*they are going to be neighbours whether they get on or not
*it's in both countries' interests that they do get on
*both countries have a lot in common, such as shared language and culture, which means they *will find it easy to co-operate should they choose to do so
*all the above points are obvious to everyone
That may well be, but the fact that something is obviously against their best interest hasn't kept Westminster from doing it so far... neither has the fact that somethingis blatantly obvious kept them from ignoring it....
I certainly do not agree that we share a language and a culture.
Scotland's languages, both Scots and Gaelic, have been systematically denigrarted and suppressed by the English Establishment from the days of the Union when London papers printed insulting comments (Boris Johnson's reprinting of the poem about 'a verminous race' is a relatively modern example in the same vein) and an Education Act in the1870s decreed that all education in Scotland shall be conducted in English - the reason why generations of children with Scots or Gaelic as their mother tongue were belted for using these languages at school.
Scottish culture, so often expressed in one or other of our languages has been ignored by the Anglophone hegemony imported to hold the top positions in our suciety, dominating business, civil service, education (particularly univewrsities) and cultural insitutions such as museums, galleries and organisations like the BBC. No-one challemges a theatre direcor imported from England for their lack of knowledge of the Scots language or our theatrical tradition.
No wonder many of our people suffer from a Scottish cringe having been told throughout their lives that their language is inferior and their culture wothless compared with Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Edward Elgar.
*Scotland and rUK share an island
*they are going to be neighbours whether they get on or not
*it's in both countries' interests that they do get on
*both countries have a lot in common, such as shared language and culture, which means they *will find it easy to co-operate should they choose to do so
*all the above points are obvious to everyone
That may well be, but the fact that something is obviously against their best interest hasn't kept Westminster from doing it so far... neither has the fact that somethingis blatantly obvious kept them from ignoring it....
I certainly do not agree that we share a language and a culture.
Scotland's languages, both Scots and Gaelic, have been systematically denigrarted and suppressed by the English Establishment from the days of the Union when London papers printed insulting comments (Boris Johnson's reprinting of the poem about 'a verminous race' is a relatively modern example in the same vein) and an Education Act in the1870s decreed that all education in Scotland shall be conducted in English - the reason why generations of children with Scots or Gaelic as their mother tongue were belted for using these languages at school.
Scottish culture, so often expressed in one or other of our languages has been ignored by the Anglophone hegemony imported to hold the top positions in our suciety, dominating business, civil service, education (particularly univewrsities) and cultural insitutions such as museums, galleries and organisations like the BBC. No-one challemges a theatre direcor imported from England for their lack of knowledge of the Scots language or our theatrical tradition.
No wonder many of our people suffer from a Scottish cringe having been told throughout their lives that their language is inferior and their culture wothless compared with Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Edward Elgar.
The bullet points are quotes from the original article.
Sorry, my comment was not intended to refer to yours but to a pont kade in the original article.
This is my first time looking at this website so perhaps I got ot wrong in doing a reply rather than a separate comment. I apologise.