Wales too. Maybe find out about it?
Northern Ireland wants to talk to you
@Meme Review There is an East West divide as well....it starts at Conwy. East is Anglicised and West is most definitely Welsh...Anglesey is very Welsh with lots of Mancs (Manchester born) on the coast
I think that the reason that north-south cultural divisions are so common. Is because climate changes more when you travel north to south rather than east to west. Which creates a greater possibility for people at similiar latitudes to create a more common culture as the similiar climate helps unite them.
Yeah, you're probably right. It doesn't work in countries that are "fat", though, and there are historical reasons for the differences sometimes. Plus the influence of neighbouring countries.
Here in Czechia, it's West vs. East because the eastern part was a separate country in the Middle Ages. In Slovakia, the West was influenced by Czechia while the East had more contacts with Ukraine.
In Germany there's obviously an east/west devide between the original Federal Republic of Germany and the former GDR. We also have a divide based on language. There are three distinct dialect groups going from north to middle to south and at least one of them falsely claim they don't speak with a dialect. Then there's a north/south divide based on geography. Are you closer to the sea or closer to the Alps? And then there's the good old capital/non-capital divide. Nobody likes Berliners (except we're talking about the pastry.) But since for the longest time there was no united Germany, everbody hates everbody, of course.
@@elonmush4793 And Berliners look down upon everyone else. And rightly so, as I may add as a Berliner myself, as everybody else are savages. 😁
Also, LOL at the reference to Hanover 😂
Strange full stop usage.
@@martavdz4972 Yeah, Ukraine also has extremely strong East/West split for historical reasons, with east and south having bigger Russian influence (and notable amount of Russian migration and suppression of Ukrainian language and culture), and West and North having historically stronger Lithuanian/Polish/Austro-Hungarian influence
My new favorite RUclips channel.
you still watch?
Just been watching Portillo's train programme .he was in Kent . The trains were modern , clean and timely , can't wait till he's up north trying out our cattle truck trains
Well excuse ME sir, I am from Chile: Longest country in north-south direction and I have a few things to say.
This is true.
Thanks. Now if you want to see a more elaborated version, we have the driest desert of the planet down here, and that already gives our north a very distinct personality. As you start moving south climate changes, clouds are suddenly a reality, cities become more city-like, traffic jams are real and so on. Suddenly, an invisible line will appear and the "south" begins. Some people say Concepción (where there used to be an indian-spaniard border back in the colonies), others Temuco, others Puerto Montt, where our main highway dies out and boats and planes become more efficient ways of transport because have you seen our geography at the south? Yup.
Anyway, ferns and forests arise, Norway-like fjords fill the landscape and you get to the chilean patagonia and the literal end of civilised world (Antarctica doesn't count). I don't know if you could draw a line and as these brits prove it, it depends on who you ask. But there's definitely a N-S division.
I live in Chile, but isn't Brazil technically longer from north to south?
@@hughbowden5696 it is by like 80 km
'we have the driest desert of the planet down here'
ohhh if only you had said 'driest non-polar desert' or the 'desert with the least precipitation' i wouldn't feel compelled to point out the McMurdo Dry Valleys :(
Icespoon rawa2 as we say in Arabic
Edit: I forgot to put the ic at the end of Arabic
Read in the voice of Jay :D
“Ah, forgot Wales again”
Said parliament
“Wales doesn’t matter”
Said Boris Johnson
That attitude can be applied to everywhere north of Norwich
@@doodlebug4360 can confirm, I’m Scottish.
@@doodlebug4360 ain't that the truth.
@National Socialist So your name is.... National Socialist. I'd take smackheads any day of the week.
@National Socialist andd so is england we cant do any better
The corry theme at the end 💀
2:47
The guy : *says France and proceeds to show Sudan*
*angry welsh comments incoming*
And more than deserved. Along with the angry Scottish comments.
Gareth Williams what an earth is Scotland mad for?
Scotland is mad because they when they drew a map of England they included Scotland when Scotland isn't in England, this also caused problems when they asked the public where they thought the north-south line is because some got confused and drew the Scottish-English border.
Angry Welsh comments coming from where? There is no Wales. Did you not see the map? :)
@@bouncinbetty2032 that or they're just being scottish
As someone who lives in New Zealand, I can't say I've seen much animosity between North and South Islanders. If there's any cultural divide going on, it's Auckland vs Everywhere else.
Are you a north islander? I've seen a fair bit in the south.
But yeah fuck auckland
Well, that’s Auckward
Yeah I agree. Apart from a few racist fringe nutters in the South Island, the main divide is AKL vs everyone
Anything south of the Bombay hills is merely a peasant serf state with the sole purpose of providing their Jafa masters with flat whites and artisanal cheeses.
Wot...there is stuff north of the Bombay Hills ???
I spat out my tea at the VisionOn music. And it's not just countries, but cities too. In Canberra, you've got northside and southside (of Lake Burley Griffin), in London, you've got north (of the Thames) London and sarf Lunnon, Sydney has the North Shore and ... everywhere else except "the Shires"?
0:26 I’ve just realized that this is the same picture of Jay that appears on the thumbnails of some of the older Unfinished London videos
Actually for US, we have west coast vs east coast, while ignoring everything in the middle
Holy T but what about the north south racism divide?
@@luketalbot7253 it generally holds except for this island of non-south around miami that doesn't really belong to a direction
shockedcurve453 well of course there’s exceptions, like with the uk the Isle of Man isn’t in the north or south
I'd argue we divide much more than that. West Coast vs East Coast, the South, the Midwest, the West, and New England
"A man from Colorado drew the line between East and West in the Rockies, a man from Virginia in the Appalachians, and a man from Missouri insisted there's something called the 'Midwest'. Ha ha ha!"
Jay: *says "England"*
Also Jay: *draws map of the UK*
Me:
AAAAAAAAAAAA
*casually just freehand draws the UK though.
He didn't draw Northern Ireland though, so it's just Great Britain.
@@rossmccluney2483 Good point!
I am sorry how late this is but no other part of the UK is there. Just England.@@natj8675
@@superdave186 0:53 I don't know if you are looking at a different part of the video I am, but here he says "England" and I can quite clearly see Scotland and Wales in this drawing.
Upper south, Manchester. I prenounce Cut as "Kutt" and Bath as "Barth"
btw its just lovely you used LBP music in this vid, Two Banks Note
3:11 I've got the joke about Mahogany Mahogany years ago, but realised nobody referred to the joke. Did Jay Foreman have a 5£ bet too, that nobody would notice it in 11 minutes?
Mahogany mahogany.
Ama namna gani my fren
Mahogany mahogany
Soft bloody southerners
@@ErwinPommel at least we have friends
The wind is your only friend.
Good call on avoiding Ireland what talking about other country’s north south divide 😂
Korea is slightly worse.
That's because they're two different countries
Two Englishmen talking about the Irish divide... Oh boy I can already imagine where we'd be headed.
I mean, the Republic of ireland has an East West split
Yeah but like Wales Ireland doesn't count! 😂😉
1:53
they are right
i went to cornwall and on the first time of going there it showed 'the midlands' somewhere around halfway through our destination
1:45 I lost it 🤣
2:49
"France.."
*Shows Sudan and South Sudan*
Close enough
As a Sudanese I've never knew I was French 🤣
Why........
wait I just realise something..
It's not wrong though. France is fast becoming Sudan.
Jay: Bith
Me: I diagnose you with Kiwi
yis, thet's abeout ruight
Nope, kiwi is closer to buth.
But north or south island??
As a Kiwi, I pronounce it like /'bæːf/ (barf) when I'm speaking quickly (ginna havva barf = gonna have a bath). If I try to pronounce it properly, it sounds like you'd expect; /'baːθ/ (barth)
Mep Men
2:50 I like how it just circles around us in Australia and New Zealand
Omg…so funny…I’m hooked!
"Am I a northerner or a southerner?"
"That's easy, how do you pronounce this word?"
_shows word bath_
"Biv!"
"You're not a southerner, you're a South African!"
well then, how do you pronounce bathing
baafing? haahaha, keep doing that, i like it
You actually say it bbbbbth
i mean, that's still not the north
Your point being? That’s still a kind of southerner, is it not
In not from north of south I’m from the midlands
In germany we have "Aldi Nord" and "Aldi Süd" and thats all we need
Germany is also a great example of an East - West divide, though it's thankfully disappearing
Germany has a east-west-divide for historical reasons. The western part has a north-south-divide for cultural/mentality reasons.
DAS HEISST HOFER!!!
Marc Exner You'd see that Bavaria and Baden-Würtemberg have very different identities to other Germans, with different dialects as well as the fact that these were the areas Catholicism was pretty much present even after the Reformation.
@@dorthusiast Uhm... northern Bavaria - not catholic at all. But Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, NRW - very catholic. And different dialects are to be found kinda everywhere ;) I guess the main difference is between parts that used to be Prussia and those who weren't.
Here in Germany we have both an east/west and a north/south divide.
You can pretty much divide Germany into north-west, north-east and south Germany and actually observe different cultures.
Especially the south is vastly different to the northern parts.
Would that be essentially Prussia, Saxony and Bavaria?
johnnye87 not really
@Muddykip 13 The US can be divided every which way like 50 times. They are called states.
Germany is best divided into NE, NW and the good part.
Well we all know who to blame for the East-West divide..or do we? I suppose it depends on who you blame for the lack of a united Germany. Some will blame the USA, some the USSR (considering it doesn’t exist anymore it’s way easier to blame the Soviets).
when they were asking the public they had massive microphones but they didn't record the audio lol
1:56
“What we need is a geography teacher.”
MARK YOU SAID YOU WERE A GEOGRAPHY TEACHER IN THE HEATHROW VIDEO
Im not seeing enough people recognise just how god damn funny the final 10 seconds are. The camera move. The dismissal of wales. The Corrie theme. Its like comedic art in motion.
I’m from the midlands
To the southerners I’m a northerner. To the northerners I’m Switzerland :p
I'm from the Midlands too...but up in the far north - Darlington - I was called a Southerner.
@@simonh6371 No, you have your dinner at miday so you're a northerner.
@@davew4998 Actually mate it depends on what class you are in, or think you are. My Grandparents on one side had dinner at midday and tea at 5:30 on the dot, we had lunch and dinner at home. I now have lunch and dinner too. Because we're neither Southerners nor Northerners, we're Midlanders. Look on the map, even without Scotland if you draw a line across halfway up, it's North of the Midlands.
@@simonh6371 I was only teasing. My roots are cockney and we always had our dinner at lunch time too.
I’m from Lincolnshire, equidistant from Newark and lincoln, which would appear to put me smack dab in the middle... I always felt Newark was posher than Lincoln so now I’m confused... I like to think I’m northern... my friends from further south certainly do anyway but my friends from the north say I’m southern It really does seem that no one acknowledges the midlands...
Bring up a map of all the Waitroses’ in the UK and you’ll see the north-south divide 😂
Apparently to be fair to Waitrose they do only have ONE large distribution centre in England (Bracknell in Berkshire.....which is in the south); as opposed to much bigger rivals like Tesco, and Sainsbury's who both have several large distribution centres serving different parts of England, and wider UK.
You could say Waitrose have stayed true to their origins which lie in the south, but the fact that they are a 'Partnership' which means that every single Waitrose employee has a stake in the business might have something to do with it. The other supermarkets are all Public Limited Companies (Plc's).
Waitrose has an entirely different business model from any other British supermarket chain. If this hasn't been persuasive enough then I don't know. Ask the Head of Waitrose why they don't have stores in Sheffleld or Newcastle!! I think there may be one or two in Nottingham (which is about the farthest north Waitrose stores are).
@@robtyman4281 that's bollocks haha there's at least 2 in Newcastle which I can think of just from the top of my head
@@jakehill2603 I'm just stating the facts about Waitrose - I know as I used to work for them. I'm not disputing that there are no Waitroses' in Newcastle, but there aren't as many in the North because they have one central warehouse.
@@robtyman4281 there are definitely branches of Waitrose in Newcastle. There's also at least one further north in Northumberland. They're a lot more geographically spread than they used to be.
@@robtyman4281, surely the Co-op is also not a PLC?
I deeply appreciate the use of Left Bank 2.
It splits on a roundabout in Minworth, which is the centre point of the country.
Well done for avoiding the Ireland North South split!
*bad craic
Don't even go there! That's coming real again next year
Jack Francis well that's also an international border so it's not really a north south split as Ireland isn't part of the UK and Northern Ireland is. It's kinda like saying that Alaska and Canada have a east/west split. It's kinda misleading
Ohhh! I know this historical origins of this one! The concept of the "North-South divide" goes back to the Anglo Saxon heptarchy. In that seven kingdom system Mercia was considered the most northern kingdom in the "South" (Mercia literally means "border people" ) , which makes the River Humber - being Mercia's northern boundary - the dividing "line." And who said a degree in Anglo Saxon literature was useless?! 😂
This 81yr old Lancashire lass (pre 197Os Merseyside) Part of Cheshire in Domesday survey. Maeres-ea, AS. boundary river. Between Mercia and Kingdom of Northumbria, which Kingdom was part of the Danelaw pre 1000
Are there any coconuts in Mercia? Asking for a friend.
That's one of the possible explanations, but it's entirely possible that the anglo-saxons borrowed the concept to the previous political entities of the island, with Lloegyr vs Cymry, or even the Romans.
Hah! Nerd!
@@Ezullof Oh sweet, didnt know that! As far as I'm aware the Saxons have the oldest written account of the N/S divide but wouldn't surprise me at all if the idea was nicked from an earlier group whose records got lost/relied on oral traditions. Damn, I love history
0:55 that was more accurate than my freehand drawing
My parents lived right by the A5 Watling Street in Northamptonshire and always said this was the agreed truce line between the Danes in the North and the Anglo Saxons in the South
I'm a big fan of your map of France :D
lol, I thought it looked a bit funny
They said France and showed a map of Sudan
Adam Anderson Great, sarcasm
Had to scroll way too far to find this comment :D
They're subjects of UK they have to hate the French for cheating on them with the Austrians why do you think U.S and Canada live with their mum U.K instead of that tosser France
Being French I can tell you there is also an East/West divide as in "I'm near the Ocean" vs "I'm near the mountains" kinda spirit. And we do have a centre. In like there is literally a French region called "Centre". Yes, it is a depressing region.
We also have an area the geographers pedantly call "la diagonale du vide" aka "the emptiness diagonal" it goes from North East to South West France and has very little population encompassing a bunch counties we like to jokingly describe as having more cows than inhabitants. Though they may literally have more cows than inhabitants. We're not sure, too few people living there to count all the cows.
30yrs ago went to Bretagne. Parc D'Amorique, Pleyben, stayed in old stone house Leur Vihan, Brasparts hardly saw anyone had to practise my French, liked it because was not mainstream French. J'ecoute la chasse des sangliers 🕊️
They might actually have more cows than people. Livestock operations can be very large. I don't know how much livestock there is in France, but you may have heard that Australia, New Zealand, and even Ireland have more sheep than people.