The abbreviation of the United Kingdom is the British Isles and the United Kingdom of Northern Ireland. Therefore, the British Isles includes three parts: England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The indigenous people of England are the Celtic people, that is, the Scottish people. Living in England were the Germanic peoples, the Anglo-Saxons, from the European continent. In the era of the Roman Empire, the Germanic people were regarded as barbarians by the Roman Empire, suppressed and suppressed by it, and a Germanic drifted across the English Channel to what is now England, for the struggle for the right to live, this group of Germans and Celts fought for two thousand years, and finally found that no one could destroy each other, and when they found that no one could destroy each other, they acquiesced to each other and recognized each other that Scotland and England were politically equal countries, but the historical grievances that followed these two thousand years made the two countries disagree with each other. It was not until the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 that his cousin, King James VI of Scotland, came to rule England and formally merged the dynasties. Another hundred years later, Britain defeated Spain and the Netherlands successively and became the world's hegemon, and Scotland felt that it had mixed face with England, so in 1707 it signed the Act of Annexation and officially merged into the United Kingdom.
Scotland has a strong economic base. Scotland is blessed with abundant natural resources and a unique industrial structure, and its people are highly skilled in crafts and manufacturing. These factors allowed the Scottish economy to remain relatively independent during the British rule and had an important impact on Scotland's political position.
Scotland has a relatively independent position in the British political system. Although Scotland is ruled by the United Kingdom, it has its own parliament and ** in the British political system. These institutions provided the Scottish people with an opportunity to express their opinions and demands, made the Scottish political situation relatively stable, and avoided excessive British interference in Scotland.
Geographically, England and Scotland are in a "north-south confrontation" on the island of Great Britain, and England is elegant and beautiful, covering an area of 130,000 square kilometers. Scotland is vigorous and heroic, with an area of 7More than 80,000 square kilometers, except for the relatively low and flat middle, basically dominated by highland mountains, with an altitude of more than 800 meters.
In terms of the evolution of the nation, the Scots became a distinct group in the 11th century after nearly a millennium of integration, and the region was united with England in 1707, and English became the official language. The Scots are also divided into north and south, the southern lowlands speak a variant of English, called Scottish or northern English, which is an important cultural symbol of the Scottish people, in addition, Scottish identity also includes narrative poems, folk songs and other long-standing literature and ** traditions, national costumes, local sports and dance, etc., people are frugal and attach importance to education. In the north, the Highland Scots, who make up 20% of the Soviet descent, are native to the Scottish people, whose mother tongue is Gaelic (still spoken in a few areas) and who have traditionally made a living from small farm farming and sheep husbandry.
From the perspective of national character, the Scots are industrious, brave, hospitable, open-minded, romantic and honest, good at singing and dancing, full of national pride, and have a natural sense of resistance to foreign domination and oppression. Throughout the ages, many Scots have seen themselves as a repressed and discriminated nation within the United Kingdom.
From the perspective of Britain's domestic and foreign policy, the United Kingdom is dominated by England, which maintains the ethnic composition, religious beliefs, and humanistic traditions of the two islands and four regions internally, and basically does not implement an assimilation policy for the weaker ethnic groups (except Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, where it once implemented English unification). As for the overseas colonies, the British were not as committed to the spread of Catholicism as the Spaniards and Portuguese, and had a relatively high degree of preservation and identification with the local cultural traditions, exerting influence on the language, political and legal systems, etc.
In the end, the differences in religion, culture, ethnicity and many other aspects eventually caused the cultural characteristics and national personalities of the Scots to be completely different from those of the English. Eventually, it was the result of the current Scots seeking independence.
To sum up, although Britain has ruled Scotland for more than 300 years, it is difficult for Britain to completely control Scotland due to factors such as Scotland's strong economic foundation, unique culture and traditions, relatively independent political status, and the problems and challenges that exist in British rule over Scotland.