“Ignore fluffy thoughts – not sure what is going on there….”

Having personal pops is not nice. One is big enough to accept that this reflects less on me those who make them.

As for accusing we English of being associated with Dr Livingston and his crew [sic], the great man was a Scotsman, but a respect his contribution to my country’s and world history. So not sure what the point of such a statement is.

Peter, one is pretty certain that the Scots played a pivotal role in running the Empire. [My history teacher may have had a chip - he considered the English as "bloody barbarians" - but he was always a proud Yorksireman!] One is also aware that educated Indians (many of whom were Tamils) were used throughout the civil-service. This is one of the root-causes of the current insurgency in Sri Lanka. [By-the-bye, my sister-in-law is a Sri-Lankan of Tamilese and Sinhalese extraction.]

One is aware that mistakes were made in Imperial policy. However mistakes should not be buried by history (or rewritten by Disney) but observed and learnt upon. A lesson Scotland should choose to remember and not wish to forget.

But, hey….

I must take issue, despite the obvious authority of your source.

They were all indoors busily ‘assimulting’ with with the native population.
['Pirates' is a cert 12!]

The Scots were responsible for an ‘Indio-Celtic fusion’. Apparently.
Several generations later they mutinied.
Quel surprise?

Thanks for making me smile !

What would be your reaction to the notion that one effect of the Empire was that the majority of entrepising Scots upped sticks and travelled the world ?

Is this perhaps why Scotland is generally left of centre when compared to England ?

Paul

Not true…

I watched “Pirates of the Caribbean” last week and the only Scot working for the East India Company was Davie Jones, and he was only half Scots….. and half Octopus….

Peter.

‘In the 1750s little more than a tenth of the population of the Britsh Isles lived in Scotland. Yet the East India Company was at least half Scottish.
Of the 249 writers appointed by the Directors….119 were Scots. Of the 116 candidates for officer corps…..56 were Scots*.
Of the 371 men admitted to work as ‘free merchants’ by the Directors 211 were Scots. Of the 254 assistant surgeon recruits to the company 132 were Scots’

[*By contrast the Irish were overrepresented in the lower corps]

I could go on. He does. I won’t….Just love history. Sorry.