Read up on the Act of Union.It was not forced on them. the Scottish monarch inherited England! not the other way around! really they merged because the Stuart dynasty took over england.
Read up on the Act of Union.It was not forced on them. the Scottish monarch inherited England! not the other way around! really they merged because the Stuart dynasty took over england.
again. they agreed to it. it wasn't forced on them
Actually same way Bavaria got to be in the German Empire.They "agreed" to it because they were in massive debt and England offered to assume it.
Then stop making a fuss about Scottish Independence and the referendum.Am I the only Scot who gets a bit offended by foreigners constantly inferring that we are not free and that we exist as subjects to the English? I'm not usually insulted on national terms but I think some people have watched too much Braveheart.
We are British living in the UK and Scots in our own segment of it. We are barely even different.
Actually i got my glasses from 'Trainspotting'.Am I the only Scot who gets a bit offended by foreigners constantly inferring that we are not free and that we exist as subjects to the English? I'm not usually insulted on national terms but I think some people have watched too much Braveheart.
We are British living in the UK and Scots in our own segment of it. We are barely even different.
Then stop making a fuss about Scottish Independence and the referendum.
They "agreed" to it because they were in massive debt and England offered to assume it.
I am under the impression that the union was quite widely opposed anyway, although the leading politicians managed to blaze through it.Don't forget that Westminster had made it pretty clear they weren't going to tolerate a potentially hostile power to their rear any more. Scotland got fairly good terms for union, considering that otherwise the English probably would have found a good excuse to conquer them had they refused.
but they still said yes
Actually same way Bavaria got to be in the German Empire.
Prussia paid their debt and as a quid pro quo the bavarian king was the one offering the Prussian king the German Imperial Crown.
It is a matter of a king saying yes, granted, but in a time were even the more liberal minded people still had a hard time thinking of a world without kings, the kings word was the peoples word.
As for no common cultural heritage:
I would think that something like 800 years of warfare <nd unions has breed some kind of mutual culture and linguistic similarities.
Also Scottish is no more an independent langauge than Bavarian. Both are dialects, nothing more.
And as far as i know Scotland does not even do the 'original language teaching' that Ireland tries to do, though with mixed success.
Am I the only Scot who gets a bit offended by foreigners constantly inferring that we are not free and that we exist as subjects to the English? I'm not usually insulted on national terms but I think some people have watched too much Braveheart.
We are British living in the UK and Scots in our own segment of it. We are barely even different.
I am under the impression that the union was quite widely opposed anyway, although the leading politicians managed to blaze through it.
IMO, the union is a good thing for both countries though.
Because a thread about rebels has anything to do with the British-Scottish relation
Although i agree rebels are a bit crazy