American Reacts England and Scotland Compared

[@martynnotman3467]

The History bit has LOTS of errors

[@audreymcgready4329]

As a Scot i can tell you this Island is anything but united.

[@PiousMoltar]

As an Englishman I can say, f*ck you of course we are. But on a more serious note, why aren't we? Why do you hate us so much? We don't hate you. We love you, and the Welsh. And they hate us too. Look we're all in this shit together and splitting up is not going to make things any easier. And yes we hate London and the government too, it's not just you. At least you have your own parliament.

[@TheJpf79]

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/jacobite-1745/laws-control-scotland/

[@markwilkie3677]

Hey there 👋 Scotland is also territorially larger than England when you count our maritime territory 🤣

[@malcolmjcullen]

That history guy they used in the video was talking utter bollocks. I mean "England got their king through the lineage of the legendary King Arthur"?? No they didn't!

[@loddude5706]

Just 'cos some aquatic bint lobbed a scimitar at him? - nice catch though. : )

[@AlwaysRightAllNight]

He means King Alfred

[@loddude5706]

@@AlwaysRightAllNight The Sword in the Cake?

[@malcolmjcullen]

@@AlwaysRightAllNight King Alfred didn't have a "legendary lineage", so it's not as if he just said Arthur instead of Alfred. But anyway, I've seen since on the linked video that they explain the "mistake".

[@AlwaysRightAllNight]

@@malcolmjcullen do you mean that he doesn’t have a legendary ancestry. Because then I agree but Alfred’s line of descendants are pretty legendary

[@maryavatar]

Slightly annoyed that this guy had clearly done a lot of research on England, and just regurgitated a bunch of cliches about Scotland. Sure list off all the great English musicians, and completely ignore all the great Scottish scientists and engineers. And listing the primary industries of both nations, but forgetting that Scotland is an oil-producing country while also being a world leader in renewable energy tech - very disappointing.

[@Cameron_RS]

The history bit near the start by the supposed local is largely bollocks and heavily English biased.

[@tersse]

scotland has about 6 million people and 4 world renound universities, england has 60 -70 million people and has, 4 world renound universities, no wonder scotland invented most of our tech over the last 200 years.

[@JustChrisNow]

"mythical"? I live half an hour from Loch Ness. Nessie is as real as the Loch, she just doesn't like foreigners (the Jurassic period was a different time. Don't judge her). That's why she hides whenever you're over here with your cameras and your sonar. Oh, and her real name is actually Janet Ness but she's fine with Nessie, as long as it brings in the tourists.

[@KingBuster90]

The dude was definitely deep throating England in this video, he completely brushed over a tone of shit about Scotland but went over a lot of detail about England

[@freespirit_74]

Wow so many great musicians and great bands come from Scotland I can't believe the guy in the video you're watching says they are one hit wonders?? Travis, Annie Lennox, Biffy Clyro, Simple Minds, Big County, Runrig, Nazareth, Paolo Nutini, Alex Harvey Band, Lewis Capaldi to name a few could be here all night.

[@myhvKun]

Yeah, but most people heard "I'm Gonna Be" and can recognize it instantly.

[@philipmorgan6048]

You could be here all night naming Scottish one hit wonders.

[@offal]

you forgot texas, and gerry cinnamon although annie lennox was one half of Eurythmics Dave Stewart is English, yes you could be here all night but the English could be here for 2 weeks, Simple minds are one of my favourite bands. I guess it comes down to influential bands and artists, he skimmed over the English artists too. Runrig,, really! you went there lol

[@veluxmitochondriaph1373]

Damn, the amount of research done on england was massive and 90% of this video was facts about england whilst naming one or two things about scotland with very little information

[@gregormcginlay4904]

Scotland was down played. What a joke

[@spacehopper77]

When the UK formed in 1707 the population of Scotland was 1 million while England was 5 million so a 1:5 ratio. Now the ratio is 1:10.5 in 2023. Now why is that? Like two plants sharing the same plant pot the bigger plant has stifled the growth of the smaller. When you consider in Europe that population size generally correlates with economic strength then surely anyone can see that the union has benefited England over the detriment of Scotland.

[@TgarMask]

England sits on the great European plain. It can hold more people than Scotland so it grew more than Scotland when industrialisation allowed populations to climb. Scotland is one of the most prosperous regions in the world. Your growth hasn't been stifled, you're just too full of spite to see how good you have it

[@JimKerr-xl2jt]

​@@OneTrueScotsmanEnglish 🤡 , cry when Scotland regains it's independence 😭

[@charmainelamont2020]

@@OneTrueScotsman I agree with what you saay, but have to point out that Cardiff is not more populated than Edinburgh. Cardiff's population is 362,310, while Edinburgh's is 558,676.

[@dundeedolphin]

Absolute bollocks mate. You've over-simplified it based on your own prejudices.

[@gogglescot]

Formed against the Scottish peoples will, the English government have annexed Scotland

[@hunterblackforesthy5980]

first of all scotland has multiple accents scotland also has several writers and such like the creator of sherlock holmes arthur conan doyle albert Einstein was inspired by a scottish scientist so for him to name only one person from scotland was insulting also there are many scottish artists garbage franz ferdinand deacon blue wet wet wet etc so again for him not to mention any was insulting

[@TheMountainMan001]

It may have been said already. But Scotland was uninhabitable for a long time as it was completely covered in ice - around 15,000 years ago the globe began to warm during the younger dryas period. This melted the ice and changed the geological landscape of Britain. Not long afterwards, the land bridge to Europe known as ‘Doggerland’ was overtaken by the ocean to form the North Sea. These events would all play a part in seeing the eventual success of those residing on the British isles, several millennia’s in the making. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 I think

[@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey]

The land bridge lasted at least 3,000 years and is estimated to have vanished about 12,000 years ago.

[@micade2518]

Just by observing the landscape, Scotland is much more rugged, hence, maybe less suited for human settlement?

[@squirepraggerstope3591]

Er... a few errors but otherwise not bad. In fact, both Scotland and England were uninhabited at the last glacial maximum, as the ice sheet covering what're now the British Isles stretched south beyond what's now the Thames valley. So what later became England's south coast was also uninhabitable given its proximity and consequent vile climate. Re the Younger Dryas, it was actually a c1,000 year period from about 12,800 to 11,800 years BP that saw significant cooling and a partial return to glacial conditions, so the warming you mention occurred BEFORE the YD, was reversed during it, then resumed afterwards.

[@stuarthumphrey1787]

The 486 thousand years difference between English and Scottish settlement, is because of the last ice age. It receded north, so was later populated as it melted

[@PiousMoltar]

486 thousand year difference? Yeah no. That's absurd.

[@jamienorman3450]

Scotland isn't allowed to become a free independent republic by England. The English forbid it, and overrule the elected Scottish Parliament. Some fool will possibly be along shortly to say that I'm wrong, but consider these things: to be a democracy a country should be able to choose their head of state; a country should have self determination to be a member of organisations or unions such as the EU, NATO or the EEA, Scotland is denied these choices, in fact with the Brexit vote, it was the only nation of the 4 in the UK which wasn't allowed its choice, England & Wales were allowed their choice to leave, Northern Ireland chose to remain and is still in the EU, Scotland chose to remain and wasn't allowed to remain being forced out against the will of the nation, the 3rd thing is having an elected government where the Scottish Government, elected by the people of Scotland, make a decision which is voted for by each party in Scotland, isn't overturned by the parliament in England. That is dictatorship, not democracy. The UK is in the final spluttering breath of imperialism, soon to expire as Ireland reunites, Wales & Scotland becoming independent very soon afterwards. The 8.7 trillion pounds of external debt that the UK has, is all owed from London, so England will soon be making Greece look like a gold plated economy under the terms of being the successor state.

[@markdavidson9743]

Pile of inaccurate nonsense

[@NewkemG]

Total nonsense . I believe you got elected your first minister recently . How did that go ? sturgeon now under fraud and embezzlement investigation . Yousef (basically renamed useless ) resigned in shame after revealing his very anti white racist views . Central government in Westminster devolved many powers to the Scottish parliament most of which have been largely mismanaged . Scotland now has the lowest life expectancy in Europe, its education system is in a terrible state by comparison , it’s drug problem is out of control , this despite Westminster Public spending being roughly 15% higher for Scotland, Ireland and Wales compared to spending on the English . The desire for Scottish independence has drastically declined in recent times due to the appalling performance of the Scottish National Party . Interesting too that their desire was to become independent from the UK and then immediately seek membership of the EU , a much larger dictatorship in which it would hold very little influence . It also does not meet economic and other thresholds to join the Eu nor to adopt the Euro currency so having become independent from the UK would need to form its own currency which it currently lacks the ability to do.

[@dundeedolphin]

This is more wrong than right.

[@jamienorman3450]

@@markdavidson9743 Which part is wrong? Does Scotland have a choice in the head of state? Surely a democracy would be able to choose the head of state, or is that anti-democratic?

[@gogglescot]

Absolutely true, everything you said is on point, the unionists will say it’s all wrong but we know the uk union is a dictatorship set up by England and run by England

[@keithhurst2970]

Hi Conor. The Tower of London is not the oldest structure in London. There are a number of churches in London that are older and parts of the old city walls still exist dating back to 190-225 AD, built by the Romans who first settled London in about 43 AD (or Londinium as they called it).

[@bartholomewswarmkrunsh3859]

“King” Arthur? He means King Alfred. The first mention of an Arthur is in the 9th Century by a Welsh monk and the accuracy of this work is questionable. He describes battles in which Arthur lead the Britons (not the "English"), but as a chieftain or commander rather than a king. He may have been from what is now known as Wales. It was only in later years when the “King” Arthur myth took hold, particularly in the 12-13th centuries, during the Tudor period and again in Victorian era. If he existed, it was probably around the 6th century - everything else about the story is fabrication. Camelot and the Knights of the round table were invented in the 12th Century to bolster the myth and in the 13th century the castle of Tintagel was built by King John’s son as the fictionalised birth place of Arthur. King Alfred is much more interesting (and factual too).

[@christopherscott5093]

Agreed.

[@ianwalker5842]

Yeah, what a glaring error that was!

[@markwilkie3677]

Interesting how Scotland has more places named Arthur than anywhere else in UK. The most obvious being Arthurs seat in Edinburgh, and the site in front of Stirling castle which is theorised as being the round table. Overall I think he was Celtic, probably Welsh but with not so much to do with England.

[@dperson9212]

Everyone needs to visit Scotland at least once, everyone. It is incredible. I say that as someone from south of the border. Scotland is the most beautiful place. There is rivalry these days but it doesn't amount to anything. There are so many people who reaidenin the other country, inter-marrying etc, that was inevitable that it'd be less hostile as it once was. But yeah, visit Scotland, it's beyond words.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

😮 What is that word..."reaidenin"? Is it Scottish?

[@aa-xg3ct]

I think he means 'reside in'

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@aa-xg3ct Ah...uh huh... 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I should've guessed. Thank you. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🖖

[@dperson9212]

@@brigidsingleton1596 😂😂😂typo sorry

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@dperson9212 Oh please .. no apologies are necessary. 🖖

[@peterbiggin7193]

Connor in your head did you sound Scottish? Well I hate to disappoint you but......😂 King Arthur? Really? The first king of England was Aethelstan

[@markwilkie3677]

There's a place in East Lothian, named Athelstaneford, where he was defeated and its where the Saltire originated. Before the battle a white cross appeared on a blue sky and is where our national flag comes from.

[@davidsandz2186]

And the Romans didn't conquer Scotland.

[@mskatonic7240]

9:47 Ice Ages. Most of the country was covered in glaciers until about 12k years ago.

[@momoeesha]

The misinformation in this video is atrocious, you couldnt have picked a worse example to show.

[@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey]

Really disappointed that he could not be bothered to mention even one Scottish group, Annie Lennox, Barbara Dickson, Simple Minds and Runrig to name a few; or reseach a bit more about our Scottish contributions to the world of medicine and science and literature. Poor.

[@dundeedolphin]

To be fair, the English artists are globally renowned. Barbara Dickson? Not so much

[@kareno6986]

Scotland has nearly 800 islands and only about 100 are inhabited. It also has many different accents.

[@fleshen]

Not sure who the historian guy is but he mixed up King Arthur of the Britons and not the Saxons with the real life Saxon King Alfred!

[@Evasion381]

yea glad I didn't imagine that haha

[@mickohara7268]

Hi Conor. Seeing unexpected faces and body mages in objects and pictures is a phenomenon that most people experience, it's termed pareidolia. Some of us have it occur very often.

[@artasium1]

Huge numbers of Scots settled in Virginia and are especially associated with Appalachans. A lot of the fiddle playing and folk music there stems from that. I watched a documentary about this a few years back.

[@sheronasims6783]

Yeah. Shape of confederate battle flag is St Andrews Cross

[@artasium1]

@@sheronasims6783 Being Scottish myself I can see how back then that part of USwoukd have seemed to the Scots very similair to the country they had left behind. Mountains and forests.

[@splodge561]

Yeah I've seen Deliverance too.

[@artasium1]

@@splodge561 I'm not sure why I found that comment so funny but you nearly had me choke to death. I read it just as I was taking a drink of tea.

[@splodge561]

@@artasium1 hey, tea drinking has its hazards

[@Colonel_Patterson]

Scotland is 1/3 of Britain's land mass with a usual 5-5.5 million population whereas England's population is growing at a crazy rate, there is no room left in a sizeable chunk of England anymore. But that's just my take, but @McJibbin be careful people make videos like this "comparison" and people watch them and think that they are 100% fact. You would need real experts working together for endless years to get any semblance or concurrence into the national psyche, and even at that, what nation would they be speaking too? The Disunited Kingdom.

[@paulharvey9149]

What a bloody irritating voice that guy has! Or is it just me?!! Ach well, it's just like the Bard said in 1786, I suppose, in his poem "To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Church: "O Wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us, tae see oorsel's as ithers see us, it wad frae mony a blunder free us, An foolish notion: What airs in dress an gait wad lae'e us, An e'en devotion! "

[@Shoomer88]

King Arthur? Seriously? This guy's been watching too many films.

[@chrissearle6176]

Scotland was under the ice caps & obviously the last place in the Isles to become habitable

[@AlwaysRightAllNight]

The whole of Britain was under ice, it was just Scotland was the last to thaw out 😂

[@Cainb420]

The guy doing this video is a warmer. The reason Scottish left scotland was the highland clearances. Can see you picking up on some of the BS as well lol

[@andyhughes5885]

' The Scottish left Scotland '! Lol

[@Yesser-Thistle73]

@@andyhughes5885 A lot of Scots were cleared from their homes and put on ships in forced Clearances . Many Scots were forced colonists on the American lands.

[@billyo54]

Jeez. That narrator is atrocious.

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

Disagree with the name Southern Uplands - much more common to call the southern part of Scotland 'the Scottish Borders' Love the earlier shot of Hadrian's Wall - its just a normal farmers stonewall for a field. Common in Wales and northern England. FFS Mel Gibson as Braveheart..... about as true to history as......

[@Linz0440]

But the southern uplands cross the Borders then Dumfries and Galloway. Southern Upland Way is the longest coast to coast path in the UK. It wouldn't be that if it only crossed the Borders.

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

@@Linz0440 ok, while that particular path is called that, I think most people would called the Scottish counties that border England as the 'Scottish Borders' for that geographical part of the UK

[@Linz0440]

@@jjsmallpiece9234 watch the video again. The area that borders England is not even half of the area covered by the southern uplands, East to West. Look at a map. The Borders local authority doesn't even cover Lockerbie.

[@charmainelamont2020]

The Bee Gees are Manx, not English.

[@glastonbury4304]

You could say Australia is an island, a continent and a country...

[@AlwaysRightAllNight]

It is too big to be an island. It is more like a sub-continent.

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

Australia is a big island

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@OneTrueScotsman I was brought up to regard Australia as an island continent... However, I shall not argue the point as you seem adamant in your proclaimations.

[@AlwaysRightAllNight]

@@brigidsingleton1596it’s either a continent or a sub-continent, but not an island

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@AlwaysRightAllNight Whatever. . . 😞

[@frankanderson3503]

Where are the Scottish Authors ? Robert Luis Stevenston Sir Walter Scott etc.

[@Yesser-Thistle73]

Scientists, artists, inventors, philosophers, musicians, composers, educators, engineers, doctors, surgeons, and very much more. Scotland has a very impressive catalogue of world famous people.

[@davidmarsden9800]

Scotland has a shorter occupation period as it was uninhabitable due to the ice age which lasted until about 12,000 years ago.

[@davidmarsden9800]

@@OneTrueScotsman Obviously.

[@JeanBeech-gc4iw]

Up north they dont give you gravy or curry on your chips unless you ask fir it so i don't know what he's on about.

[@neilbrooks5099]

Conner, best wishes for Christmas and a peaceful new year to you and your family. And of course looking forward to your videos next . You always come across as a decent person and a gentleman.

[@daiman56]

Love your Pakistan accent when quoting the words from the mythical William Wallace film.

[@jmillar71110]

😂😂

[@JimKerr-xl2jt]

The film never claimed to be factually accurate you 🤡

[@McJibbin]

wait what Edit: I was doing a scottish accent

[@TARZANswings]

Nothing mythical about the Scottish hero William Wallace, the basic storyline of the film is true wether you like it or not, talking about myths, he was also the real robin hood.

[@MaxKingsley72]

No, Glasgow isn’t connected to the Irish Sea like Edinburgh is to the North Sea

[@beardedsloth7805]

All these types of videos make me wonder how many Americans out there think Scotland only has Glasgow , Edinburgh and usually Skye

[@markdavidson9743]

Most Americans think the Uk is only England.

[@walkaboutgla]

Thats lies.. we taught England education after invention them. So how can they be older than there gods

[@Zardagbum]

Dude, there was an iceage.

[@arwelp]

That comparison of how long the countries have been inhabited is nonsense - the entire island was uninhabitable during the ice age, and only got repopulated around 12,000 years ago. Argh! King Arthur, even if he existed, was not an Anglo-Saxon - they were his enemies.

[@oz25]

20:42. What's thisbuilding? That looks like St Paul's Cathedral. X

[@Wee_Langside]

From 1451, 31 years before Columbus got to The Americas, until 1826 Scotland had either the same number of more universities than England. Not only that but Scotland was the first country in the world to provide universal education open to both boys and girls, as early as the 17th century.

[@garymacdonald7165]

The Appalachian mountains were dragged over from Scotland,during the Ice age! Thats why the Scots/Irish settled there because they new how to live in that enviroment!

[@damedusa5107]

9:51 ice age, Scotland was covered by ice.

[@damedusa5107]

@@OneTrueScotsman and? Southern England wasn’t long long before Scotland. And was accessible by land from Europe. I’m not sure how your point disputes that people settled in England before Scotland.

[@johnp8131]

When it comes to why England being settled half a million years ago and Scotland only 14,000 years ago, you probably need to look at where the ice during the ice age stopped, as it decended from the north? And Scotland would have been far less hospitable, even as the ice receded, with less oportunities for the "Hunter gatherers" etc.....

[@dirtbikerman1000]

I believe the glaciers carved the lochs too.

[@urmum3773]

@@OneTrueScotsmanThe ancient people who settled in the British Isles would most likely have come through England first either way, as that's where the land bridge was. All modern native people of the British isles (particular the welsh) have around 5-15% ancestry from an ancient people called the Western Hunter-Gatherers, who settled north western Europe following the retreat of the ice sheet of the Last Glacial Maximum.

[@malsm8892]

London has remains of Roman construction ie Walls and Temple's similar to other cities and towns.

[@Hearts_fc_on_top]

Another fact about Loch Ness is that it holds more water than all the lakes and I think rivers as well in England and wales combined and it’s so deep if you stack 4 Statue of Libertys on top of each other it will be close to the top

[@albin2232]

The UK used to be a lot bigger, but the government had to downsize it because of budgetary pressures.

[@geoffmelvin6012]

That 'history' was woeful

[@JimKerr-xl2jt]

It was written and presented (badly) by an American .

[@PiousMoltar]

Imagine your first king being called "Kenneth"

[@andrewobrien6671]

I find it hard to believe GB is the 9th biggest island. It is exagerated on world maps, or else it would not show on the globe

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

David bowie and the beatles and he clash and so many more sing clearly in their accents.

[@dirtbikerman1000]

The problem with Scotland is its full of scotts, lol not my quote. As an English man, i was travelling Europe by trainat 36 years old. 43 now. I got to my hostel in bratislava Slovakia, there was a Scottish guy at the bar who i tried to make conversation with. He was in his mid to late 40s. Instantly to my greetings i got verbally abused for being English. Only 2 and 3 days before in an irish bar in krakow Poland, i had a good drink with a Scottish bloke from Glasgow who im still friends on Facebook today. Im also friends with another guy in Scotland my age who came to England for a night out with us(he was in the army with my best mate) So its not an across the board like or dislike situation. The pr*ck at the bar in bratislava wasnt ruining my evening. I grabbed my beer, told him to enjoy his night and sat somewhere else....

[@charmainelamont2020]

There's only one T in Scots.

[@rossshepherd9836]

Mon the Scotland.

[@andrewpark3843]

Glasgow sits on the river Clyde, which runs into the Firth of Clyde. Then out to the Irish sea. Edinburgh sits at the end of the river Forth, on the Firth of Forth and the north Sea. I'm from Glasgow. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@allenwilliams1306]

There was no mass migration by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, etc. Nor were the “Celtic Tribes” displaced. Exactly as the Romans had done, they simply took over the administration of the place.

[@stuartmcivor2276]

The bigger islands are (in order): Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo (Indonesia), Madagascar, Baffin Island (Canada), Sumatra (Indonesia), Honshu (Japan), and Victoria Island (Canada)

[@glastonbury4304]

Your forgetting Australia

[@stuartmcivor2276]

@@glastonbury4304 That is not counted as an island in most lists.

[@sianb1260]

Borneo consists of three countries - Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. The latter is less populated.

[@davidmarsden9800]

@@stuartmcivor2276 It's surrounded on all sides by water which is the very definition of an island, so how does not counting it work?

[@moogoatcluck7544]

I also thought Australia was an island but apparently it's a continent due to its size. According to ChatGPT, if it were smaller it could be called an island but it didn't specify how much smaller it would need to be. I'm still confused tbh.@@davidmarsden9800

[@dscott1392]

Loved your Braveheart speech

[@dirtbikerman1000]

In an indian-welsh accent 😂

[@Yesser-Thistle73]

@@dirtbikerman1000 Can you do an authentic Scottish accent? There are hundreds.

[@tbirdparis]

Australia is also a pretty big island.

[@dscott1392]

Yeh that's what I thought....but I assume its being ruled out as it's a Continent....haven't googled it yet.....any ideas?

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

It's considered a continent due to its size. You could call the americas an island.

[@kittyjohnstone5915]

Em, last time I looked Australia was surrounded by water!

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

@@kittyjohnstone5915 everywhere is surrounded by water.

[@kittyjohnstone5915]

@@OneTrueScotsman I suppose I did miss that part - but, unlike most of the continents, it is one country, and in most illustrations one sees of ‘Australia’, there it is, being shown as a whole, as one country, surrounded by water.

[@mskatonic7240]

20:29 William the Conqueror may have built the original Tower but I think the current building dates from a few hundred years after. But it's not the oldest thing in the city. The remains of the old Roman walls nearby would be that.

[@sheronasims6783]

Cricket has never been popular in Scotland 😆

[@streaky81]

"what's this building" - those towers are just part of St Paul's, just looks weird on the image.

[@nickwhite7476]

If you don't know your King Arthur from your King Alfred then you've lost all confidence as a trusted source of information.Try a better source for your next one.

[@keithhurst2970]

Where did he get the King Arthur thing from 🤣😂🤣He's been watching too many Hollywood movies. King Arthur is mythical not real. Athelstan was the first English King. Athelstan was an Anglo-Saxon king who lived from 894 to 939. He is regarded by historians as the first King of England. Athelstan was the son of Edward the Elder and the grandson of Alfred the Great.

[@lukespooky]

this guy's voice is too annoying. At least he pronounced most of the names correctly

[@secretsymphony]

In terms of nature, it depends on what you like. There's no doubt Scotland is spectacular with its mountains and lochs, but if say, you like flatter land with skies as far as the eye can see and golden sandy beaches, East Anglia is a great place to try. The cool thing is Britain pretty much covers most tastes - unless you love boiling hot weather!

[@Funeeman]

Haggis, Mountains, and Whisky is the only things Scotland can do better than England.

[@secretsymphony]

@@Funeeman Maybe...but I'm not into all this narrow nationalism nonsense. I love this island and the traditions of all its people.

[@TARZANswings]

​@Funeeman go on then what can England do better than Scotland apart from get its self conquered all the time.

[@Funeeman]

@@TARZANswings Culture Art Music Architecture Poetry Fashion Theatre Literature The last time England was conquered was in 1066, and that was only done because of luck. You were presented with your chance for independence, but you turned yellow on voting day.

[@TARZANswings]

@Funeeman hahahahaha 😆 you must be joking,and the independence vote was about faith in the union, being the oldest country in the uk do you think that Scotland doesn't have a rich culture, architecture haven't you heard of Charles rennie mackintosh, some authors and poets, Robert louie Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns, Ian Rankin, J M Barrie, Arthur conan Doyle. Music let's see, AC/DC Malcolm and Angus Young, Bon Scott, all Scots, but I do love Brian Johnson as well, Mark knopfler of dire straits, Donovan, to name few,

[@andrewcomerford9411]

I've never heard of Loc Ness - the word is Loch. The Celtic invasion is under considerable scrutiny at the moment. Some skeletons were found at a Neolithic site in Wales, and DNA samples were taken from the remains , and compared with kids at the local Primary School. The results showed that the kids, Welsh-born, shared a lot of DNA with what could only have been their Neolithic ancestors. The tower of London was constructed as garrison, arsenal and palace, after William the Conqueror was crowned at Westminster Abbey.

[@katetorode8411]

Manderin is not the 1st language of most Chinese, there are many dialects

[@miatamags]

The big building with the dome in London is St. Paul's Cathedral.

[@Shoomer88]

Eric Claptop wrote a song called Cocaine, in-between (or possibly whilst) taking lots of cocaine.

[@paulmidsussex3409]

Going somewhere is not the same as settling somewhere and in those days people would have congregated in the most productive land and the most beneficial growing climate.

[@AquarianAgeApostle]

Languages and accents got a shout but no mention of dialects. In England there's Geordie, Scouse, Mancunian, Brummie, and cockney among others while Scottish dialects include Weegie, Doric, and Buchan Claik to name a few

[@laziojohnny79]

To be fair; he actually nailed the Scottish accent. Well from a Dutch perspective, but they say we sound like Sean Connery when we speak English, so...

[@AquarianAgeApostle]

Incidentally, many years ago when I stayed in Italy I met a fellow Scot in a crowded pub, and we both chatted for a bit. Afterwards, every single Italian I talked with was confused as to why two Scotsmen spoke to each other in Dutch as opposed to English. It was only then I realised how divergent the Scots language is to English.

[@laziojohnny79]

@@AquarianAgeApostle Still their all Germanic in origin and thus for people with a latin background I can sorta understand why to them they might sound alike.

[@AquarianAgeApostle]

@@laziojohnny79 sorry man I want to engage in good faith with you , but the whole concept of a Lazio fan from the Netherlands is beyond coincidental in light of the details of my own anecdote. The only Scots/Dutch similarity coming to mind is Kirk/kerke(sp?). I'm sure there's plenty. I'd wager that loch in Dutch resembles its Scots equivalent more so than either word does with the English 'lake'

[@laziojohnny79]

@@AquarianAgeApostle There is very little similarity other then the accent when (many) Dutch people speak English, which to some is similar to the Scottish accent, apparently. The fact I'm a Laziale is pure and utter coincedence.

[@laziojohnny79]

'loch' in Dutch would become 'meer', contrary to German where it would become 'See', and 'See' being 'zee' (sea) in Dutch and vice versa.

[@osberswgaming]

Yea, I did the history part for this video. I’d be happy to go over errors with you guys, plus I can give some perspective. Growing up in Scotland, the history curriculum has revolved heavily around the country which has made me view the history in a very one-sided manner, leading to my mentions of English invasions of Scotland, when there were in fact invasions both ways. I didn’t mention the English Colonies specifically because I was given the go-ahead by Mr. Beat really just to talk about the Island of Great Britain itself, and the union between the two countries at the time, so the colonialism part was sort of an afterthought. Also I’d like to apologise for the King Arthur bit. I meant to say King Alfred, but I wrote it down wrong in the script and it was an error that somehow got through. I take responsibility for that, though I’d say it’s clear from the context I gave that it meant Alfred. The script likely has a few errors since I was doing exams while writing it, and it was a fairly limited timeframe. Of course a huge thanks to Mr. Beat for having me, though I do feel that I could have done a better job. With that said, I feel some of you guys are kind of overreacting, so just wanted to give a bit of context. Thanks for having me lol

[@spacehopper77]

There are multiple Scottish accents, Doric, Lallans, Scotch, Buchan, Highland, Dundonian, Glesca, Shetland and the Isles etc

[@pauljohnson1664]

Shetland is a dialect, not an accent. We are Shetlanders, not Scottish.

[@aa-xg3ct]

Plastic Viking@@pauljohnson1664

[@alicemilne1444]

​@@pauljohnson1664Most of the others are dialects as well. Lallans isn't a dialect. It's the name of a literary style of writing. And Scotch is an antiquated English adjective for Scots. Even if you are a Shetlander first and foremost, you're still Scottish. My aunt, a Peterson, understood that.

[@beardedsloth7805]

Ken and they change a bit after a 20 minute drive in any direction from a city or town

[@charmainelamont2020]

@@pauljohnson1664 Shetlandic is a form of Scots.

[@AshleyCoyle-s4h]

Jk Rowling is Scottish and you can thank us for phones fridges tele penicillin the us navy the flushing toilet

[@arwelp]

Top 10 largest islands: Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, Baffin Island, Sumatra, Honshu, Victoria Island, Great Britain, Ellesmere Island.

[@squirepraggerstope3591]

The legendary King Arthur was NOT Anglo-Saxon, but a figure from BRYTHONIC (Welsh/Cornish/Strathclyde) history/folklore/myth and supposedly the sub-Roman Briton leader who in fact, fought against the Anglo-Saxons in the mid to later 5th Century. Thereby putting a temporary stop to their gradual conquest/colonisation of the former Roman lands and E coast area that later respectively became England and SE Scotland.

[@MrBulky992]

The Kingdom of England came into existence in 927. It was nothing to do with King Arthur! Charles I's supporters were *not* mainly Catholic and Charles I was not a Catholic himself either: he was an anglican and is still temembered in the calendar of the Church of England as a martyr.

[@MarjorieStoker-oj8fh]

Be off with you Scotland is a treasure but England is just as good like Wales and Ireland

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

What?

[@gordonmcgin1]

Football was played throughout the UK and Ireland. Hence the 'Home Nations'

[@AnthonyCooper-f8t]

King Arthur was a composite made up of King Ryderrach Hael of Strathclyde and the Dalriadic King Constantine who controlled the lands of Argyll. He existed before Columba forged Scotland into a single nation. The name Arthur means Dux Belorum or war leader. The Battle of Arderydd or Airdrie, to give it its modern title, was a battle fought by the Christian Arthur with the Pictish pagans led by the Druid Mydrinn known to history by the name Merlin. Merlin became a prisoner of Rydderach Hael (Arthur) at his fortress on Dumbarton Rock, the actual birthplace of St. Patrick who had, many years before, been kidnapped as a teenager by Irish raiders who sailed up the River Clyde. Rydderach Hael was the father of St. Enoch mother of St. Mungo named Kentigern by the Welsh who had fled to exile in Wales in order to avoid the pagan King Coel who wished to have him killed . He returned to Glasgow after Coel died and met Columba there. Ancient Britain or Strathclyde was the real location for the Arthurian myths that were later plagiarised by English writers as were the tales of Robin Hood that were based on the historical William Wallace.

[@andrewmcdonald6987]

Scotland is very different from England. Scotland crashed into England. That is why Scotland is so different x

[@PiousMoltar]

English people say "isle" too, it's just short for island, I'm not sure what his point was there. Ever heard of the Isle of Wight? England's most famous and largest island I think, it's a county in its own right (Although it used to be part of Hampshire, and some weirdos, including Jay Foreman apparently, dismiss the modern counties entirely and thus think it's still part of Hampshire)

[@paulhadfield7909]

yes eric clapton listen to him talk, also rod stewart,

[@Scandbro]

I hope you will make a video comparing Irland and England, and about the ockupation of northern Irland

[@williambailey344]

Really fascinating video about my country and Scotland too.😊

[@tersse]

the ice sheet cut britain in half, england wasnt under ice, mostly and scotland was, till 14000 years ago when the ice sheet retreated. this is basic history. well geography, both in a way, shows the benefit of british education back then, in the 60's to 80's, compaired to America.

[@AquarianAgeApostle]

Hey McJibbin, there's a spare room at mine when you do come to Scotland. Just for you, pal 🇺🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇲

[@itsTM]

Like England Scotland has a diverse array of accents 😂 most people assume we all speak the same because a large portion is from Glasgow, but head 10 minutes in any direction outside of Glasgow and you'll find a different accent every time. I live in the lowlands but my family originally are from the Highlands, and we more sing our words than have a harsh blunt tone. The accent is so varied I've had other Scots ask if I was English, nah just serenading you man 😂

[@ly055sco]

History part was terrible but interesting all the same.

[@tersse]

scotland dose have more natural beuity, but thats cos you cant get there, scotland is just land we havent used yet in the UK, it will soon be worth spending money to build roads, and housing in scotland, semi off grid is becomeing very popular.