I can only help but despair at the rubbish people come out with sometimes. It's such a sad reflection of the times.
What makes me facepalm though is the sheer number of morons backing the latter up and seriously flaming the former (going as far as to tell him to kill himself).
Obviously the other viewers see Caledonia as a separate entity from Britannia entirely, and this is where the vitriol stems, but that simply isn't the case.
Caledonia is an old name for Scotland. As opposed to the south of Caledonia being collectively termed as Britannia. Britannia however, eventually came to encompass Caledonia (Britain as we know it today), so what 'flexdream' says is true and he/she doesn't mean the statement (I can assume) in a derogetory way. He/she was, afterall, simply enjoying the song in question and trying to relate in the shared emotion. Still, nationalism is blind and I find it pathetic that the idea is used for anti-English sentiment, effectively saying "This is our song, how dare you find any enjoyment from it."
If anything, to assume that Caledonia stopped existing the second it became dirtied with 'Albion', is far more disrespectful and rude than what 'flexdream' said in the first place! It can't have been that fantastic if it faltered so quickly, can it?
An Englishman, or equally someone from Papa New Guinea is able to relate to the romanticism of 'Caledonia'. Scottish people do not have a monopoly of the idea - as the idea is universal - simply because they were born by chance where they were. Modern Scots are no more Caledonians than an Englishman could be; we're born in different times. It's an idea, nothing more. It's romantic nostalgia and no borders exist there.
Now I come to think about it, it's incredibly rare to find any decent video without idiots shouting each other down.
Bleh. I don't know why I wrote that. Guess I'm just bored.
flexdream said:
Creathem76 said:
What makes me facepalm though is the sheer number of morons backing the latter up and seriously flaming the former (going as far as to tell him to kill himself).
Obviously the other viewers see Caledonia as a separate entity from Britannia entirely, and this is where the vitriol stems, but that simply isn't the case.
Caledonia is an old name for Scotland. As opposed to the south of Caledonia being collectively termed as Britannia. Britannia however, eventually came to encompass Caledonia (Britain as we know it today), so what 'flexdream' says is true and he/she doesn't mean the statement (I can assume) in a derogetory way. He/she was, afterall, simply enjoying the song in question and trying to relate in the shared emotion. Still, nationalism is blind and I find it pathetic that the idea is used for anti-English sentiment, effectively saying "This is our song, how dare you find any enjoyment from it."
If anything, to assume that Caledonia stopped existing the second it became dirtied with 'Albion', is far more disrespectful and rude than what 'flexdream' said in the first place! It can't have been that fantastic if it faltered so quickly, can it?
An Englishman, or equally someone from Papa New Guinea is able to relate to the romanticism of 'Caledonia'. Scottish people do not have a monopoly of the idea - as the idea is universal - simply because they were born by chance where they were. Modern Scots are no more Caledonians than an Englishman could be; we're born in different times. It's an idea, nothing more. It's romantic nostalgia and no borders exist there.
Now I come to think about it, it's incredibly rare to find any decent video without idiots shouting each other down.
Bleh. I don't know why I wrote that. Guess I'm just bored.
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