At 11:27 pm -0600 25/5/99, John Hooker wrote:
>Gosh, I just meant archaeologists from Britain. Are Scotland and Wales
>called "countries" now? That would be encouraging. I had the
>impression that they were referred to as "regions" as in say, "Tibetan
>Autonomous Region" ;-) after thirty three years absence my
>nomenclature might be rusty.
Ah well, at this level I can contribute. I think most people in the British
Isles regard Scotland and Wales as separate countries withing a larger
whole. For instance, in Rugby football (not that I greatly follows sports)
the major tourney is the Five Nations, England, France, Scotland, Wales,
and (I think) Ireland. And in soccer Scotland has a different league from
England.
More important, Scotland has its own Parliament now (since a few weeks ago)
and Wales has an Assembly (not quite a parliament).
I'm on a Celtic cultures list, and this discussion (with some reference to
Simon James's book) has been going on there too. But much of the discussion
is about the use of the word "Celtic" by romantic Americans. I always get
amused (but also abit angry) that in US record stores any music from the
British Isles gets classified as Celtic.
Daniel Cohen
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