I do want to add a little more though. For us Scots we are caught between histories. Some are aware of what we gained under this Union but we are also aware of how those 'famed Scottish regiments' who went in first were sent in first to either win or die because no one would care. The Union was formed because the rich here tried to create and Empire, failed, lost all their money and got desperate. In return England tried to eradicate our culture, much like it did in the places it went on to colonise. The fact that we stopped them doing so despite their bans on so many things is a part of pride. So it is not as much where we were born but the past we have?
We are so welcoming of anyone who wants to come here. Come here, live here, ok you're Scottish. We'll fight anyone who says different and that includes border force. That fuels a fire to get our independence as others nations did.
So, we have that pride you don't like but we are not unwelcoming of anyone else? I would like to think that makes us unique.
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Date: 2017-06-24 09:35 pm (UTC)I do want to add a little more though. For us Scots we are caught between histories. Some are aware of what we gained under this Union but we are also aware of how those 'famed Scottish regiments' who went in first were sent in first to either win or die because no one would care. The Union was formed because the rich here tried to create and Empire, failed, lost all their money and got desperate. In return England tried to eradicate our culture, much like it did in the places it went on to colonise. The fact that we stopped them doing so despite their bans on so many things is a part of pride. So it is not as much where we were born but the past we have?
We are so welcoming of anyone who wants to come here. Come here, live here, ok you're Scottish. We'll fight anyone who says different and that includes border force. That fuels a fire to get our independence as others nations did.
So, we have that pride you don't like but we are not unwelcoming of anyone else? I would like to think that makes us unique.