Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Re: The Northern-Southern Italian divide [split]
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Originally Posted by Youenn
Even today despite the frenchization, there are termes to define people, "nordiste" and "sudiste". When I worked a short time near to Narbonna, a Catalan co-worker called me "le nordique". Another friend of mine, half-Gascon half-Corsican, called me "le nordiste".
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Funnily enough, that must have been because they sensed you as "French" (or Oïl French). Not because they sensed you as Breton.
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On contrary, I never saw or heard a division of the french hexagon based on the west and east, it's quite unrealistic.
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Because that's specific of Italy. FYI, the South there still retains much of the source of its identity either from the Magna Graecia or from Byzantium, or both.
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