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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
lol... No problem.
You aren't stupid.. a lot of people outside the UK don't know this and as I've said before... I still don't understand how Scotland qualifies as a country.
I mean I do... it has its own government which handles internal matters however defers to London for its foreign relations. But to me that's just like a state government - federal government relationship.
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I kind of have to throw this question around back at you, just because I really have never understood this about America . . . but why is it that each state counts as being a
state and not a
country?
If you look at it logically each state has its own laws regarding practically everything, to whether gay couples can adopt or whether capital punishment is legal, and each has its own culture, dialect, beliefs . . . they actually seem far more independent from one another than Scotland/Wales are from England, because they are
made to share some of our laws (or at least so I'm led to believe).
I guess my question is how the heck do you define a state or country, and what the hell is the difference in the scheme of things? Why
isn't Texas a country, and why
isn't Scotland a state?
Sorry if it's a stupid question, but it's been bugging me for a while now.