Monday, November 27th, 2006
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 16,654
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Re: A turn of the wheel in Scotland
I don't think that they are more or less independentist. Most likely they are lost and don't know in which direction to move. Also, think that there are many English immigrants in Scotland.
The English will have a hard time to rebuild their identity. They lost it to Britain. Welsh and Scots have preserved theirs to much an extent in spite of the British union. Not to mention the Irish. But in the attempt to suffocate the other identities, the English put all of their emphasis in being British and it is them who lost their identity in the process.
Notice that this is not the only drawback of the British identity construct. They also promoted the identification of the subjects of their former empire with being British. You may think of British as an early multicultural term.
Isn't it a cruel irony that a party which vows to maintain their identity is called British National? I would say that it is retarded but if it is their wish I am willing to lend them more rope, providing that they don't drag others with them.
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prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
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–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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