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Complex question of national identity reveals Scottish state of mind



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Susanna Freedman, Managing director, Tsuko
WHAT does being Scottish really mean? I don't think I have ever questioned what makes me Scottish. What I'm probably clearer on is that, nowadays, it is increasingly difficult to produce a template for what constitutes a Scot.

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  • Last Updated: 12 May 2008 8:46 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Sierra Foothills Scot,

Diamond Springs 13/05/2008 02:36:35
Navel-gazing waste of space. I hope Tsuko paid the Scotsman for this advertising blurb.
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democracy,

Scottish Borders 13/05/2008 03:32:44
Your final sentence says it all, you cannot study,
dissect and analyse a culture, its everything and its nothing, its diverse and singular, its multiracial and homologous, its the past and present, its like most people and cultures, its that 'je ne sais quoi'.
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Al Ford,

Insch 13/05/2008 12:01:33
Being Scottish is as complex or as simple as you want to make it.

The country we live in shapes us, and we owe it a duty to look after it in return. Scottish identity has been blighted by a failure to discharge that duty adequately. That is to say that as Scots we are not all that complex, but we do have a complex.

The renewed confidence referred to in the article can remedy that by leading us to take charge of our country. In doing so we shall remove the blight and make ourselves whole.
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Truely English,

13/05/2008 17:31:13
It seems the Scots are English/British in language, character, culture and identity. They came from the same background as the English are from and were desperately happy and proud of this until the Empire started to disintigrate.

Yes, of course they want to be seen as being modern which country or group of people do not.

 

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