The English and Scottish People

[Fuathas]

Personally, I'd never give a damn what country and culture the other hails from, as long as he/she let's me be in ma Scottish ways.

[Ged]

More and more people in the North of England no longer consider themselves to be of English nationality... more and more ENGLISH citizens in Cornwall (Kernow) consider themselves to be of Cornish nationality and not English. It is us the English who are losing our identity as English

Yeah, I'll agree with that, the country is falling apart, can't say I'm too displeased either, I'm English & I hardly like the country myself.


As for English walking around Scotland in a constant state of terror I have to say I strongly disagree. I found almost all of the Scottish people I meet when I'm up there generally nice, helpful and cheery people. If anything I'd say most English people feel more relaxed and at home in Scotland.

I'm sure there have been one or two attacks on the English from racial hate, but you can't blame Scots for that it's just one or two people. A bl;ack teen was killed not too far form where I live the other day by white teens, they embedded a large axe into his skull. I'm sure 99% of the country finds this disgusting, but you have the few arsehole nationalists that think it was good and acceptable, if a Scot proclaimed that all the English were racist murderers you'd be pretty upset wouldn't you? Yes you would, so why place all Scots under one label? I think you've seen Braveheart too many times mate.

[anSiarach]

Anti-English racism is quite widespread across Scotland in my experience. Thats not to say that it is a violent endemic but mild anglophobia is quite common and i suffered it on occasion myself as a schoolkid as a result of having an english surname and english-accented father.

[Sire-Chris]

Originally Posted by English_Pride

More and more people in the North of England no longer consider themselves to be of English nationality... .

I couldn't help but laugh at this suggestion. This is twaddle. Utter twaddle. I have lived and travelled about the north of england all of my life and have never even heard of anyone who does not consider themselves english. The number of people who represent our footie or cricket team at a national level who come from the north just proves that.

You're just embarrassing yourself to be honest. Whilst in Cornwall I saw their flag just about everywhere but I did not get the impression that the country was just about bursting to get out of england. There is a small nationalism movement there but cornwall relies largely upon the rest of the country to keep going and would be mad to leave us.

[Tartan Paint]

Originally Posted by anSiarach

Anti-English racism is quite widespread across Scotland in my experience. Thats not to say that it is a violent endemic but mild anglophobia is quite common and i suffered it on occasion myself as a schoolkid as a result of having an english surname and english-accented father.

Well i hope you feel better having got it off your chest. An Englishman once called me a "racist jock bigot" for using the word "Sassenach" which means Englishman. When i told him what it meant he was humble and was man enough to apologise. "Sorry i'm never sure what you Jocks are talking about". I don't believe he was a racist bigot as i honestly believe he didn't realise he was being offensive. But somewhere further down his family tree i suspect things might have been a wee bit different.

[Tartan Paint]

All very touching. Now back in the real world



Welcome aboard.

[Polwarth]

Goodness, TP - you're talking to thin air..... 'her' posts have been removed. Dizzit no mek you feel a haufwit talking tae yersel? Ah ken it diz me

(Don't you HATE it when people post and then remove their posts when they see the reaction it provokes?)