Who are we?…who am I?

Have you ever wondered what someone might write/say about you in your epitaph or what might be inscribed on your headstone? Will it just be, ‘born? Died?’ & ‘son/daughter of……but nothing about you as a person?

Have you ever been asked in an interview to describe yourself and answered something like this….I am married, have children, live… work.……?

Why do we find it so difficult to describe who we are, or don’t we know any more? We all have unique identities made up of many things like language, race, and culture plus our own little quirks. Many of these are shared with others yet they remain unique in how we express them.

If Scotland was just a box what words would you use to fill it to describe its uniqueness its identity?

How do you describe your identity as a Scot?

A lot of questions, but they are important because in a recent survey when asked about identity a lot of people saw themselves as British not Scottish!

How have we become so British?

Well, the first thing we have to understand is that British means English and it’s all those subliminal messages since childhood.

It’s called Brainwashing!

The English Monarch on our currency, the English Monarch on our stamps, the English Crown stamped on most official documents including passports again, the English tax systems, English Laws, the Union Jack on most food now even if produced in Scotland! English textbooks in schools and of course the English language.

Even Holyrood is part of the English state as are those who represent us in it.

Need I go on?

We have been Englified!! to the point where we even think like them….god help us!

It is time to fill our own box and express who we really are, or want to be.

That might take a wee bit of thinking about, but necessary to present to the UN…..we do not want to present ourselves as clones of the British Estate!!…….a mini Westminster!

We all need to work together on this, bring our ideas into one box, one movement.

Liberation is not a one-man band, it’s thousands of people coming together with one vision and how to achieve it…..and there’s room for more, it’s a big box…..join us.

One thought on “Who are we?…who am I?

  1. A huge topic covered in a few well chosen words. It is a crucial question and one which we should all be thinking about – what does it mean to be Scottish? What sets us apart from the Welsh, the English.
    The colonisers have used all the tools described in your article and more, I am so grateful I was brought up to be Scottish, first and foremost.

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