Re: Celtic mentality
I have to agree with Glastone in that it is a strong manifestation of identity which works towards preservation, although in the case of the Scots one must not forget that this manifestation of their identity appears as a form of Irredentism in oposition to a different nation, England.
Something similar to what Nominoë posts occurs in the Spains. We have our different territorial identities strongly marked. It happened to me in the last months while I was in the Canary Islands. A new vigilant of the boatyard came to me and said that he had heared that I was Valencian. Then he smiled and said to me that basically we were from the same place. It didn't look to me as if he was right, so I asked what he meant. He said that he was from La Mancha (aka New Castile) and that he had lived in Valencia and had family there. Not quite the same thing, I told him. Geographically close but not quite the same..
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