Nigel wrote: > ... but prejudice exists at an endemic level and in > some areas it's so deeply ingrained it's second-nature.
There's been a lot of discussion in the Scottish media on this over last year. One statistic reported is that there isn't any difference in measures of social status between Catholic and Protestant people in Scotland. This is offered as proof that discrimination over jobs, housing etc is not now an issue (as it used to be). One police officer reported that if you removed a particular street from the crime statistics they all but disappeared. I suspect it's a local tribal thing rather than racism. Maybe this is an east coast perspective, but it seems it's the folks whose skin is a different colour who are on the receiving end of most of the prejudice round here, and the catholic/protestant thing is over-hyped in comparison, mainly cos links into the Old Firm and football, and sells newspapers. Derek Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
