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We Scots do not claim to be superior to the English; we are simply sick and tired of being depicted as inferior to them in character. Take this garbage about an “anti-English obsession.” This is the exact equivalent of a patronising American Northerner depicting American Southerners as thinking about nothing except hating “Yankees” and going on and on ad nauseam about the Civil War because these Southerners have nothing else in their sad little lives to occupy them. It is as grossly insulting, hideously condescending and absurdly misrepresentative as that. I might as well announce that the English have an anti-Scottish obsession (it sometimes seems that way nowadays). Would not do so, of course, because I am fully aware that making negative generalisations about whole nations or ethnic groups is the very essence of racism. Could some responsible member of your staff please take Hal Colebatch aside and explain this to him?

p> NO INTERNET, NO PROBLEM br> Re: Bill Croke’s Out of Touch : /p> p>What a wonderful piece of writing! It made me remember my own childhood in rural Alabama in the '40s and '50s. There was a lump in my throat when I finished reading it and a hunger in my heart for a return to the simpler life. Thanks again for the memories. br> — Ruth Warren br> Canal Fulton, Ohio /p>