Can I just clear this up?
Just because I am not banging on about my perspective on the Referendum or replying to the copious posts of some of my social media friends doesn't mean that I am not engaged with the process.
I am NOT anti-Scottish. Voting "NO" is not anti-Scottish or anti-Scotland.
I am not Scottish. I belong to the Human Race (for good and bad). I have lived in Scotland for longer than many of my social media friends have been alive. I am not a clanvestite (although my maternal grandparents were Scottish). I am proud of my ancestors who had to deal with hardship I will never have to, who existed throughout the millennia and survived against the odds. For if any one of them had not survived, I would not be here. They needed to belong to Clans, tribes, "races", because they were in a battle for survival against other groups who wanted to make sure their genes were the only ones that survived.
Thank goodness it is mostly not like that now. (Although I don't need to look further than the Levant to see there are still plenty who want their beliefs to be the only ones that survive).
I do not live in Scotland because of an accident of birth. I chose to live here.
Shared choices are almost always divisive. I know families torn apart by decisions; friends split up. This referendum will do that too, I just hope the impact is minimal. I've already posted Margo MacDonald's amazing thoughts on this.
