>>2872126Scotland is the funniest (if perhaps most boring) case of this because it basically lacks a "national bourgeoisie" (Scottish-not-British bourgeoisie are like 3 guys, the rest all became
British bourgeoisie and moved to England because of course you'd choose the market of 70 million over the market of 5 million) while retaining other local elites. (Scotland has a separate systems for law, education, healthcare, transport, and most other day-to-day government functions, so Scotland's upper-strata are mostly administrative rather than commercial, which is reflected in the structure of Scotland's devolved parliament.)
This has evolved into the fun idea that Scotland is not so much oppressed by the English (contra anti-Scottish-nationalist cliche which holds that they blame the Scot-on-Scot, or really British-Scot-on-Scottish-Scot highland clearances on the English.) as by
Westminster or
London via the abstractions of the Scottish National Party. Scotland oppressed not so much by England as by the union of Scotland and England that Scottish elites signed up for (against the will of the working class) centuries ago.
Which is groping at the underlying idea that basically, the biggest enemies of Scotland as a nation have always been other Scots, which is quite obvious yet rarely articulated explicitly. e.g. this is not the standard Scottish Nationalist understanding, even though Scotland's national poet doing one of his most famous works about the
parcel of rogues who were bribed into joining a union with England, because Scottish nationalists obviously like
Scottishness and are quite willing to conceptualise it quite broadly and accept anyone who wants to consider themselves Scottish whether they're muh-heritage Americans, new immigrants, or Anglo-Scots who've moved down to England. (The new immigrants are the least odd of these three, because another oddity of modern Scottish nationalism is that rather than being ethnic or cultural, it is primarily
geographic, based basically on the idea that Scotland is this set of defined borders and that they should be governed as a normal country, rather than as part of Britain's weird multinational union and failed nationbuilding project.)