“The northern Ireland example is absurd; much of western Europe was Celtic, and as they were pushed westwards they were left with corners of France and Spain and the islands of Britain and Ireland. The Saxon invasion, followed by Vikings and Normans, added to the mix, but the Scottish Celts remain distinctly different from those of Ireland and Wales (who differ from each other as well). Scottish Protestants were planted there to remove Catholic Irish from the land (and replace them with livestock); the Scottish were in no way “returning home”. Nice to see them today asking for the independence they helped the English deny the Irish centuries ago.”
Even if you ignore the fact that they where returning back to their ancestral homeland, The plantation of Ulster happened in the 17th century, which happened earlier than the settlement of most of America, so when are you going to leave America and go back to Ireland then, if you care so much about what happened when one people displaced another?
In any case, most nations where founded through conquest if you go back far enough, so what happened centuries ago is of little relevance to the present.
In any case, the Falklands is one of those ‘nations’ if you will that was established without conquering or displacing any native peoples. If any nation has a right to decide who by and how they are ruled, it is the Falkland Islanders.
If Scotland wants to decide to become independent, that is their right. That is how things are done in the 21st century, not by nursing grudges of conquests that happened well beyond living memory.
“That is how things are done in the 21st century, not by nursing grudges of conquests that happened well beyond living memory.”
It is being done with wombs (see Ireland, California)