OT: English/Scottish/Irish/Welsh

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Hey Ilene,

 

Maybe it has something to do with the Scots, Irish and Welsh not really

volunteering to be members of the United Kingdom methinks .. sorta like

most of the American Indians didn't really wanna become citizens of the

United States of America .. ;-p

 

My family name is Owen on my father's side and Jones on my mother's. If

you rip out all the Owens and Joneses from a phone book in Wales, you'll

have too little paper left to line a bird cage. ;-9

 

Many of my British English friends STILL think most of the Scottish

folks are happy to be members of the United Kingdom .. but many of my

Scottish friends tell me otherwise.

 

Methinks it might be sorta like us American Suth'ran folks .. we can see

today that America being united is good and we're proud to be a part of

the whole scene .. but deep down in our heart of hearts, we still hold a

bit of remorse and anger for some of the things that went down in the

War of Secession .. and even moreso, for that BLACK period of American

history called Reconstruction. Took the US Army 25 years to regain the

reputation they lost during Reconstruction and the worst part is that it

was forced on them - wasn't a job they relished because soldiers don't

like to play pawns for crooked pork-barrel politicans.

 

That period of history is the REAL beginning of racial discrimination in

the Suth'ran USA .. social scientists understand that but few others do.

We can honestly say that institutional racism began as a result of the

policies of the crooked congresses that followed each other through and

after the War of Succession - one of the few things historians all agree

on. The upside to that was that it was later recognized and a number of

laws were enacted to ensure no repeats .. like the Possa Comitatus Act

and the creation of the Defense Department as a stopgap between

congressional policies and military actions.

 

If not for the Indian campaigns, it would have taken the US Army 50 or

more years to be forgiven .. and they know that. Interesting piece of

history that Reconstruction period - and one most folks know nothing of.

 

Y'all keep smiling, Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

PS: Some of the finest officers in the Confederate Army were Irish and

Scottish .. that's simply because they settled in the South, as did the

Germans, whereas most of the English folks settled in the North.

 

> " Ann - Scotland (but not Scottish!!!) "

> Such an interesting thing, what is it about being English or Scottish?

> My maiden name sounded like it originated from Scotland, someone asked

> me once, I didn't know and so asked my Dad. He looked insulted and said

> " No it is English, not Scot! " No real explanation just a horrified look

> and that was the end of the conversation. Like I had asked him if we

> sacrificed babies or somethign. What is it that engenders such a thing?

> -Ilene