But they don't. The cultures are becoming the same and they are dominated by the media. In my very short 61 years, I have seen enormous changes in the everyday culture of everyday people. So much has been lost and a few "folk customs" preserved as phoney folk fossils. Even the local accents are going - no one in my home county under 80 has the slightest trace of an Essex accent. The youngsters sound more like Australian soap stars. Perhaps that doesn't matter at all - or perhaps it does.