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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2004  
         
  Article:   SCOTTISHNESS: TRADITION, CULTURE AND IDENTITY.

Authors:  ADRIAN RADU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The cultural content of Scottish variety of nationalism is relatively weak, when compared with other forms of nationalism (e.g. Welsh, Irish, Catalan or Quebec). In these instances we have an alternative “imagined community” (McCrone, 1992: 174). Unlike in the territories mentioned above, in Scotland nationalists look sideways - this being one of the reasons why Scottish nationalism is considered relatively weak as compared to other forms of nationalism - rather than backwards, the justification being that by looking backwards what they find there are negative motifs, a distorted and deformed past, mythologies. Even so, because Scottish identity could not take a political form of expression, the only thing left was this subversion into a cultural backwater of cultural nationalism (McCrone, 1995: 63). On the other hand, in the cultural representations of Scotland we have to remark an obsession with what has passed, rather than with the present and the future.  
         
     
         
         
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