[kool maudit]

There are some people whose personal idiosyncrasies will be apparent no matter what their background. Other people default to their ambient culture. In smaller towns, this culture can be more local. In the metropoli, it is that of the media and commercial networks and their great engines of narrative.

For this reason, metropolitans can sometimes seem more homogeneous than their country-mouse cousins. We have all remarked on how well your average, say, Berliner fits into a place like Toronto or San Francisco or even Buenos Aires. This is less true if you pick smaller towns from each of these countries.

(I was in Esbjerg a while back and it was a very 'holy fuck I totally live in Denmark' sort of thing. In Copenhagen this is very muted.)