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Originally Posted by ZombieDrone

It's one of these things in international geography.

I've always thought that Australians and New Zealanders always got along well (after all, you have things like ANZAC).

But it's hardly a unique situation around the world.

India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have always had tensions, partly on religious grounds.

On the other hand, you've got Germany and Austria who have always been very close in terms of relations.

In Britain we have a complicated relationship with the Irish. In the general public, there's little bad blood (at least in Britain, there isn't much overt anti-Irish sentiment) but it runs through Ireland being subject to Britain for some 800 years.

Of course, Northern Ireland is still part of Britain (it's mostly protestant like the rest of Britain unlikely mainly Catholic Ireland, which has been part of how Northern Ireland, when it was Ulster, remained allied to Britain during the war of independence)

Of course, now Northern Ireland has a deep history of civil unrest and terroism because of the division between the people between relations between Britain and Ireland.

Closer to home I find a lot of hate for people from Manchester in Liverpool obviously this is football related but it's growing. Having also lived in Manchester I never had any problem being from Liverpool while I was there but having been there a lot recently it;s back with a vengeance. Even weirder I find more hassle in Liverpool if you don't have a strong "scouse" accent. I get grief all the time even though I grew up here and most of people I know who grew up here don't have strong accents either. It's ridiculous but people seriously think I'm lying when I tell them I grew up in Toxteth despite my parents living there and I know a lot of people there from growing up around them. People seem to be think I'm lying to try and seem "cool" but I find this inverted snobbery ridiculous nonesense. In fact most people put on fake accents a la Cilla Black just so they don't get the grief I get. Ironically whenever I go to Manchester or anywhere outside of Merseyside people think I have a strong scouse accent just talking the same way I do here. In fact I think this inverted snobbery is worse than normal snobbery because these people pride themselves on being down to earth-wrong they are as stuck up their own asses as the rich and privileged-but they are too stupid to realise that.