worried about scotland!

Sure there are English people who hate the Scots but very very few and I don't think I've met one. I will take the risk of saying that there is more anti-English sentiment in Scotland than anti-Scottish sentiment in England.

A huge surprise that a St Andrews student doesn't like Glasgow. I'd love to see this wide ranging research that qualifies one to say 'by all accounts'. Let me know when you meet a working class Scot up there, I'll do my best to look like I expected it. It's officially the most elitist University in the UK now, so I'd expect nothing less.

Well, my mum is English, thus making me half English. Yes, most Scots would root for anyone except England in all things sporting, but thats really as far as it goes. I won't give you a history lesson about Thatcherism in Scotland, but if you look around that time, that was the high watermark of anti-English feeling in 20th century Scotland, and unfortunately most of the 1980s remains engrained as a stereotype as far as Glasgow is concerned. My English half of the family is split between London and Liverpool- and I've had twice as much anti-Scottish sentiment down there than my mum has had in 23 years up here. Glasgow is regarded as some giant slum full of headbangers who want to mug/stab everyone by the same enlightened people who will warn you us Scots hate the English. 3,000 people at this University come from England, I don't think that would be the case if it were as bad as some of the ignorant few would make out. There is people who hate the English- and I know a few. If you don't know anyone in England who hates the Scots/Irish/Asians/Immigrants then I'd be nothing short of amazed. It is everywhere, but its in a tiny, tiny minority.

The President-elect of the Student Representative Council, recently voted in by GU students, is English, and doesn't try to hide it. We obviously didn't try hard enough, as a city of Anti-English hooligans, to hound her out of the University and back down south, did we? Don't believe everything you read on TSR- there's a few too many cretins on this board for my liking.

It's always funny to think of one's own way of speaking as an accent. I will forever consider anything dissimilar to myself an accent... and I really don't know what my accent sounds like.

I imagine I will likely introduce myself as Andrew from Canada... or Vancouver, BC, Canada etc. I'll have to do that for a while I guess.

Oh well I am looking forward to it as long as I don't have to deal with to much anti-americanism.

A huge surprise that a St Andrews student doesn't like Glasgow. I'd love to see this wide ranging research that qualifies one to say 'by all accounts'. Let me know when you meet a working class Scot up there, I'll do my best to look like I expected it. It's officially the most elitist University in the UK now, so I'd expect nothing less.

Well, my mum is English, thus making me half English. Yes, most Scots would root for anyone except England in all things sporting, but thats really as far as it goes. I won't give you a history lesson about Thatcherism in Scotland, but if you look around that time, that was the high watermark of anti-English feeling in 20th century Scotland, and unfortunately most of the 1980s remains engrained as a stereotype as far as Glasgow is concerned. My English half of the family is split between London and Liverpool- and I've had twice as much anti-Scottish sentiment down there than my mum has had in 23 years up here. Glasgow is regarded as some giant slum full of headbangers who want to mug/stab everyone by the same enlightened people who will warn you us Scots hate the English. 3,000 people at this University come from England, I don't think that would be the case if it were as bad as some of the ignorant few would make out. There is people who hate the English- and I know a few. If you don't know anyone in England who hates the Scots/Irish/Asians/Immigrants then I'd be nothing short of amazed. It is everywhere, but its in a tiny, tiny minority.

The President-elect of the Student Representative Council, recently voted in by GU students, is English, and doesn't try to hide it. We obviously didn't try hard enough, as a city of Anti-English hooligans, to hound her out of the University and back down south, did we? Don't believe everything you read on TSR- there's a few too many cretins on this board for my liking.

Actually, I agree with you about the aggression being non-violent, I'd say English football louts were amongst the worst in Europe and a total embarassment. What I was trying to get at what how they seem to feel about English - it seems to be common from my experience that Scottish people feel as though they have been subjugated by the English for hundreds of years and that we are personally responsible for everything wrong with their lives. That is just the SNP lot admittedly but there isn't really a whole group of people in England that have such contempt for Scotland, if you get me. Personally I love Scottish people and Scotland (like I said my Aunt is Scottish) but feel as though English are hated there and I can totally understand the OP's concerns. Maybe it is a misconception, I don't know.

LOL, see in my experience we limit our anti-englishness to laughing when you get beat at the football and cheering on the team you're playing. I lived in yorkshire for 2 years and in that time ended up pressing charges on some local people who shouted abuse at me and my family, all anti-scottish abuse, for a number of months.

I would say there's probably an equal amount of anti-scottishness in england as there is in england towards scottish people. We're generally a friendly country and you take out your aggression on foreign football supporters (I joke, of course).

I got put in jail because of you

care to elaborate?

nevermind

Im afraid it wasnt me who was responsible - I was staying in Hornsea at the time, not Keighley

Well my dads english and my mums a scot and i was born in oxford but i've lived in sotland almost all my life and in east kilbride just south of glasgow since i was 7.

I've had a few jokes made here and there but no major problems. As long as you don't act like a snob, quote Thatcher at all or imply england is better than scotland you will be fine.

Just leave your england top at home and nobody will say anything to you.

Most of the abuse you hear about scots giving to the english is just friendly banter about how your accent makes you sound gay. The serious causes are just when idiots go about drunk in a full england strip to an east end pub singing english football songs. NEVER DO THAT!

You will be fine. I know loads of people who are considered to be "English but their actually really nice"

You make a cracking point with the emboldened bit, are the working class lot more enlightened?

My ideas on the issue of glasgow stem from a few of my peers who live there (and were raised there) on my course, and two mates from home who went to uni there. I try not to take into account what we get in lectures about Glasgow, as its never going to paint a fair picture of the place.

Don't get me wrong, england is full of anti-scottish sentiment, its disgusting on both sides of the border. (I've only encountered such anti scottish sentiment among the more working class lot at home, I would hope its not that wide spread amongst them, but fear it probably is).