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I apologise unreservedly for my comments. English national pride (and Scottish) is a phenomena that is probably indescribable to people from outside the UK. We have many hundreds of years of animosity and friendship with the Scots and to compare us as one and the same is as offensive to the Scots as it is to the English, albeit, lighthearedly.
As it happens I am the first English born son of a Scottish family that dates back to 1400 and something so officialy (and as far as my grandad and father are concerned) I am a Scot. However my Mother is English and so, therefore, am I.
Three Lions fierce pride and all that.
The reference to Arabic Canadians was an ironic statement refering to the fact that Devildog is neither Arabic nor Canadian but could easily be mistaken as such by the ignorant.
Just as Europeans and Americans think Scottish and English are the same when we patently are not.
I'm sorry no one appreciated the irony and I'm suprised that DD didn't, but mainly I'm sorry that I offended anyone at all because that absolutley was not my intention.
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