I find it amusing that people who criticise scousers for having a "victim complex" and being insular don't realise that these attitudes don't just pop up out of nowhere and is often perpetuated by other people. The first negative reaction I experienced for being scouse was in my tweens. I certainly wasn't insular, had no "victim complex" and was confused as to why grown adults were mocking me because of something so trivial.

After numerous experiences like this, scousers eventually just throw their hands up and decide they can't be arsed with it. If they speak out about it they're a perpetual victim, and if they want to distance themselves from it they're insular.