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Old 5th November 2019, 10:27 AM   #34
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Originally Posted by Vixen View Post
That's a poor argument. So it's OK for Scots to be labelled 'German' just because there are 120m of them and only 5.6m, of you?
It depends on the circumstances. If a Chinese police officer finds a German tour bus and assumes those inside are German, but they were Scottish and a correction is made straight away, no harm done. If a Chinese state official refers to visiting Scottish dignitaries as German and then claims they are all the same anyway, then there is an issue.
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