Analysis On Contemporary Scottish Nationalist Movement

Scotland hold a referendum on September 18th,2014, but failed in the end.This means that Scotland will remain as part of the United Kingdom, but the discussion of the Scottish nationalist movement once again become a hot. spot.Britain, as the traditional democracy country, why this separatist tendencies appear in the 21st century? And even in a referendum this is almost a legal way?Obviously, the generation of Scottish nationalism is not accidental, it is closely related to the postwar British social and economic changes, it’s a rational response to the social changes.As a member of the empire, the Scottish people enjoying the benefits of empire since the 18th century.During the period even working-class occasionally exhibited of nationalism has also been suppressed by the risk of losing welfare and free trade. However this situation with the outbreak of world war has changed.The development of Scottish industry is no longer the leading of empire economic, but become subservient to it.Economic and living standards recession caused the Scottish dissatisfaction with the government and asked to execute profit distribution.So the emergence of the Scottish nationalist movement can be seen as a kind of pursuit of self-interest.,and the government attitude to the development of the nationalist movement has also become the important factors influencing the national stability unity.In Britain, more than one group to be seen as national, such internal contain multiple national country calls for the government to take special way of governance, including freedom, power sharing, as well as the recognition of cultural diversity, the generation of Scottish nationalism is a challenge to British existing political structure.Scottish nationalist movement in the history of contemporary nationalism is a kind of typical, on the one hand is its own uniqueness and complexity, on the other hand, is that it produces in Britain in the highly developed democracy.This paper is discussed the nation and nationalism, on the basis of related concepts, the research method of the ethno-symbolism.Based on the basis of the Scottish national long history, with the development of modern British social change as a background investigation of Scottish nationalist movement development and changes.At the same time, as the different political demands of nationalist movement as a core factor, according to the different stages of development and change of the political demands as a dividing line, the development of Scottish nationalism can be divided into three parts.Respectively discusses the background of each stage the Scottish people political demands, the cause of the formation and the British government adopt the corresponding countermeasures and solutions, so as to draw the outline of a century since the evolution of the Scottish nationalist movement logic.