BBC Scotland only did that because it’s heavily populated by people who were sent for elocution lessons to get rid of their accents by their parents, who were afflicted by the Scottish cringe.
The British establishment, as represented by BBC Scotland are at war with Scottish culture, over 300 years they’ve managed to severely curtail the use of Scots Gaelic, they already deride any who speaks Scots as unintelligent.
Here’s an anecdote from my childhood: I hail from Falkirk, born into a traditional working class family who speak predominantly broad Scots. When I started school my teacher told me to stop speaking like that, it’s slang, it’s not proper English I won’t speak to you or listen to you until you speak properly! This upset me, but of course I changed the way I spoke and I began to hate the way my parents and grandparents spoke. Fast forward three years, January 1994, and we’re handed out these sheets by our teacher that have lines of poetry, or so we’re told because I couldn’t make head nor tail of what was written on this sheet. She told us these were written by a very famous Scottish poet (I didn’t realise until this point we were actually Scottish, I thought we were British or English because everything, media, press was so British/English centred). She told us to learn these words and we would be expected to read these at a special school assembly. I was terrified. I’ve never been great with public speaking and I didn’t really fancy making a fool of myself in front of older pupils.
The night before the assembly, my Nan found me at the back of the sofa with this sheet, crying because I just couldn’t understand it. I told my Nan everything, she took the sheet off me and she read it aloud in Scots, not in Queens English and it made sense, I understood it, but I said
“I can’t read it like that!”
“Because that’s slang, not English”
My Nan was livid, she was raging about what they teach at that bloody school. It was my Nan that taught me to love my native tongue and the culture that goes with it, not the education system.
Not only did we have to read poems to the rest of the school but we had to write an essay on Burns and our experiences of his poems. I was quite honest about how big a struggle it was to disypher these poems and surprisingly got an A .
My point is, when I see the BBC Scotsplaining it reminds me of this time. We in Scotland live under a hail of English/British media and reference, we’re always the other, even in our own wee bit hill and Glen!
annaxmalina
turnnoffyourmind
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