"Whit's yer thoughts on independence?"

"Whit's du mean?"

"D'ye agree that Scotland should be independent?"

"I dinna kaen whit du means. Agree wi who?"

"Agree wi the folk campaigning for Scotland to be its ain country."

"Oh, hadna heard o yon. Best o luck ta them."
Cannae help but feel that she's probably the maist content person in Scotland rn
The encounter also highlighted that to a lot of Shetlanders, Scottish folk are "them", not "us". Another example o this is when I asked a man in Scallowa his thoughts on indy & he pointed to the ruined castle and said "Yon's whit happened the last time the Scots tried rulin us"
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