• Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Scotland is British.

    Grouping Scotland and Ireland like that has always been weird to me. Scotland played a very active role in colonisation, were over represented in Colonial administrations, and themselves helped colonise Ireland (hence Ulster Scots, Scots-Irish).

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      2 months ago

      The elites orchestrated the union, the common people overwhelmingly opposed it, resisting English domination through events like the Jacobite uprisings and suffering brutal consequences such as the Highland Clearances.

      Also shared ancestry and continuous migration cycles dating back to the Bronze Age have resulted in a significant degree of genetic and cultural homogeneity between our populations.

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          2 months ago

          What are you on about? Many of the Irish fleeing colonialism ended up in Glasgow so we end up with the situation described in the OP. Are their descendants not allowed to speak up about colonialism or are they not Scottish?