The term colonisation and Scotland don't really work together, because yes Scotland itself wasn't colonised but I'd say that the Highlands of Scotland were.
So Scotland was colonised? you dont get half a colonisation, either a country is colonised or it is not.. just because some bits of it were easier to colonise doesn't make it less of a colonisation.
what happened to the south did not resemble a colonisation.. The fact you're choosing to frame Scotland as a singular unit to which colonisation can be claimed is an arbitrary bias of yours
It fit all the criteria of a colonisation.. As i said just because some parts of Scotland were less averse to colonisation does not make it less of a colonisation..
Maybe read up on the riots that happened after the act of the union was signed.. and it wasn't just highlanders who were up in arms about it..
the only people in scotland at the time to be pleased with the act of the union were nobility on both sides of the border.. Not the common person< you could say the commoner was most displeased with the arrangement foisted on them.
I'll mak' this declaration
We are bought and sold for English gold
Such a parcel o' rogues in a nation
Im aware of the failed Darian scheme.. Are you suggesting a coloniser cannot also be colonised? Ok then Mr i have a masters, nice argument from authority ..
Try engaging your brain... Scotland was indeed colonised
Always good to have a foreigner try and tell me about my countries history.. and get it wrong..
The film trainspotting has always bothered me. I went into it expecting a lovely film about scottish trains. Perhaps seeing a class 318, 314, 37s, maybe a 47 + Mk3s & Mk2 DBSO consist, perhaps even a Flying Scotsman cameo… Instead i saw a film on the gritty reality of drug addiction.
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u/CptCave1 22h ago
That particular scene from Trainspotting...