XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:25:06 +0100, "Westprog"    
   wrote:   
      
   >"Ilas"  wrote in message   
   >news:Xns998E5B3248AC8lurker@195.188.240.200...   
   >> "allan connochie"  wrote in   
   >> news:IPJwi.15178$mo.1399@newsfe4-win.ntli.net:   
   >>   
   >> > I think that would be a hard one to stand by. What is so strong about   
   >> > Cornish cultural identity compared with Scottish cultural identity?   
   >> > As for Tyneside North well of course there is a cultural continuum and   
   >> > it would be amazing if there wasn't. That doesn't take anything away   
   >> > from Scottish cultural identity though. Just as the continuum between   
   >> > Cornwall and the rest of England exists too. Locally we call Geordies   
   >> > 'Scotsmen wi their heids kicked in' and being Geordies they take it in   
   >> > good fun.   
   >   
   >> Pisses us off sometimes too. I'm Northumbrian, and I was in a pub in   
   >> Edinburgh (Bennett's, up Tollcross) when England played Spain in Euro 96.   
   >> The people I was with were two Irishmen and a southern Englishman, and two   
   >> drunken neds decided that they'd try and pick a fight with "the English   
   >> bastad". They made it clear they didn't count me as "proper" English and   
   >> seemed to think I should take that as a compliment. Sorry people, but   
   >> that's not a compliment. I may be from very close to the border, but I'm   
   >as   
   >> English as anyone from Surrey or Kent.   
   >   
   >I feel the same way when someone tells me I've been over here so long I'm   
   >hardly English at all.   
      
   The good nigger syndrome. Or as Goering said, "We all have our pet   
   Jews, but we must harden our hearts, etc."   
      
   I got the same treatment in London. Men saying "Hoots mon - awa wi ye   
   the noo!" when I wore my kilt to a party, to demonstrate their   
   familiarity with Scottish culture; and women with two gin and tonics   
   inside them groping my arse in the kitchen...   
      
   Women getting turned by a kilt seems to be a universal phenomenon, I'm   
   happy to report.   
      
   The Highlander   
   Tilgibh smucaid air do làmhan,   
   togaibh a' bhratach dhubh agus   
   toisichibh a' geàrradh na sgòrnanan!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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