o/ Does the region you were born in have any bearing on your character?

[the_idiotb_stardson]

Just watching all the Cornish people being interviewed after the flash flood last night.

Loads of comments along these lines:

" we will roll up our sleeves and get on with it. That's what Cornish people do"

" Cornish people are tough, it won't get us down"

" Cornish people pull together in a crisis"

Thing is the people of any town affected by a flood come out with the same comments and ascribe their toughness, and coping strategies to the region they live in.

I'll be honest this has started to pi ss me off big time. Does the place we were born and raised have any bearing on our qualities?

Are people more courageous in Cornwall?

I think it's a load of boll locks.

[animallittle3]

Most communities pull together in times of crisis as we've seen with the Grenfell Tower tragedy in west london , cornwall as you have mentioned and Manchester after the bombing a few weeks back .

[CAMiller]

Same all over the world, most pull together to help their neighbours out in times of trouble while a select few pop round and loot their houses

[millmoormagic]

I agree with the replies on here, the upshot is, that by and large humans will help their neighbours in times of need, to a point, as there's always exceptions to that rule.

[Acido]

I agree with the replies on here, the upshot is, that by and large humans will help their neighbours in times of need, to a point, as there's always exceptions to that rule.

I agree its a ridiculous statement to make but we hear it all the time,
In a time of crisis the local people suggest they are better at dealing with it than anybody else, anywhere else in the country.
And if they don't mean that, it certainly comes across that way.

[leedsmiller]

According to this board, those from Barnsley, Doncaster and Sheffield certainly have some unique characteristics

[Acido]

According to this board, those from Barnsley, Doncaster and Sheffield certainly have some unique characteristics

Well Im ok then kid, because Im NOT from any of those South Yorkshire places.

[Lasterman]

I've always thought people from Liverpool have some fairly unique qualities

[Slimchance]

Yes, the people from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have a strong urge for blowing themselves up.

[the_idiotb_stardson]

This thread has started to fill me with existential angst about my role as a supporter of the Millers.

If we are saying that all regions are basically the same and there are no defining qualities about the town or region we live in, how can we be proud of our town or our football team?

Isn't it just a delusion to think we are anyway better than our neighbours from Sheffield, Doncaster or Leeds?

If the defining qualities of human beings is not region specific then local pride is utterly meaningless.

Maybe we should, after acknowledging this fact, watch football in a new spirit. Rather than goading our rivals, who we have now established are no different to us, why don't we applaud skill from the opposition team and stop antagonising rival supporters, who we have now admitted are exactly the same as us. Extrapolating on this even further we can also say that winning and losing is also meaningless.

If we continue base our support on local pride, we are supporting something we don't really believe is true.