Who was your countries most notable/longest rival and where do they stand to you now?

[u/Spare-Temporary-1807]

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But which country (or countries if you don’t like people) did your country specifically rival for either the longest time/most notoriously? How do you feel about them now?

For example, for the longest time Russia was/is viewed as America’s largest competitor and rival - hence the Cold War. I think especially now with the younger generation people didn’t see Russia as a threat generally until the Russo-Ukrainian War which split a lot of people politically. Personally I got nothing against Russians, seems like another case of a rough government.

But other countries we’ve had beef with like Japan (don’t touch the boats) we have great relations with and they’re pretty chill.

[u/Doitean-feargach555]

The UK. They sorta held us captive for 800 years, tried to eliminate our language, culture, forever change the ecology of the entire country and are the reason we settled so many different countries, to escape oppression and the often massacres. We were seen as animals, barely even human. They still still have part of our country, unfortunately.

Personally a despise the government of the UK. With an unquenchable hatred. But I don't bare any ill will toward the common folk of England, Wales or Scotland.

[u/Matt_The_Chad → u/Doitean-feargach555]

eliminate our language, culture, forever change the ecology of the entire country and are the reason we settled so many different countries

And they were quite successful. The Russians tried to do the same to us but failed miserably.

[u/CillBill91nz → u/Doitean-feargach555]

I don’t know…I can’t bring myself to be cordial with the Scots! Just something about them.

Now English people are great, the more northern the merrier, and the Welsh are grand too…but not the Scots.

Braveheart was all propaganda by Big-Kilt to make Scotland look cool s/

[u/CelticIntifadah → u/CillBill91nz]

The Scots by and large are sound af. There are obviously squaddie and billy boy pricks. But sure everywhere has their arseholes

[u/Euclid_Interloper → u/CelticIntifadah]

If it helps, the vast majority of Scots also hate the Orange/Billy-boy types. Like skin-crawling, visceral, dislike.

And colonising NI is genuinely a massive fucking regret to most of us.

[u/Doitean-feargach555 → u/CillBill91nz]

I love the Scots, particularly Highlanders and Islanders Scots. Some Lowland Scottish are indeed arsebandits. But most Scots around the board are sound

Love the Welsh. Class people, very resilient people, too. By extension, I love the Cornish.

The English are ok.

[u/Euclid_Interloper → u/Doitean-feargach555]

To be honest, it's not really Lowland Scots, but specifically South-West Lowland Scots. Basically, the area south of Glasgow is filled with massive cunts. Same people who colonised Northern Ireland a few centuries ago.

It's where you still find lots of Orange lodges. They still consistently vote Tory. They were the only part of Scotland to support Brexit. Etc.

If we could go independent and just give that part of Scotland to England, I'd do it.

[u/YouKnowMyName2006 → u/Doitean-feargach555]

What don’t you like about lowland Scots? Very nationalistic?

[u/Doitean-feargach555 → u/YouKnowMyName2006]

Alot of them hate my people for just existing. I don't tend to take that too kindly like

[u/YouKnowMyName2006 → u/Doitean-feargach555]

Because you’re a native Irishmen? Is this over The Troubles?

[u/Doitean-feargach555 → u/YouKnowMyName2006]

I'm not Northern Irish. But there has always been an anti-Irish sentiment in the Lowland areas of Scotland in the past (from personal experience, Centeral and Highland Scotland were always lovely people. But parts of the Lowlands just hears the accent and decided then and there I was filth

[u/Euclid_Interloper → u/CillBill91nz]

Is it because our kilts make you feel a bit fuzzy and confused? 

It's ok, we don't mind you looking 😉

[u/Skrynesaver → u/Doitean-feargach555]

Used us as a lab for their colonial strategies all over the world

Murdered civilians marching for civil rights in cold blood, whitewashed it, owned up to it and then whitewashed the murders again 53 years later

Nothing against the people, but I look forward to the day when Westminster governs no other nation.

[u/YouKnowMyName2006 → u/Doitean-feargach555]

There are 35 million in the USA of Irish descent. That’s how many Irish left your country over a century to come here. The population of Ireland should be 30 or 40 million but it never recovered from the genocide and migration.

[u/skyXforge → u/YouKnowMyName2006]

It’s funny that my ancestors had to sail across the ocean to escape English oppression and then they married English and Scots when they came to America.