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No arguments about that here, but the original statement was that other European countries aren't divided in the same way as Italy, where the history of Europe in the early 20th C is of culturally diverse regions being united by force into homogenous 'nations', with a recoil in the late 20th against the homogenisation.

Did I mention the cultural divide between 'mainland' Denmark & Copenhagen?

No, neither did you mention the difference between the Flemish and the Waloons, Frysians and the Hollanders...