The thing is with Scotland, visitors want to see the ‘real highlands’ or ‘real Scotland’. What they want is empty landscapes. The reason these landscapes are empty is that people were cleared. The ‘real’ Scotland visitors yearn for is an invention. It’s not romantic, it’s a symbol of oppression.
Beautiful! Crazy to think that once upon a time, those hills and winding landscapes would have been flooded with trees
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The thing is with Scotland, visitors want to see the ‘real highlands’ or ‘real Scotland’. What they want is empty landscapes. The reason these landscapes are empty is that people were cleared. The ‘real’ Scotland visitors yearn for is an invention. It’s not romantic, it’s a symbol of oppression.
Beautiful! Crazy to think that once upon a time, those hills and winding landscapes would have been flooded with trees
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