Just today I heard someone in European Parliament saying 'the British don't like harmonisation and cooperation, they like the opposite, competition', and things like 'the British are emotionally repressed and cold' or 'the British think that friendliness and openness as lower class/ a deficiency'
'The British fear social contact and won't speak to people they see every day at the busstop'.
These are ALL southern english traits (in fact Northern French origin) that are undone by the friendlier, more open, elless fearful, less odd internationally Scots, northern Irish, northern English and welsh...
At least that's what I think AIBU?