tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11135493.post-11383589629753475472008-03-23T20:38:00.000Z2008-03-23T20:38:00.000ZDoesn't (the modern re-writing of)Scottish history contain an inference that the act of Union between Scotland and England was an act of force?<BR/><BR/>I read recently that ethnic minorities were happy to accept racial abuse in Scotland because they perceived the Scots as a race of people subjucated by the Imperial agressors, like their own. Ironic, as Scot's colonists were some of the harshest inflictors of salvery.<BR/><BR/>The point is, the islands of Orkney were handed to the Scots without any consulation with the peoples of those islands.<BR/><BR/>Whether it was doen by force or not, it was done in a way in which the people had no say. And those people, to this day, consider themselves Orcadians first and Scots second, in the same way the Scots consider themselves British second (and resent the English for some reason).<BR/><BR/>The truth is, Scotland was a bit like Northern Rock today - in a bit of financial bother and the Bank of England rescued it.<BR/><BR/>My Braveheart point is - Scots like to see themselves as this put upon people struggling against the big bully boy England, ignoring the fact they are bullies themselves.Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13905592870063005287noreply@blogger.com