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Article: Virtual rivalries ; Trash talk among communities goes online, where people live up to - or live down - stereotypes
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2009
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H owever unfair it may be, the stereotype of Scituate being a
town where people like to raise a glass is nothing new.
It's a place where people "drink, and have a fishing problem,"
mocks one anonymous poster on the online Urban Dictionary.
Hingham, on the other hand, is dismissed as a town "dominated by
soccer moms wearing pink, yellow, and lime green" - a reference to
the corporate headquarters of wealthy women's clothier Talbots Inc.,
located in town.
Town rivalries haven't faded away, they've gone virtual.
Now that every dot on a map is also an address in cyberspace, in
a few clicks the world is at our doorstep. But old tensions and
rivalries - mostly based on wealth, sports, or a ...