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Originally Posted by Jammin
Can someone explain how when England, Scotland, Wales and NI are all considered countries, the UK is also considered a country...? :confused1:
It's terrible on my part, but I learned from Braveheart that the Scots don't like to be associated with England or maybe even Britain, so how is it all working out these days? Is there some dissent? I hear there's some breakaway rumors...
So everyone in the UK is considered British first, then they're either English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish, right? But I guess the Scots done like to be called British, right? How do the passports work? Does everyone get a UK passport?
I love history and I'm definitely going to be reading up a lot about how the UK came to be and I figured I should know more about the British Empire, since it directly influenced life in India and the rest of the world for better or for worse.
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You're correct - all of us are British, but English people have the habit of referring to the UK as England. Since the time of Thatcher, much resentment was caused in Scotland by her government's anti Scottish policies, leaving us all now with a drift away from the the UK. "Britain", as you say, means also the "UK." And with any smaller country adjacent to a larger one, you tend to get people being assertive about their culture etc. Scotland has 5 million to England's 60.
All have the same passport, a British or UK passport.
Braveheart, I'm sorry to say, is Tartan Hollywood, portraying the "evil" English, and the "brave" Highlanders. It follows the cliches of a Western movie. None of this is accurate.
Incidentally, Scotland holds two main cultures - the Highland area - initially Gaelic speaking, and Lowland Scotland, which always spoke what we now call English (Northern English) since varieties of that language formed in these islands. The Scots were historically hostile to the Highlanders, and were part of the army which routed them at Culloden. Scots kings passed a number of laws against Highlanders.
After the Highlanders were defeated, many emigrated to, for example, the US, or Australia, where they inflicted the same horrors on Native Americans or Aborigines, that were inflicted on them.
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