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Thread #163811   Message #3913798
Posted By: Senoufou
29-Mar-18 - 06:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: Excellent Highland Clearances discussion
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Highland Clearances discussion
Allan, I've had a beer can full of urine chucked at me at a rugby match at Murrayfield. And been spat on. I met with anti-English comments from people in Fife (Kirkcaldy) including aunts and uncles of the boyfriend.
I quickly learned to disguise my place of birth, as I said above.

My sister (a retired hospital doctor up in Perthshire) has also met with Scottish Nationalist Party aggression triggered by the fact she's not a Scot by birth, in spite of having spent over forty years up there, doing her medical training then tending to the sick.
My experiences were in the Sixties, so I'm pleased to hear you say things are different now, fifty years later.

And I can also sympathise with the Scots' attitude, having learned much about Scottish history. Between 'The Rich' and 'The English', the ordinary Scots have truly suffered many injustices over the centuries.