Throughout Scottish history, there is a sense that the Scots were the subject of colonisation by the English, as a target that must be oppressed, a threat. The clan system was foreign and an unknown system to the English, whose system was the kings and the church, had a relative control over the people. This is not the case in Scotland, as it has been proven that clan chiefs could have armies of their own and the clansmen were paid in accommodation rather than riches. The Scots were subject to colonialisation from day one and put up one hell of a fight in resisting for hundreds of years. They were freedom fighters, in the face of oppression. The oppression they felt was outlawing of their culture, suffocation of Gaelic culture, and the subsequent murder of their men of fighting age, one that could be seen as a violation of human rights, because they were confronted with indiscriminate violence in the days after their nation had fallen at Culloden. There were not only English guilty of these crimes of terrorism towards the Scots, but other Scots.
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