Not yet - thank goodness! But a few years ago I read a report by a German reporter who writes for a very good weekly; he lives somewhere in the highlands with his British wife, and regularly gets Nazi taunts when they go out for meals etc... Might be just a local thing, but it is not unheard of, and those kinds of people will only feel justified now to strengthen their anti-foreigner activities... There are a lot of people out there who blame anything that's wrong with society on those bl**dy foreigners - not just in the UK, but in any country - and unfortunately they have just been given a boost!
Racists have been given a boost, almost tacit approval of their racism. I agree that the build-up to the recent referendum appeared to encourage the haters to hate more.
However, the Scots people are a bit different to the English (I was born and raised in England but have been Scottish for more than 4 1/2 decades). There is a long history of top quality education in Scotland going back centuries, giving the sense that 'we're all Jock Tamson's bairns', ie we are all basically equal. Somehow this seems to make the Scots rather more accepting of incomers than is so in the south of the UK. Also there are way more incomers in the south than there are here.
Anyway, I really don't think that the worry that Scotland will hate tourists will ever be an issue. People will flock to the Well, just as they have before. I just wish the architect of the upgrade had done a classier job
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