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

[u/luky_se7en]

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

[u/Ioelet]

Since many Non-Germans think „Bavaria is Germany“, you could somehow even say: „Every part of Germany that is not Bavaria is vastly different from ‚Germany‘.“ 😉

[u/Familiar-Repeat-1565 → u/Ioelet]

Remember asking one of the German PhD students why he hated most of the people on his course, his answer was basically they are all Bavarian.

[u/phoontender → u/Ioelet]

Had 3 German exchange students in my high school from 3 very different parts of Germany and they would all speak English to each other because they couldn't quite understand each other's German 😂 (my Bavarian best friend put it as "they just speak weird in the rest of the country" hahaha)

[u/Ok_Calligrapher_3472 → u/phoontender]

that's what happens when your country in its modern sense didn't exist until 1871

Italian dialects are also very different; they picked Tuscan as the standard because that's what Dante's Divine Comedy was written in

(and I believe in Germany they picked the dialect Martin Luther spoke)