Independence for Scotland
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- kelpie0
guys, that's what I meant - I didn't meant to belittle any claims for independence from Catalonia or the Basque (I lived in Barcelona, I know how strongly they feel, and sympathise).
I meant that "Catalonia" wasn't the 'kingdom of Catalonia' directly before "Spain" came into being and hasn't continued as a separate entity within a whole as the nations of the UK have.
The "UK" is not a country in a normal sense, it has always been a group of 4 countries - this is what makes its constituent states a curiously different case from places like Spain. Were we the same, we would be called "Britain" and have no internal borders.
Catalans have it far worse than us. The UK suffers from some popular misconceptions and old fashioned conventions of government, but Scotland has never been subsumed into a whole and stripped of its separate identity.
Is Aragon or Navarra claiming for independence from Spain, for example?
see what I'm getting at? didn't mean to insult anyone.
A lot of Catalans would talk about Scotland and Catalonia being the same, it was difficult explain the differences.