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David McCrone, academic

“Scottishness is not to be found in the recesses of people’s brains (the Scottish gene?). It is not a matter of emotion over reason, of heart over head. Rather, Scottishness is sustained in and through the institutions we have created for ourselves: education, church, social organisations, law and, since 1999, Parliament. We are Scots because we are governed in a Scottish way; it is self-sustaining, and even more so since we recovered greater self-government in the last few years.”

 

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