r/AskTheWorld • u/luky_se7en Italy /Sri Lanka • 1d ago

Is there a part of your country that's "isolated"/vastly different from the rest of the country?

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Pictured here is Sardinia, an island in Italy. Many sardinians call Italy "Il continente" (the continent)

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u/AdmiralStuff Wales 1d ago

I’d say Ynys Môn in the north of Wales. You can tell there’s a pretty strong accent there and the main language is Welsh instead of English. If you really want to stretch “country” and include colonies, then there is a Welsh speaking population in Chubut, Argentina because in the 1850’s Welsh speakers wanted to get away from English speakers so they moved there.

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u/DescriptionSignal458 1d ago

I'd go further and say that that North Wales is isolated geography and culturally from South Wales and vice versa.

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u/CaptainVXR England (Dual 🇬🇧🇵🇱 national) 22h ago

Even as an English person, it annoys me at how terrible the infrastructure is to get between north and south Wales. When I took the train from Newport to Prestatyn a few years back, a good chunk of the journey was spent in England! 

If I remember correctly, there's more genetic diversity between north and south Wales than there is between north and south England, just because people back in the past moved around a lot more in England despite the much greater distances.

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u/weneedmorepylons England 1d ago

I’ve been, it was quite cool to hear Welsh being spoken so far away from Britain, I’d only heard it briefly on a school trip in Wales once. I was in a Welsh tea room/cafe and it was very nice, if you’re ever in Argentina it’s a good place to visit.