History is History? OR not

I have never really thought exactly what makes up my culture before. In fact, I was foolish and probably unconsciously thought most cultures were like mine with a bit of variation. After being in class on Thursday, I honestly still feel it is.

Do not get me wrong. Cultures are all different, but that is something that ties all human beings together, we all have a culture. Perhaps this isn't making sense.

I went to London for the weekend, and I didn't think it would be anything different than Scotland. I thought to myself they are both in the U.K., they both contain accents. Example one. I assumed that the accents were extremely similar and both attractive. I realized shortly after getting on the tube and hearing the London-ers speak. English and Scottish accents are completely different. I think after having hearing it for so long around Dalkeith I somehow thought Scottish and English were now the same sounding. False.

Communication between two cultures on the same continent is vastly different. Which is understandable considering their History is similar but completely different. I went to the Tower of London, and hear all about how Henry the eighth went all crazy and chopped off peoples head, and you hear about that history continuously. You hear about the monarch falling, rising the struggles between the monarch and its people. Basically it is Queen this, King that.

In Scotland, that isn't what you hear about. You hear of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce(not very often referred to as king), the 300 years Scotland was free of England, the unfair vote Scotland has in Parliament. You never hear anything about a royal family in Dalkeith, and I do not know of the Buccluech family doing any type of ceremonies continuously ever year. (Unless it involves the Queen).

In other words. These two Cultures of people Scottish and English are different in a bit of a hidden way. Due to their History, England's culture is deeply entwined in the Monarch. It is in their daily speech of communicating about how the Queen is, or refering to her still as your Grace, her royal Highness, even though she has currently no political power. In English families it is a tradition to watch the Queen give her address to the people on Christmas Day, to wish them all a happy christmas.
In Scotland, you hear about their struggle for independence and breaking free from the U.K. This is communicated in local papers, by word of mouth. If you look at their history, this is always something, that the Scots have tried to do. In families they still discuss independence from England. When I was in Mason's there was a father and son discussing the different politics in the world. Constantly keeping up on them.

It is just weird to me. That in England the Monarch is so important to daily lives. I went to the palace, paraliment, westminster abbey, the tube, every muesem possible, the tower of london, the eye, and london bridge. EVERY SINGLE ONE SOMEHOW HAD THE QUEEN INVOLVED!! Crazy isn't it? I think it is.

Ha I'll post soon about more adventures, this was really my pondering blog today. BYES!