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 | | The process of choosing to be Scottish is similar to being adopted by a new cultural family and the transaction, as in L's case, is often facilitated by what could be described as adoption agencies: Scottish interest groups, such as Burns Societies and Scottish country dancers. |
 | | The Scottish diasporas demand for nostalgic sentimental tales of the Mother Country, it is argued, sustained Scotlands culturally immature state during the Victorian period.(7) Through such criticism Stevenson becomes the living embodiment of a Scotland unable to assert its nationhood, held in thrall to the imperial power of its neighbour. |
 | | In the Scottish Chapbook proclamation that in 1922 marks the beginning of Hugh MacDiarmids Renaissance project, the poet declares on the language issue that it is the purpose of his venture to "encourage and publish the work of contemporary Scottish poets and dramatists, whether in English, Gaelic, or Braid Scots [my emphasis]". |
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