Have you experienced racism for being a Scot?
Sir Harry Lauder (right) didn't appear to mind being called a "Jock" judging by of his famous song "Stop yer tickling, Jock," but not everyone takes it as a joke. A British Airways pilot from Dunblane is suing the airline for racism after he was called "a Jock" and told to go back to his welfare state paid for by the English.
Douglas Maughan, from Dunblane, also claims there's a "canteen culture" of racism in which derogatory racist terms are routinely used. You'll no doubt remember the on Question Time a couple of years ago when he said of the Scots' attitude to money: "The reality is that the Scots enjoy spending it, they don't enjoy creating it which is the opposite of down in the south."
More recently — and again on Question Time — the historian Dr David Starkey as a "feeble little country" and said Robert Burns was a "deeply boring provincial poet."
So is there a racism against the Scots prevalent in the UK? Or are we just being overly sensitive? That's what we were talking about on a lively (!) Morning Extra today. Do please continue the debate here.
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