AIBU to wonder if there is a difference between Scottish and English viewpoints as a society?

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Maybe not worded it very well, but all this indepence talk has me thinking about it. I guess before, i just thought that England was the same as Scotland, just a larger population.

I think it is a really interesting idea OP. It does go some way to explain why I often feel like I live on a different planet to a lot of MNers!
I don't recognise the class definitions and divides, or the angst over schools, reading groups and reading schemes.
I do think Scotland is more of a socialist society and I am extremely glad of that. Perhaps there are tons of Thatcherites just waiting to come out of the closet but somehow I doubt it.

The further north you get the more similar the two races become IMO.

As PP have said, this notion of 'Middle England' just isn't something Scots would recognise. We only have 3/4 'big' cities for our 6 million population too - which means most people live in towns or in rural areas. I think this is part of what other posters have described as 'stronger communities' - people here really do know their community, they grow up in towns and the ties stay strong. The whole 2 hour commute to the city thing is practically unheard of, people really do tend to go to their local school (except in central Edinburgh and more affluent parts of Glasgow) so that helps build strong community ties.

When I read the OP I but it's an interesting question. I know we're different, but it's hard to really pin down how or why.

This is a silly admission. But in my more naive and passionate youth (many years ago) I felt that Scotland had more in common with the USSR than it did England. I always wanted to visit the soviet union but never England (apart from Cornwall as I had a think about the whole Arthurian legend).

Scotland just has or had a much more socialist outlook.