It’s a tiny ass island yet whenever a British person hears another British person they’ll be like “Oi guvenor! I know exactly where in Merry-ol-England they are from! Clearly they’re from Bovinshire-upon-Weavilton!” And Bovinshire-upon-Weavilton is a town like 10 minutes away from where they live.
Nah, I think that’s how people are. The French had a nationalist unifying project where they obliterated a large amount of variation, and settler colonies (by virtue of a bunch of people coming together to occupy land) also have less variation than most other places.
It’s just the english speaking world is mostly settler colonies that it seems weird to us.
(I don’t like nationalism very much)