if I could hang your hat on one kind of Southern distinctiveness, perhaps above all it's fun to play with all these stereotypes and realize that if so many people were writing this way, from personal observation, yes, there must be something to all these differences.

如果我们现在好好思考一下南方的特点,也许首先,让我们想想所有关于南方的陈见,不难意识到,如果那么多人通过个人观察,写出的南方都大同小异,那么这些南方特点一定有其根源

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