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Scotland is one of my hobby horses.
Now you’d think that they were a poor uwu wittle baby who were conquered instead of willingly joining in order to get more of that colonial pie as they spectacularly failed at establishing their own colonies. Scottish people have deluded themselves into thinking that they went through the same thing as the Irish rather than acting as the attack dogs of the English for the last 300 years, ironically also in Ireland. Being marginally less bad than the English is no great feat.
As a Scot, it’s annoying seeing people think that we are a “colony” of the English, because they do have an assumption of Scotland and England as different nations with different cultures and (sometimes shared) histories but assume that England annexed us illiegaly. we only formed the Union with England because we fucked up in our own efforts at imperialism, which we massively failed at and fucking bankrupted us. I would say that deciding to try and join the likes of England, France, Spain, the Netherlands etc in colonialism was the single worst decision that we ever made. Although one argument could be that the 1320 deflation of Arbroath talked about the sovereignty of the people and the 1707 Union was done against the wishes of the people, but that doesn’t make Scotland a full blown “colony”. Especially if many of us still support this union and/or willing joined the English as British imperialists. In many aspects, Scotland and England are different. But in some, we’re the same.