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Peter Flbutt

I'd say that we have both very isolated suburbs and very social suburbs - and everything in between. Even around the same city, and that part does generalize... well, not sure about all the rest of Europe, but at least on the country level.

Duh, some suburbs are more distinguishable than their parent cities, and have been so for at least a century now.

Not a new phenomenon, right -- but it's visitors and usually part of the essential character. And do note that in many cases the national borders aren't all that clearly evident there.

Some have been saying that the national-level idenbreasties are clearly fading but ethnic-level idenbreasties have been strengthening... where the ethnic level is clearly smaller scale than national level, almost "tribal level", heh.

Well, there's certainly been a lot more local-dialect literature around lately...

Duh, in the old days the pan-European culture was for the nobility and politicians, upper-clbutt merchants, academics and occasionally engineers and artists. I don't see this having changed much except that we now have business management instead of nobility. (Some of the people in that bracket are still the same, though...)

This may be because the average citizen doesn't necessarily feel the need to socialize outside their own group, be it either a professional, ethnical or geographical group or whatever, but for the aforementioned groups there are significant incentives there, financial or, well, whatever it is that drives artists ... or politicians.

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