2007-02-07 07:59:42 · 28 answers · asked by _mark_ 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I'm Scottish and i don't hate them either, but I think it goes back to William Wallace and all that when the english tried to ban wearing tartan etc.
2007-02-07 08:03:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Flippantly I say, because the lowland Scots did the the clearances of the highlands and blamed it on the English, But seriously, I have had a long and continuing association, and have lived in Scotland and for a sizeable proportion of the Scottish population: all things bad, are too easily blamed on the English.
We are a fantastic nation, the UK has invented the modern world, built, and expanded its influence way beyond its tiny shores, Latterly we have defended the modern world from tyranny, continuing to the modern day.
The Scots have contributed and benefited massively from our partnership. 5 million strong minorities in Russia or China or India, or anywhere else have never achieved the renown and respect the Scots have today.
Why throw it away?
Why be a small stage player?
Why deny your most talented people opportunities?
2014-09-15 18:10:40 · answer #2 · answered by Messagefor 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Scots don't, it's a contrivance. It give the interested parties something to use, one side against the other.
My nieces are Scottish, their Mother from Lincolnshire as am I.
She's fiercely pro-Scot, more than her daughters!
Most Scots I've met are solid individuals, which may be the cause of the problem. In the fourteenth century the nation was not fully united and feuded against themselves as well as raided the English; who retaliated. Ultimately, remember that the King James the first of England, was Scotland's James the sixth!
So as I said at the beginning, I believe it to be a modern construction, and as an Englishman I for one am very grateful to all the brave Scottish soldiers who over the centuries have laid down their lives for the United Kingdom.
2007-02-07 16:21:35 · answer #3 · answered by stephen t 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Historical small mindedness and grudge bearing although they may have reason to.
I'm a Scot happily married to an Englishman and living in England. All my family still live in Scotland and they don't realise at all how much it hurts sometimes for them to refer to our 4yr old son as a sassenach or say they don't understand his anglified accent! After 14 yrs together it also still hurts sometimes when a member of his english family refers to "jocks" in a defamatory way in front of me.
It truly depends on the individual...I'm obviously a Scot with an open mind and I don't live with my Scottish family or my english husband's english family. We live in England away from both, just doing our own thing. Guess we live in the present not the past.
2007-02-07 16:08:59 · answer #4 · answered by nephtine 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do we?
Hmm well perhps it's the race memory of 100s of years of oppression…
Look into your own family history and see how many were killed by an English 'laird' who wanted your family off the land given to him by a King we didn't recognise so he could farm sheep on it.
I don't actually have anything against the English - or any other race for that matter but that stuff kinda runs deep with some people.
2007-02-07 16:07:44 · answer #5 · answered by circusmort 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We don't, many of us have English friends. It is only a small minority who genuinely hate them, probably mostly thugs and people who blame them for voting for the Tory government with its vindictive attitude towards the Scots and many jobs lost due to their policies. Actually the English are just as guilty of anti-Scottish hatred, mainly because a lot of them seem to think the Scots voted for their own parliament because we hated them, which just isn't the case.
2007-02-07 16:27:26 · answer #6 · answered by Rotifer 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
History
2007-02-07 16:03:10 · answer #7 · answered by tmuk55 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, because England took away your sovereignty. When you wanted to stand up and go your way, England quickly made you realise where you were on the map. The only way England would allow you to freely trade and circulate would be to 'negotiate' and sign the Treaty of Union and you have been trapped until 98…
2007-02-07 16:59:00 · answer #8 · answered by Good Advice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They try to take us over a bit, not that it shows. Oh and they still act like they don't understand a word were saying and think we eat haggis everyday, play the bagpipes and act as if they are the only contributers to Great Britain. Apart from that, they're fine.
I personally have nothing against them but what i have said is what most people think. Occassionally there are English people that act like that but most of them are fine.
2007-02-07 16:05:02 · answer #9 · answered by The High Inquisitor 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Thank you. I have nothing against the Scots either. I don't get it...where did it all stem from?
2007-02-07 16:03:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋