Scotland like Ireland in some wars was not determined to be a legitimate fighting force, so their wounded soldiers were shot at or killed. It was a type of political oppression that both nations felt in the Easter Rising and Culloden. With political acknowledgment, they may have been treated better, arguably of course, but it was the rejection by the British of their political acknowledgment that led to horrifying suffering. As well as well known religious oppression, there was, of course, the ethnic oppression, erasing of their culture and language. Scottish nationalism is not a conservative concept that wants to kick every nationality out of the country, in fact, Scotland is a world leader in community development and resettling refugees. Scottish nationalism is an independence movement, similar to that of the Catalans. This is where Robert Burns has been adopted as a Scottish revolutionary, with his Jacobite sympathies, as Scottish nationalism is freedom fighting and an independence movement.
No comments:
Post a Comment