Token Scot?!
Someone's been watching Braveheart again...

Do you honestly perceive yourself as an oppressed minority? I just don't understand the current wave of anti-English sentiment north of the border. There's no genetic difference between us (unlike parts of the Welsh and Irish populations). Most people from England have a Scottish relative and vice-versa - my grandfather was from Aberdeen. Furthermore, we used to be a United Kingdom and a highly successful one.

Now hating the English is becoming a defining characteristic of the Scottish national identity, as if centuries old conflicts – which involved as much Scottish infighting as anything else – have any bearing on your current reality. The irony is that the enmity is one-sided. Scotland does not loom nearly as large in our consciousness as England does in yours.

I wish we had free prescriptions and our own parliament!
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 12:55, Reply)