Ask the UK of the Day
Ask the UK of the Day
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- scarabin0
In a very general sense, how do Scots, Irelanders, Welsh and British view each other?
- "irelanders" lolfadein11
- I'm part each of them... I despise everything about myself.fadein11
- beer brings them togetherutopian
- Irish, sorry :) I’m stoned and saw the term earlier. It stuck in my head for some reasonscarabin
- I get the sense there’s a kind of rivalry between the lotscarabin
- Rivalry is a bit of an understatement and it's very complicated. The English are the common enemy for the other 3 though.fadein11
- Scots and Welsh are British (along with N.Irish) btw.fadein11
- Did i mention this is some really good shitscarabin
- ha, it is fun.fadein11
- https://i.imgur.com/…whatthefunk
- The English can be great. Some of my best friends are English. Also, the English can be absolute loathesome cunts who despise everyone that's not them.Nairn
- I don't even think a lot of what we suffer is racism. It's just that in certain cultures - and I'd hazard here, the English particularly - People hate peopleNairn
- You're a Northerner? Fuck you.
You're from outside the M25? Fuck you.
You're from Left Hampstead? Fuck you.
You live two streets over? Fuck you.Nairn - ^ lol, ha - so true...whatthefunk
- ^ very true. some of my best mates are English and other mates are full on Irish republicans. common after a few drinks to get folks shouting BRITS OUT! orkingsteven
- singing anti english protest songs all while smiling and apologising profusely to the english folks in the room "No, not you mate..." etc.kingsteven
- I had the impression the english thought of scotland as like a motherland, the welsh were more rural, and the scots think everyone but them are girly menscarabin
- The most common sentiment is anti-English but it's very much shorthand for the 'landed classes' - military officers etc. You find most northern English folkskingsteven
- will have a similar distrust of the southern English folks. In reality not as decisive as internal religious divides or what team you support.kingsteven
- But generally as you find everywhere: the less gentrified and outwardly welcoming a place is the nicer the people actually are... the only way you find out iskingsteven
- by going there.kingsteven
- Aye - technically I'm Northumbrian English, but that's basically Borders, which is basically Scotland. North of York is a vastly different culture to The South.Nairn
- I visited LDN 2-4 times a year as a kid and it was abundantly clear that this part of the world was entirely different to, and had no concern with, my partNairn
- Mind you, LDN's its own bubble.
Westminster particularly.
Hence Brexit.Nairn - Also - this "I had the impression the english thought of scotland as like a motherland" - absolutely not. If anything, Southerners are basically French.Nairn