A Scot's view of how little Scots are taught of their own history

[ThistleDown]

Those are good questions, BB. Jerry (jhockin) was, however, asking: I would like to "hear" the reaction of those Scots, who were educated in Scotland/ the UK, on how little, or how much, they were taught of Scottish history. The problem on this forum, with its limited cultural diversity, is that those who are not Scottish-educated find that they need to respond with comparatives from within their own culture and social experience. And because there are so fewer of us we can sometimes seem defensive which -- I assure you! -- we are not.

There is almost no similarity between the destruction of Native American culture by a greedy, land-hungry incoming horde and the absorption of Scottish society by a large, wealthier, powerful (and, perhaps, greedier) portion of itself.

If we must compare Scottish and American education, then we must look at America's North and its South, and the United Kingdom's North and South, in reverse. But -- and this is a very large 'but' -- Scotland's National educational system and intense desire for knowledge has long been superior to that of its dominant neighbour Nation. If we take the blog jhockin gives us as a symbol of Scots knowledge about its own history, the question Scots must ask is what knowledge of its history exists south of the Tweed -- and it does ask that question, frequently. A secondary question might be directed to the limited extent of the survey and, mayhap, to the location of the blogger when he conducted it.

I can't remark on your point that folk in America are absorbing history as it is tossed at them on social media without question and research. That's beyond the OP's question and quite probably in violation of our rules on political comment.