4th Chapter

Question 1

What is Scottish distinctiveness felt through?

Answer 1

Different banknotes, education and legal systems, Scottish dialect

Question 2

Where in Scotland is felt a genuinely Scottish Gaelic sense of cultural identity?

Answer 2

Western Isles of Scotland and the adjoining mainland

Question 3

What is the difference between Scottish Gaelic (Gallic) and Scots?

Answer 3

Gallic Scots speak Scottish Gaelic as a first language

Question 4

Which Scottish tradition is associated with 25 January and how is it celebrated? (what is haggis, reels, Tam o’ Shanter, Dundee cake, Sir Walter Scott’s role)?

Answer 4

Burns supper
Wearing kilts
Singing traditional songs
Dancing reels
Eating haggis
haggis - pudding (sheep’s heart, lungs, liver)
reels - traditional dances
Tam O’Shanter - poem by Burns
Dundee cake - fruit cake (originating from Dundee)
Sir Walter Scott’s role - reciting poems at Burns supper

Question 5

Which nation has got more well-known symbols of their national identity - the Welsh or the Scots?

Answer 5

Scots

Question 6

In what way does the organisation of public life in Wales differ from that of Scotland?

Answer 6

Their feeling of loyalty to Wales is weaker, than the Scottish loyalty to Scotland, a lot of people moved into Wales, or at least have a holiday home there

Question 7

What is the nature of many Welsh people’s feeling of loyalty to Wales?

Answer 7

Regional loyalty is stronger than nationalistic

Question 8

What is the most important symbol of Welsh identity and how is it reinforced?

Answer 8

Welsh language, reinforced by successive campaigns and public support

Question 9

Which UK nation makes no distinction between British and their own ethnic ideals?

Answer 9

England

Question 10

The great wave of immigration that took place between 1950 and 1965 was from:

Answer 10

Continental Europe (Italy, Poland)

Question 11

What is the difference between the nuclear family and the extended family?

Answer 11

Nuclear family consists of a father, mother and children (sometimes)
Extended family - more generations living together

Question 12

What are the nicknames of people from Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and (part of) London

Answer 12

Liverpoolians/Scousers
Mancunians
Geordies
Londoners

Question 13

In which counties is there a stronger sense of geographical identity and how is it reflected?

Answer 13

Yorkshire, Cornwall

When crossing the border, they talk about “going to England”

Question 14

How do the “northerners” and “southerners” view each other?

Answer 14

They see each other as hypocritical and unfriendly.

Northerners think southerners are lazy.

Question 15

What is a typical feature of London’s Cockney slang and can you give any examples?

Answer 15

Rhyming slang
wife - trouble and strife
stairs - apples and pears
think - use your loaf

Question 16

What are double-barrelled names and why have their numbers increased over the last decades?

Answer 16

Two part surnames separated with a hyphen (Barclay-Finch)

Feminism, sense of both heritages

Question 17

Do the British celebrate name-days?

Answer 17

They do not celebrate name-days

Question 18

What is the most prestigious accent in Britain known as?

Answer 18

Received Pronounciation

Question 19

What is the combination of standard English spoken with an RP accent usually referred to as?

Answer 19

BBC English

Queen’s English

Question 20

How does the opposition RP accent - regional accent indicate someone’s class?

Answer 20

Strong regional accent - working class
RP - upper/middle class

Question 21

Why is someone’s accent a clearer indication of his/her class than his/her ability to speak standard English?

Answer 21

Almost everyone can speak standard English when needed, accent shows in which class you belong

Question 22

What is the meaning and the connotation of the word posh?

Answer 22

Being distant, pretentious
"Of a class higher than the one I belong to"

Question 23

What is inverted snobbery and what is the belief behind it?

Answer 23

When middle-class people try to adopt working-class values and habits
In belief that working-classes are "better"

Question 24

How do the two communities of the polarised Northern Irish society differ and how is this reflected in real life?

Answer 24

One side is Protestant and wants to remain part of the UK
The other side is Catholic and wants to become a part of the Irish Republic
- different: schools
doctors and chemists
anniversaries
newspapers
radio and television stations

Question 25

Which sport does and which does not show the typical segregation of the Northern Irish society and why?

Answer 25

Football shows segregation, because it is mainly a working-class sport
Rugby does not, it is a middle-class sport

Question 26

Why are the British not usually actively patriotic?

Answer 26

Hard to find common values in a multicultural society
UK has less influence on the world nowadays
Fear that UK might break up

Question 27

Which event from the early 1980s brought about a wave of patriotism in Britain?

Answer 27

Workers strike for higher wages (British Steel Corporation)

Question 28

Which country is the popular British image of Europe usually associated with?

Answer 28

England