cliveo-
Looking forward to the empirical evidence you have to back this statement up...
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There is a similar, if not greater trend towards anti-English behaviour in Scotland.
Only in the big cities. Where my family are from, Thurso and the north Highlands, people are very welcoming. The worst of it is around sport. don't go into the wrong pub in Glasgow if there's an England game on. They care far more about England getting beaten than about their own team winning. Atmosphere can get quite nasty. I've never experienced a similar anti scotland sentiment down here, infact I normally see support for the other home nations. Like someone said though, every country has it's thugs. Happily there's no-one on this thread making any assumptions based on nationality whatsoever. Nope, nothing.
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For the last two years I've been a director of a Scottish company, running half of the operations in England and spending most of my time here in Leeds, but spending one week in eight in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Most of my holidays for many years have been in Scotland or Ireland. I'm English born with an English accent and Irish parentage. I have never once experienced anti-English prejudice in Scotland or Ireland. I have witnessed hundreds of expressions of casual racism towards Scots and Irish by English people. There is much less anti-English feeling in Scotland than vice versa, and it constantly astonishes me that there isn't more resentment of the English in Scotland.
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William.
Malaconotus
Are Scots entirely anglo saxon now? As a distinct National group with its own history and traditions I'm not sure separating it along ethnic lines matters today but Scotland's composed of a distinct mix of Celts, Picts and Anglo Saxon roots.
I'd argue that a lot of the comments in this thread wouldn't be tolerated if made about Arabs, Germans or any other nationality but when it comes the the Scots, Irish and Welsh there's a surprising acceptance if not enthusiam for some quite insulting language and stereotypes from an English majority. Go figure.