Lowlands of Scotland should apologize for the Highland Clearances

I myself a highlander, unfortunately must defend the horrific acts done against us. Yet in a way they we necessary, these new breeds of sheep were making the highland lord (now land lords) very wealthy and these lord were evicting people for the sake of profit. Some of these lord did not want to evict the people, like Lord McDonald who could not afford to keep the people there was forced to do it. This was not just happening in the Scotland but all over Britain, this was a decrease in the cottage industry and people began to move to cities for employment. This was Britain workforce this is what pushed Britain's factories forward, which also pushed the country forward. This was a new age of modernity and profit and the Highland lords were not going to be left behind they were left behind then the country would crash and poverty would hit every one.As much as I would like to agree with you, brother, that's not how it happened. James the First was the absolute tyrant monarch behind the Clearances. Before he went to try to steal the Crown of England and conquer the English, he led the Clearances. He was a Presbyterian, a devout diehard one at that, thus conflict. The Highlanders were Roman Catholics, and outside of Catholicism, their main sympathy was with the Anglican Church in southern England (thus known as the Jacobites). (On a side note: Anglicanism, as we know, is not really Protestant. It's more Catholic. The origins of the church was not out of a desire for radical traditionalist change like the Presbyterian and Lutheran churches. The church of England was formed because Henry VIII was pretty peeved about the Catholic doctrine of divorce. He wanted one and so he changed it. It should be noted that Anglican was not the term right away. It was just the Church of Henry VIII, who still consider himself a Catholic. Anglicans also believe in priesthood and confession.)Now, modernity is a very subjective term, bro. Is everything that's modern necessarily good? Great Britain is one of the many countries with weapons of mass destruction, and not too long ago, Scotland (because of Tony Blair), along with Denmark and the USA was involved in a very brutal invasion of Iraq (which did not have weapons of mass destruction). In this age of computers, do you think people who work in office clerk kind of jobs all day are really happy with themselves? You're talking about something that came as a result of imperialism. All these corporate minions are just unwinding the spoils of looting. The majority of the folks who work in these offices are white people and many them are racist and have grumpy attitudes.http://upload.wikimedia.org...http://www.washingtontimes.com...Not to mention the Lowlands of Scotland and Scandinavia lead the world in high taxes, in many cases being thies to the established state churches (favoritism and corruption, big times).You say this is worse then Hitler and Mussolini, well I disagree. Because they singled out a group of people and killed them, it was genocide. The Highland and lowland lords did not round these people up and kill them they just did what was necessary, for them to get profit. The potato famine killed thousands of Irish men women and children, but in Scotland the death toll was in the hundreds. this is because in Scotland the better off helped them in their time of need while in Ireland the better of could care less this is partly Sir Walter Scott's doing for in his novels he praised the Highlander, and now the praised Highlander was endangered so they wanted to help.No offense, bud, and I don't mean this as an insult: that sounds like something a puritanical Klan member would say. I know you don't think of it that way, but that seems to be a Klan belief. Hitler and Mussolini didn't invade a continent, loot from it, and try to enslave its people a few centuries prior, like the Brits and Danes did. The KKK was purely a deceitful organization at its best. Hitler and Mussolini came from countries angry at Allied mistreatment. They did have a right to be angry and try to rise their country up. Now, what you say about Scottish Highlands improvement in the standard of living -- that might have come from English aid. England is one of the many countries that donates a lot to international aid and relief funds, with many offices in London and Bristol. England is a very giving country. But the Lowlanders weren't helping them. They were launching ruthless wars. They were extremely racist against the Highlanders too. The Potato famine was an act of greed on the Lowlander's part. They tried to steal potatoes to enrich the people live in the Lowlands and in cities like Glasgow, Edinburgh, Yorkshire, and Liverpool. Meanwhile, relief efforts to help the Irish were started in London.Your argument is that the Lowlanders should apologise to the Highlanders, but why if the same thing was done to the lowlanders by the Highlanders. If anyone should apologise it should be the lords who did it. Unfortunately they are dead so it cannot be done.What did the Highlanders do? They were an honest and innocent people that minded their own business. They've had to put up with centuries of oppression, from the Anglo-Saxon invaders, the Danish, and the Lowland Scots. The Highlander history is rough, much like Scotland.Also many Scots not only emigrated because of the clearances but because of the poor working conditions, pay, and living conditions.Every country goes through times of crisis. But in many cases many Highlanders left for Canada because of the attempted expelling. The Highland clearance were more like the Trail of Tears. It was a policy of expulsion. A brutal one at that.On another subject, Highland Scots, along with the English, Welsh and Irish were subject to slavery at British hands. It's unfair to say that just black people were subjected to this. Oliver Cromwell (who was a Midlander by the way, with the Lowland Scots being his allies) also led a vicious invasion of Ireland in order to use the Irish for testing ground as slaves, raping their women at every given chance.http://www.globalresearch.ca...A Midlander he was, not a southerner.Before I close my argument for this round, I would love to thank my opponent for his opinion. You put up quite an argument. Don't take my argument as personal. I know my opinions sound harsh and cold, but I don't mean it against you. I respect your opinion, but I just can't relate or sympathize with it, partially because I'm Hispanic and historically we've been subjected to Scots-Irish (Lowland Scots/northern English) racism in the Americas. Nevertheless, great argument and I look forward to your next round. Good sources too. ;)