Also applies to the three regions of Belgium, FWIW. Even your ID card and passport will be slightly different depending on where you get it.
And don’t you start grandstanding about what you think that should mean for us, because regardless of what you say your outside understanding will be incomplete and your opinions will be ignorant.
The UK has a unique history that has led its constituent nations to conceptualize strong cultural and political identities - which is far from unusual. The only unusual thing is that Brits keeps pretending that the UK is somehow Special™ and foreigners should give any more of a shit about its subnational divisions than you do about US states or German States or Canadian Provinces.
And don’t you start grandstanding about what you think that should mean for us, because regardless of what you say your outside understanding will be incomplete and your opinions will be ignorant.
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Apply the same logic. Scotland has had a pro- independence party in power since 2007, do you think this manifests in a vacuum or because there’s legitimate reason to regard Scotland as a nation?
75 years ago would you disregard the notion of Ukraine being a nation? Now you’d agree it most definitely is, but back then it was a member of the USSR, does that remove its credentials of being a nation just because it’s been subjugated by a larger entity? Despite it’s lengthy history, individual culture, etc?
Also applies to the three regions of Belgium, FWIW. Even your ID card and passport will be slightly different depending on where you get it.
And don’t you start grandstanding about what you think that should mean for us, because regardless of what you say your outside understanding will be incomplete and your opinions will be ignorant.
The UK has a unique history that has led its constituent nations to conceptualize strong cultural and political identities - which is far from unusual. The only unusual thing is that Brits keeps pretending that the UK is somehow Special™ and foreigners should give any more of a shit about its subnational divisions than you do about US states or German States or Canadian Provinces.
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Apply the same logic. Scotland has had a pro- independence party in power since 2007, do you think this manifests in a vacuum or because there’s legitimate reason to regard Scotland as a nation?
75 years ago would you disregard the notion of Ukraine being a nation? Now you’d agree it most definitely is, but back then it was a member of the USSR, does that remove its credentials of being a nation just because it’s been subjugated by a larger entity? Despite it’s lengthy history, individual culture, etc?
I think you’re the one disregarding other nations. Scotland is far from the only captive nation vying for independence in Europe, let alone the world.