I wasn't comfortable with the article myself. I'll admit before I came up to Scotland I thought of myself as English. Afterwards I preferred to think of myself as British as there is quite a lot of hatred in certain areas for English people
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God, that second-last paragraph really sounds like Ireland. /cue ramble/ Problem here with Republicanism is that it's appropriated by people as an excuse to hate. You get taught all the awful shit that's happened here, all the colonialism and oppression, and the temptation to just boil it down to 'the bloody English' is incredibly strong. There's no incentive to question that. Bullshit rebel songs, the whole (fucking inaccurate, thanks a lot Patrick bloody Pearse) '800 years' thing, and the fact that our national anthem is all about killing the Saxon foe... well, it hardly helps international relations. Completely hypocritically, though, the same people who're getting their bollix in knots about the Queen's visit are the same eejits who fangirled the Royal Wedding a couple of weeks back. It's a sort of pathetic combination of simpering dumped-colony-itis and thoughtless hate dressed up in 'Republicanism'.
So yeah, I don't know if you get the same thing in Scotland or what? *slightly embarrassed at irrelevant ramblings*
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Problem here with Republicanism is that it's appropriated by people as an excuse to hate. You get taught all the awful shit that's happened here, all the colonialism and oppression, and the temptation to just boil it down to 'the bloody English' is incredibly strong. There's no incentive to question that. Bullshit rebel songs, the whole (fucking inaccurate, thanks a lot Patrick bloody Pearse) '800 years' thing, and the fact that our national anthem is all about killing the Saxon foe... well, it hardly helps international relations.
Completely hypocritically, though, the same people who're getting their bollix in knots about the Queen's visit are the same eejits who fangirled the Royal Wedding a couple of weeks back. It's a sort of pathetic combination of simpering dumped-colony-itis and thoughtless hate dressed up in 'Republicanism'.
So yeah, I don't know if you get the same thing in Scotland or what? *slightly embarrassed at irrelevant ramblings*
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