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The north-south divideIf one looks at living standards and expectations in recent years, they clearly show that the south east, south, south west, East Anglia and the East Midlands tend to do much better than the peripheral areas. Over a century ago, the novelist Mrs Gaskell wrote a book entitled North and South, about a heroine from a soft southern village forced to move to the fictitious county of Darkshire, who confessed 'a detestation for all she had ever heard of the north of England, the manufacturers, the people, the wild and bleak country'. Mutual prejudice between a complacent population in the south and a proud but aggrieved one in the north persists. Precisely where the dividing line between north and south runs is a matter of opinion, but probably few would argue with a line from the Humber across to the Severn Estuary (the border between South Wales and England).
II. Identity and Stereotypes 1. Brain storming:
2. PROJECT WORK: Identities and attitudes:
SOURSES: 1. Britain (the country and its people: an introduction for learners of English), James O’Driscoll, Oxford University Press, chapters 1, 4, 5 Date: 2016-03-03; view: 1443 |