Cold Heart

In the light of recent events it has been each country's own moral responsibility to look closely at and deal with racism and racial tension within the different religious communities which dwell within its borders. It has been a well kept myth that Scotland always has been a non racist country. With brownie points being awarded to the keen yet calm and cheerful followers of the nation's football team who in the World Cup of 1998, held in France, took to the French like a duck to water.

Issues discussed in this essay will relate to the government's recent plans to rid Scotland of racism. The newspapers agreed that it couldn't have come at a better time for Scotland. A meagre budget of £1million to boost the message though advertisements and polls could prove to be too little too late.

In the late 90's a spate of films following Scotland's struggle with independence and gaining it from England appeared on the scene, the most popular of these being Braveheart. A touching tale of love revenge and war. These films renewed a wave of hate against the English.
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We have been described as a "rainbow nation of 120 different countries" with the new influx of asylum seekers, to which we saw many protests (with an opinion poll revealing 46% of Scots in favour of sending the asylum seekers back to the country they had fled from), Scotland has had to accommodate for their needs. racism has flared. People such as right wing historian David Irwin ( pro Hitler ) announced he would be moving from Glasgow, he described it as being "like London in the 50's" a time when the country was in a state of ...

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