England and Scotland Compared
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Mr. Beat compares and contrasts the two most-famous and most-visited countries in the United Kingdom- England and Scotland. It's kind of amazing how the two rivals united.
Produced by Matt Beat and Beat Productions, LLC. Filmed by Matt Beat, Shannon Beat, and Beat Productions LLC. Additional footage found in the public domain or used under fair use guidelines. Music by @ElectricNeedleRoom (Mr. Beat's band) and Slenderbeats.
Thanks to @osberswgaming for collaborating with me for this!
Here's an annotated script with footnotes: docs.google.com/document/d/1R...
Sources/further reading:
www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...
www.nrscotland.gov.uk/
www.ons.gov.uk/
www.ons.gov.uk/
geographyhost.com/england-and...
Statisticsorldatlas.com/articles/major-religious-groups-in-scotland.html
www.worldatlas.com/articles/b...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland
Corrections:
8:10 Ralph meant to bring up Alfred the Great here instead of the likely made up King Arthur
8:42 We should have mentioned that Scotland also invaded England
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England and Scotland
Two bordering countries part of a larger country called the United Kingdom, a country that has been pretty influential on the world over the past 300 years or so.
Both on the island of Great Britain, the ninth-biggest island in the world.
England and Scotland are the two most well-known and visited countries in the UK, and maybe by the end of this video you’ll have an opinion about which one you think is better.
A special shout out to Ralph from Osbers Gaming, who is from Scotland, for collaborating with me for this video. He did the history portion, in case you didn’t notice. Be sure to subscribe to Osbers Gaming! It was also great to meet him in person when we were in Edinburgh last spring. Oh yeah, my family and I actually went on vacation to both England and Scotland! A lot of the footage you saw was from stuff I shot while we were there. So which is better? England or Scotland? Let me know down below. Oh, and I also have an Edinburgh and Glasgow Compared video planned in the near future, so look for that.
Which is better? Scotland or England?
Which two countries should I compare next?
Ralph wrote the history portion of the script. I fact-checked, but I clearly didn't fact-check it enough. I apologize.
Corrections:
8:10 Ralph meant to bring up Alfred the Great here instead of the likely made up King Arthur
8:42 We should have mentioned that Scotland also invaded England
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Maybe compare Vatican City and San Marino
Scotland is definitely the best. But then again I’m from there so I’m biased. Actually met you on your trip in Scotland in Edinburgh while collecting your car rental. Was very nice to meet you. Keep up the good work with these videos
🏴 SCOTLAND FOREVER 🏴
Scotland
I think it's worth mentioning that the first economists, like Adam Smith and David Hume, were born in Scotland and were a part of the Scottish Enlightenment
This is true
Fair to say Hume is known more for philosophy (these days at least) but still valid.
I definitely should have included those two. Not to mention I forgot to mention John Maynard Keynes is from England!
A bit later in time, James Clark Maxwell!?
@@ScottishRod he went to my school lol
I studied abroad in Stirling, Scotland. While there the US played England in group play for the World Cup. I was at the local pub and everyone was rooting very enthusiastically for the US. I was a little surprised and asked a local, whats up with that. He says, we have a saying around here … ABE… Anyone But England. The US went on the tie England in extra time and the pub absolutely exploded with cheer. Many pints and USA chants were had. Good times.
ESPN has two pundits who played football/soccer for Scotland and they both constantly revel in Englands failures it’s hilarious
I always knew what team were playing against England during the World Cup when I was in secondary school, because everyone would come in enthusiastically supporting that team. I don't care about football at all and I knew everyone England played.
Scotland hates England like Michigan and Ohio State hate each other.
ABE sounds about right. What a surreal experience that must have been!
Was it 2010 or 2022?
My family were immigrants to britain but i was born in england and now live in scotland. I love to hear other countriws perspectives of england and Scotland relationship
I made this video for YOU
@@iammrbeat SHUT UP MAN. YOU'RE A SHILL. PS THE CAPS DONT MEAN I'M SOME KINDA NUT JOB. JUST THE YOUGOV BS STARTING FROM 0:00 TO 0:03 RESULTED IN THE PENNY DROPPING. GLOBAL WARMING BS ETC ETC ETC. JEEEEEEEZZ!
Whilst I appreciate the inclusion of a historical segment, I do think it's a bit one sided to only mention the English invasions of Scotland and not a single Scottish invasion of England, of which there were roughly a dozen according to Wikipedia.
Sorry about that, yes what you’re saying is entirely true. If I’m being honest I wrote the section quite briskly during school hours so I wasn’t able to fit as much in as I’d have hoped. Also I didn’t want the section to run over (hence why I barely mentioned colonialism). But yea it’s unfortunate
@@osberswgamingalso the name england is of course related to the anglo saxons but the Scots and Picts invaded the inhabitants of what would become england multiple times, way before england ever invaded them.
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek this is true, sorry for not mentioning that. I guess I’ve had a bit of a biased education since I’ve lived in Scotland most of my life. Thanks for telling me these things lol
@@osberswgaming hey! don't apologise! I was just adding to the conversation, so people know. Honestly i didn't know you were scottish, my hearing is pretty bad and i didn't pick up on your accent😳 so i apologise 😂
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek I’m not Scottish nor do I have a Scottish accent, I just live there
Scotland has way more than one accent comparing Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen alone is wild. The western isles, orkney and shetland also have especially thick accents
Good point. I will bring that up in my Edinburgh vs. Glasgow vid!
Edinburgh itself has quite a few distinct accents. I like to refer to one as the ‘Watsons Accent’ as it’s traditionally spoken by people around the namesake school.
Rant aside, most countries have distinct accents from city to city, though it’d be hard to deny that England has a bit more variance
@@osberswgaming 0:00 YOUGOV. This guys a shill. Literally promoting politicians monetary perspective for £££ in his back pocket. Yip. Thats where we are in 2023. pfft
Yes and make sure that people from Glasgow are known as Weegies by the mad radges of Edinburgh.
Immerse yourself in Trainspotting for that quintessential Edinburgh sound
As a Scotsman a well informed video! Great to see Mr Beat talk about Scotland! One small thing, I wouldn’t call Cricket popular in Scotland, I think 99% of the population couldn’t name one cricket player.
I think 99% is too low.
As a scot, i can vouch
Well hop on the cricket train then! Go on! But seriously, thank you.
Scotland is too cold for cricket. England is on the borderline of being too cold for cricket itself. I think golf is the only summer sport of any popularity in Scotland.
@@danieleyre8913 It was all going so well....until you mentioned how cold it is. Mr Beat thinks we're all dying from the heat over here lol
Fun Fact, Scotland has its own (correction: criminal law) Supreme Court. The UK Supreme Court started in 2009, until then it was the House of Lords. Scotland had a proper Supreme Court first, so their court is still seperate. While the UK Supreme Court is from 2009, the building that houses it is much older. Also when i was there, there was a statue of George Washington across the street from it.
Thanks for sharing this!
Correcting the fun fact: while Scotland does have separate courts from England, the House of Lords acted as the highest court for all civil cases in the UK, including Scotland, now the Supreme Court of the UK fulfils the same role
@@jandavid5435 0:00 YOUGOV. This guys a shill.
Additionally, as another small fact, Washington’s statue here in England isn’t actually on English soil as he refused to step foot on English soil again after the Revolution - so it’s builders actually dug up soil in Virginia and shipped it to England for the statue to sit on.
@jackec6375 That is hilarious and great attention to detail.
Hey Scot here, thanks for talking about us! We have a friendly rivalry with England though some of us are bitter over perceived being dragged out of the eu which we didn’t vote for, I would like independence but I will always share brotherhood with our southern neighbours
Aw, bless You mate that's nice. I love a bit of competitiveness and banter between Our Nations, but at the end of the day We are both decended from the best of all men, and have in Our own ways both shaped the world with great authority and innovation.
That said, stop deep frying everything and get some trousers on.🏴
Not so much a perception more fact that we got dragged out but I do agree once we get Indy and rejoin EU we should still remain close and friendly w England (just not under their government)
How Sweet. I'm also Scottish and feel the complete opposite about England. I feel no "brotherhood" with our neighbours.
Good for You ThetaSigma, that'll teach the bloody English 🍻 Cheers for John Logie Baird and Mr. Dunlop by the way.
@@louisimission2153Ironic considering that Trousers is actually a Scottish word, from Trews. While the modern kilt wrap is actually an English inventions by theEnglish business man - Thomas Rawlinson and bears little relation to the actual proper traditional Scottish kilt which was worn more as a long elaborate overcoat cloak that could double up as camping equipment as it was designed more for outdoor wear.
I was in Scotland in July for my brothers wedding (We're Americans, his wifes family is Scottish), and I have to say its a beautiful country. Edinburgh and Inverness were both amazing cities to visit. Also seen Dunrobin and Cawdor Castle, and Fort George as well.
Glad you could come! :)
I agree with you.
Lucky you! Dunrobin was closed for maintenance when I visited.
@@trevinbeattie4888 0:00 YOUGOV. This guys a shill.
@iammrbeat did u visit the Worlds 1st and only boatlift the Falkirk wheel and kelpies also in Falkirk (original home of 📺 tvs John Logie Baird tested in Falkirk Town centre) near Howgate shopping mall. There's a plate on the wall
I was born in England to Scottish parents. That means everyone in England thinks I’m a Scotsman and everyone in Scotland thinks I’m an Englishman. 😂
You are blessed to be both sir 😀
You get to be British: a true Imperial! :D
(I dont get why its the inclusive term when its the face of when our countries were the colonial terror of 1/4 of the planet)
One has a unicorn as their national animal and other doesn’t
Proof Scotland is a W
Oh yes, I should have given this a mention!
England has a lion not native to England
The english also have a pretty rose as their flower, we have a thistle, which is the correct flower to choose.
@@janice506not willingly. It used to be dragon until the Normans invaded and set up a French aristocracy that still dominates Parliament, land ownership and wealth
Great video, one correction it was probably king Alfred (the great) that started the english monarchy. Not king Arthur who mostly didn't exist, and real historical figure was probably actually a Welsh king from around the 500s, who may fought against the invading Anglo-Saxons.
0:00 YOUGOV. This guys a shill. Literally promoting politicians monetary perspective for £££ in his back pocket. Yip. Thats where we are in 2023. pfft
Alfred the Great claimed to be King of the English not England, the idea of England as Kingdom was gradual process and took very long time; he also did rule all of land that became England he shared it with Danelaw Kingdoms.
King Author is likely a Myth but may have been based on a Romano-British Commander in Sub-roman Britian, who fought in the Battle of Mount Baden and defeated the Anglo-saxons.
I added the correction in the description and pinned comment. I should have fact-checked Ralph more thoroughly and I apologize for not doing so.
@@iammrbeatyea sorry for that, I did mean to say Alfred. A few people have mentioned this so I should probably release a corrective statement lol
Thanks for pronouncing Scottish Gaelic right! 🙏 so many people assume and pronounce that the Irish way. Shows your effort for research.
Hey, I'm from Scotland and have a fascination with US history. I feel like it'd be worth mentioning more inventions as many have originated from both with the TV, telephone, toilets, waterproof jackets, penicillin, colour photographs, and even the US Navy coming from Scotland! Love your channel and this video pleasantly suprised me. Great job Mr Beat!
Darn, I should have mentioned all that lol
@@osberswgaming Nah your section was my favourite! 😅
@@sirkennydalglishstand thanks so much :)
@@sirkennydalglishstandif Scottish and english people were less nationalist they could claim an unholy amount of inventions, discoveries, history, literature, film and music haha.
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerekif humans were less nationalist we could claim everything!
There's lots of famous Scots you could have listed, like you did for England.
David Tennant. Brian Cox. James McAvoy. Karen Gillan. Ewan McGregor, Sean Connery, and Alan Cumming, to name a few, have been in domestic and Hollywood movies.
0:00 YOUGOV. This guys a shill. Literally promoting politicians monetary perspective for £££ in his back pocket. Yip. Thats where we are in 2023. pfft
I haven't heard of any of those except Ewan McGregor, who I, in fact, mentioned in this video.
Forgetting Gerald Butler who played the phantom in phantom of the opera the movie?
@@iammrbeat David Tennant is very famous for his role in Doctor Who. If any of those actors you'd know, it would most likely be him. He's been in a lot of movies too.
Peter Capaldi
Fish and chips are far better in Scotland than England, won't have this slander
Nowt better than a Scottish haddock.
As a Canadian with English and Scottish decent, I’m so happy to see this video before my science test! 🇨🇦❤️🏴❤️🏴
Good luck on your test!
Hope your test goes well
0:00 YOUGOV. This guys a shill.
Scotland and Wales would be a very interesting comparison, I think in some ways they're more similar to each other than to England :)
You missed that two of the most important economists in world history came from Scotland (Adam Smith) and England (John Maynard Kenyes)
Funny story, when I was with Mr Beat in Edinburgh, he pointed to a statue that I see almost every day and said ‘woah it’s Adam Smith’, and I had no clue who that was. Can’t believe I went my entire life without knowing who he even was lol
Holy crap! I can't believe I forgot this!
Smith is a common English name btw .. so likely he’s of English stock
Very entertaining Mr Beat as someone from the UK really enjoyed it 👏
Glad you approve!
@@iammrbeat 0:00 YOUGOV. This guys a shill. Literally promoting politicians monetary perspective for £££ in his back pocket. Yip. Thats where we are in 2023. pfft
The inventions that came from Scotland is honestly unbelievable. The tv, telephone, penicillin, etc. It’s crazy.
Hi, Sir Mr Beat. I found Your channel earlier this evening, and I'm really enjoying it.
Thanks for all the effort You put in to Your videos, Its jolly good to see Your videos.
Hope You had a merry Christmas, and a happy new year to You and Your loved ones 👍
Hey Matt, think it'd be great info if you compared empires to different ones. Like Roman Empire compared to the Byzantine Empire for example.
Perhaps...
@@iammrbeat 0:00 YOUGOV. This guys a shill.
Many in England find our neighbours obsession with football “ fitbaw” highly amusing. Of course football is massively important in England but at least the English tend to participate more in other sports, cricket both codes of rugby etc. Scotland can match Brazil or Italy in its obsession of the game but never in its achievements.
Neither can England. Brazil is leagues above them. England's mid tier at best.
Scotland brought the game to Brazil and they also created the idea of the ‘passing game’. In England it was popular to just boot it up the pitch 😂 You’re welcome.
one important thing to note: being pro-remain is not a "left-leaning" position, in fact, in the previous referendum in the 80s, the vast majority of left wing organizations wanted to leave - in short, being pro-remain is a distinctly CENTRIST position, whilst being pro-brexit is associated with being distinctly right wing or left wing
This is true. You see it with Trump leaving the Trans-Pacific Partnership, this was something that Bernie was also for
Fair comment BUT it's still true that Scotland is more left leaning _in general_ (which is the point I understood the video to be making).
To an extent, though left wing support for Brexit was mostly a minority view. The Brexit vote is probably better seen through the lens of “pro-establishment” vs “antiestablishment” or even “open” vs “closed”. I think it was an event that challenged the idea of a left/right dichotomy.
We don’t live in the 80s anymore. Being pro brexit was definitely a right-wing position, and it is because of the right wing infighting (populists vs establishment torries) that the referendum even happened in the first place.
@@Derm1991 I wouldn't say it was a minority view amongst the left when Corbyn was pro-Brexit, though I agree the distinction is definitely pro-establishment vs antiestablishment.
Previewwng the next compared at the end got us so excited!!! Great vid Mr Beat!
4:21 believe me I wish we had this much snow, this must have been from 2012, which was a bit of an anomaly. Hoping for a White Christmas this year though
Ah dang. Yeah we get a white Christmas about once every five years or so.
I’m from the Canadian Rockies, and visited the Highlands of Scotland for a short time recently. They are incredible.
The difference in legal age of adulthood has nothing to do with devolution of Scottish government, the two countries have always had separate legal systems
Just a small correction, it wasn't Arthur vs the Vikings, but Alfred. Arthur (in legend) was a few hundred years earlier and was against the Anglo-saxons.
One thing to point out is that the average temperatures can vary drastically. I'm from around Inverness & southern England is damn-near tropical in comparison and a nightmare in the summer especially. Even going to the central belt of Scotland, you can feel it get drastically warmer (and the water get drastically worse compared to the highlands lol). Also the accents vary from literal town to town in Scotland as well, it's just the stereotypical Glaswegian accent that is most commonly associated with Scots
@owenhay. As an English teenager, coming north to look at potential universities, I found myself in Dundee on a bitter cold night and not enough cash for a hotel. One hotel took me in anyway. The very generous Scots were not at all the mean spirited stereotype, like the uncle in "Kidnapped" and more like my childhood hero Alan Breck Stewart from that book, looking after the youngster.
It's sickening 😢
This is true, however it can vary greatly. I work in Kent for a company with their head office in Edinburgh. Every so often someone from Scotland will come down and be caught unprepared by one of those weird weather patterns that makes it colder down here. They just assume it's always warmer.
@@sam1111979nobody from Edinburgh is coming to Kent and feeling colder lol.
@@jamesmason8436 Except of course when they do, which I have personally observed. Why would you directly contradict something someone has said on the internet, which isn't important, where there is no reason for that person to lie. And then "lol". Rudeness? Lack of social skills?
Scotland gave us a good chunk of AC/DC. Bon and the Youngs.
True. Though at their peak they had three Englishmen, including their lead singer and songwriter.
Next up: Ireland and Northern Ireland compared
I already made that video. :)
@@iammrbeat Do Sudan and South Sudan then
@@iammrbeat Oh my bad 😅
I’m up for ‘Wales and Isle of Man compared’ 😂
One thing missed was the the existence of the city of London.
For those who don’t understand, there is Greater London, the city everyone knows, them there’s the city of London chick exists within the middle of London.
It’s got it’s own governing system and financial rules that can help cover up extremely wealthy people who gain money from places they shouldn’t.
The governing structure of it is impossible to join from the outside due to needing to be part of a specific group or family.
It is one of the most backwards places on the planet. It exists exclusively to help the super wealthy get more wealth.
That deserves to be a separate, much lengthier video
One thing? This video missed many things lol, and got quite a few things wrong.
@@ms.antithesis sure, but it’s just something I get like mentioning specifically
There are also essentially zero pubs there (at least open on a Saturday) based on personal experience of a London pub crawl that had the misfortune to stray into the "City of...".
(as such, even leaving aside the economics/politics, I consider it a backwards hellscape)
I live in Central Scotland ( the area you highlighted on the map). We are not part of the metropolitan area for either Glasgow or Edinburgh. There are different definitions of what constitutes the Central Belt which is I think what' s causing the confusion - some would say it only applies to the metropolitan areas of Glasgow and Edinburgh but the map you have shown includes the more rural Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire ( where I live). Large parts of this side of the Central Belt are rural or semi-rural (and hilly as well. Scotland from the Ochil Hills ( my neck of the woods) was largely Brythonic in the Dark Ages, as was the very North of England and Wales, thus the complex evolution of the language - and it's an hugely divisive subject as to whether Scots is a language or a dialect, but there certainly are a lot of accents - even in my smallish town😅
Re King Arthur, many parts of Britain claim him , but Ive never heard him described as Saxon. We dont even know if he was real. One of the earliest references to him is Y Gododdin, a Welsh poem about the Gododdin tribe of Southern Scotland.
Surprised you didn't mention our proficiency in science and the number of inventors we have produced - James Watt, John Logie Baird, Alexander Graham Bell, to name but a few.
Give me money mr beast
Would have been a neat video to come out a few weeks ago before visiting over Thanksgiving! Learned a fair bit, nice work!
Thank you, and sorry I timed it wrong! :)
wow you’ve been watching this guys channel for over 10 years, i just found some super old old comments by you on his old videos
As a South African immigrant to England, I’ll shout out all my brothers and sisters in England and Scotland and the rest of the common wealth.
I would say the so called rivalry is quite one sided, at least nowadays. The English were professionals at pissing off other countries back in the day and Scotland probably got the worst of that. These days I think the Scottish just hold a mild resentment towards England since a lot of people in England and the rest of the world unfairly view the United Kingdom and England as interchangeable with Scotland being just a small part of “England”. Similar I imagine to how Canadians resent being lumped in with their larger North American brothers, with the added factor of a lot big decisions for the United Kingdom being made by a government overwhelmingly dominated by another country. This leads the Scots to take immense pride in forming their own distinct identity.
I'm English and for what it's worth I don't really see South Africans as immigrants. I see you as fellow Brits, who spent a few centuries in Southern Africa, and have now come back home.
It's not really that kind of resentment. I don't resent England for being a bigger noisier neighbouring country.
I despise it because it's hoarding my country's autonomy and democracy. It pretends that we in Scotland want to be in this "voluntary union" with them, but it's far from true. Even in 2014, most people born in Scotland voted to end the union, in the referendum. in 2024, that number's significantly higher.
@@OneTrueScotsman it is voluntary and the people chose to stay in the UK in 2014.
2:20
Basically, the Church of Scotland is a Reformed Presbyterian church.
Alrighty then
Many people in the UK think we Londoners are a bit snobbish, which I won't deny.
But I will admit the rest of England and Scotland has so much amazing sights and history, that when I think of Britain I imagine them more than places in London!
Some of you are but that's really just a stereotype. Most Londoners I have met and worked with are pretty humble and down to earth.
Great video but one small nitpick, the image of Julius Caesar shown around 6:30 is one of his standard bearers - not the man himself.
Thanks for continuing to make quality educational content!
Can't wait for the Edinburgh and Glasgow comparison video!!
Or Cardiff and Swansea
Going to Scotland this summer.
You're gonna love it!
Legend
I'm English and I can tell you Scotland is better.
Oh no
England also produced some of the funniest humor in the world. Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Two Ronnies, Douglas Adams, and Benny Hill, to name a few.
Heck yeah it did
One of the Two Ronnie's was Scottish!
@@garymacdonald7165 Which one, Corbett or Barker?
@@stuartaaron613 Corbett
Ugh Benny Hill.
I would list Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, Ade Edmondson & Rik Mayall, Rowan Atkinson, the late Peter Cook, Steve Coogan, and maybe even Walliams & Lucas (little Britain) before the Two Ronnie’s. Douglas Adams and Monty Python would be among the funniest though
I studied abroad in Glasgow and during the summer they had a "heat wave" where it got into the 70s (Fahrenheit, high 20s Celsius) and everyone went nuts. Fans were sold out everywhere. No one had air conditioning. And people were basically stripping down naked in the park. It was hilarious.
We had a heatwave? Must've slept through it. Was it over by lunchtime on a weekend by any chance?
@@cmcc3721 hahaha it was a whole week but it was back in 2012.
@@jessrose4301 I remember it well. 2012 London olympics. Sheer coincidence that i happened to highlight that (Scottish) episode in another reply. To a claim that the temps were becoming increasingly intolerable....i wish lol. I actually went out and bought a small fan for my PC to keep me cool while browsing back then btw. The memories....Suns oot. Guns oot
I'm a Geordie from Newcastle upon Tyne were 50 miles away from Scotland. And at one time we were under control of Scotland,
.we share some of the same words like , bairns , bonny, aye, and more so us Geordies are still very close to Scots,
We feel more tied to Scotland than the rest of Britain,..
Good video tho
Hope you had a merry Christmas and a happy New year,
You need to get out more often .. 😜
Scottish people like jordies and mackems, and most proper northerners. We hate southeners. Theyre cunts and have an accent thats almost worse than the americans.
As an Englishman, to me, Scotland is far better. England doesn't have the beautiful Highlands for example. Although England has the world famous landmark that are associated with the United Kingdom, like the Palace of Westminster, Tower Bridge, the River Thames, I've felt happier in Scotland than England. Then again, familiarity could be blinding me to its appeal
I forget, whereabouts in the UK are you based out of? Also, I'm more keen on natural beauty as well, so I hear you about Scotland. :)
I’m the opposite. I’ve lived in Scotland for most of my life but I gotta say England is overall more desirable. Then again, London is hard carrying that, and without it, Scotland clears
@iammrbeat there are two regions in England I'm very familiar with, my home town is Sutton, south west Greater London, and the location where I attended University, Bolton, north west Greater Manchester. While they're separated by roughly 180 miles, there are similarities to them. They're both close to the big city (London and Manchester in their cases) to be convenient for retail therapy amongst other things, but equally, you don't have to go far the other way to relish the escapism that comes with the countryside :) in the case of my home town, the South Downs are a great area for hiking and likewise for the area near where I went to Uni, the Pennines
@@SiVlog1989 I went through Sutton on my journey to visit every London borough. Nice place
England has some of the most beautiful countryside in the world. Suffolk especially is gorgeous and I go there as often as I can.
Scotland's also the elder country, and it has one of the oldest flags in the world, and the first country to have a national flower.
Older by about 60 years.
@@jamesmason8436order by thousands of years
Great video. I live in Edinburgh, but originally from the far north in the Highlands. Plenty of stuff that I wasn't aware of!
Mr. Beat: And maybe by the end of this video you'll have an opnio-
Me: *Scotland*
2:20 - I have to question the statement that "farming is big in both countries". Isn't the UK as a whole one of the countries with the smallest relative agricultural sectors in the world?
well there are still lots of farms to produce UK produce for consumption within UK such as british beef, chicken, pork, eggs, fruits etc
Quality over quantity
The UK was 90% self sufficient as recently as the late 80s and before various EU policies reduced its farming sector (with farmers basically being paid not to grow anything).
60% of British land is currently used for farming compared to just 9% which is 'developed' (i.e. towns, cities and roads).
Interesting fact.
Scotland at one time was connected to the usa 450 million years ago when scotland,scandinavia and america were all one continent.
Great video, as always, Mr. Beat. Do Norway vs Sweden next!
We definitely don't do cricket in Scotland. But on the whole an informative video.
Yeah he should have mentioned shinty or curling. Those are much more Scottish sports.
Cricket is played in Scotland - mainly in the Borders - and a Scot (Mike Denness) captained the England team.
That was an enjoyable video, especially to hear about the ‘rivalry’ (or auld enemy) from an outsider’s perspective. However, I do think it was a mistake not to mention the independence movement when you discussed politics. Also, as a Scot living in England, the fish and chips most definitely are not superior down sourh 😉
Great feedback. Thank you for watching
@@iammrbeat 0:00 YOUGOV. This guys a shill.
@@iammrbeatWhitby claims the best fish (haddock) and chips for Yorkshire, England. However Oban, on Scotland's west coast has probably the next best by an incredibly small margin.
Southern English cod with overdone chips is awful to my taste. I once saw a fellow Bradfordian throw them back at at the proprietor, telling them to keep their mucky worm ridden cod and refried ruined chips.
Some of the best I had were in Bruges, Belgium. The fish was on a wooden kebab stick and the chips were delicious. I discovered chips with mayonnaise from this too.
You generally get offered mushy peas in England, though these are better with vinegar to emulsify them and mint sauce mixed in, served with a good warm pork pie. These days curry sauce is more popular at fish and chip shops, either fruity or "Irish" smooth.
In Manchester they have chip shops, where fish is popular, but you also see a good selection of pies on offer. A Wigan kebab is a pie in a "barm", their word for bread cake.
My family home town of Keighley calls a bread cake a "teacake" (as opposed to a current teacake). They call a fish cake, with fish and potato slices a "scone". It is not uncommon for folk to ask for "a scone in a teacake" which would sound barmy to folk elsewhere.
@@alansmithee8831 On the other hand, as a southerner (I have to drive north to get to London) I think fat fried northern fish and chips are truly revolting.
@@peterdavy6110 A work colleague from Sheffield would have agreed. Then he came to West Yorkshire and could not believe how good they tasted. When I had a day off, about to move from Bradford, another colleague brought him, to try the fish and chips from my local fish shop. It is a matter of taste and knowing where to get them.
I read the correction in the video description but…Saying the Legendary King Arthur was an Anglo-Saxon is just Bizarre!!! It is virtually impossible to be that wrong. Did Ralph do it on purpose?
Nice to know more about the two countries. Cheers to you, sir beat!
King Arthur's lineage is something later attributed to the line of Wessex, not something they seem to have claimed at the time, and to not mention it's mythical nature and essentially pass it off as fact is pretty misleading
I’m so sorry, my original script had ‘King Alfred’. Either Mr Beat changed it or I read it wrong for the voiceover. Also yea I should have gone into that
Personally, I don't think there is enough evidence that he even existed.
@@iammrbeatCambrian Chronicles has a great video about it.
I did my dissertation on the topic and i am pretty confident there was a Roman/Celtic warlord who fought Saxons in the late 400's who inspired the works of Gildas and Nennius who are the best sources on the topic. All the fantasy stuff about King Arthur comes from French literary romanticism as well as Welsh national legend.@@iammrbeat
@@lukefleetwood7958So not a load of Uther nonsense then, to give the Bretons a reason to fight alongside the Normans to "retake" the country? I live not far from Normanton and Bretton in Yorkshire. I used to pass the site of the supposed grave of Robin Hood on the way to work. The celtic nations always paint the English as the oppressors, but the Harrying of the North gets overlooked.
One of those Bretons, also called Alan, went up to Scotland and was the ancestor of the Stewart kings, who achieved the unification of Britain as in Arthurian legend, not some English conquest.
Henry VII was a Welsh Tudor from a previous generation of royalty, that led to the marriage that brought the crowns together.
Found out I'm 2% Scottish today 🏴
That's pretty neat
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Well skin
Keep going Matt. Get that Map Men collab
It’s weird seeing Great Britain without Wales. It looks weirdly skinny.
Italian food is generally considered to be better in Scotland rather than England due to Scotland’s very large Italian community
This is very true.
So true I recently did my heritage dna & was surprised to find out I’ve 11-4% South Italian in me & im from the central belt .
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What? 😂
😂😂 England has a very large Italian community as well. Including Bedford where it is 8% of Italian heritage. Just because we don't have Tony Macaronis down here 😂
We’ve been waiting for this for a while.
I hope I delivered adequately.
Did it please you?
@@iammrbeat Yes you did.
Studied abroad in Glasgow for a semester, absolutely loved it. Reminds me a lot of Washington state.
I definitely got Seattle/Portland vibes there
Why do you Americans always want to compare places to America? Not everywhere is like America.
Would love to go to either
Go to both! :)
Go to one of them then get a train to the other. Same (sovereign) country.
Hey, I’m from Scotland
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Please do Compare Chile And Argentina
Thank you very much for educating us.
I think your list of English bands/musicians was just about the most comprehensive list I’ve ever heard. All great!
I would love to visit Scotland. I visiting England and Wales for two weeks back in 2017. Scotland warranted a whole separate trip.
I always thought that Josh Gates described them best as Scotland being England's slightly older and more inebriated brother. LOL
Scotland gets darker significantly earlier than the south of England though. Already in Glasgow it starts getting dark at 15:30 during the winter solstice
On the flip side, Scotland (at least here in the Highland) stays at least a little bit light, all night, during the summer on a clear night.
Can’t wait for more historical analysis from this channel!
finally get to see Scotland represented in this series :)
0:00 YOUGOV. This guys a shill. Literally promoting politicians monetary perspective for £££ in his back pocket. Yip. Thats where we are in 2023. pfft
Great video! I haven't been to either nation, but hope to go soon - mostly because my lineage is Scottish. And you forgot to mention that our favorite British Spy of MI-6, Sean Connery, is from Scotland. Hopefully, I'll get to visit both within the next three years. And a huge thanks for the YouGov reference. I've been using it for about 18 months now.
first of all scotland has multiple accents scotland also has several writers and such like the creator of sherlock holmes arthur conan doyle albert Einstein was inspired by a scottish scientist so for him to name only one person from scotland was insulting also there are many scottish artists garbage franz ferdinand deacon blue wet wet wet etc so again for him not to mention any was insulting
Proud Englishman here but I'm dead impressed by that backwards flowing Scottish waterfall at 22.03 in the video
Thank you for making this, as between 12/25 & 01/05 I’ll be traveling in both England & Scotland. 🏴🏴
Well as a fellow European I think both have something to give. I've been to Scotland many times and I loved it. I'm English but I have a deep respect for Scotland. I want to travel all across parts of the UK I've never been to before, before I go abroad that is. I've heard that the Japanese are infatuated with the UK. I also love Japan and Norway although I was originally born in Oman whilst my parents were working there. Norway is one of my favourite countries, although very expensive, a little too expensive for my taste but a fantastic place if you can afford it anyway!!!!
I think all English respect the Scottish generally even if the Scottish sometimes see England as overbearing. "Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young." 😅
@@scottanos9981 Yes, this rivalry is usually not strictly anti Scottish. My mum is half Scottish and I have many fond memories of visiting my late maternal grandparents in Edenborough, my Uncle lives there now. I once had a £100 note that I spent in England from Scotland, their notes are different, but you can still legally spend them in England.
No mention of Scottish independence?
It's an understatement to say how influential the UK has been to global civilization. It's one of my favorite countries for this reason, and I hope to visit it thoroughly in the future, especially Scotland, because I haven't been there yet.
April Fool's Day is only a few moths away, and I think Earth and Mars/Venus compared could be a fin way to celebrate it. Other than that, I think Greece/Italy, Athens/Rome, Germany/Austria and Vienna/Salzburg could be very interesting.
Great suggestions. And yeah, love or hate 'em, the UK has impacted us all.
Pfft. The UK never invented much, they mostly mimicked some other culture.
@@danieleyre8913 Lmao
@@urmum3773 Name one thing the UK ever came up with on its own completely in isolation from outside influences then.
@@danieleyre8913 Didn't take long to find a more dumb statement than what Obsers Gaming whatever made up in his history bit. The British have probably invented most things since the 19th century. Some relevant examples include the English language you are speaking and the computer you are using to be a moron with.
Next up: US and UK healthcare compared
UK wins
Awesome. Brilliant content. Appreciate your work on Scotland and England Britain.
You should mentions the inventions invented between Scotland and England
Hey Mr.Beat have you written any history books that i can read ???
Fish & Chips better in England? Madness. Absolute madness.
Just a note on the historical facts, king Arthur is a somewhat mythical figure in Brythonic history with the Britons being the native population of the old Roman province of Britannia, when the Anglo-Saxons arrived (or the English) they took the land of what's modern day England off the Britons, King Arthur allegedly fought against the English invaders at some point between the 5th and 6th century, long before any vikings appeared on the scene
Fair to say if he even did exist he would not like to be portrayed as an "English" king fighting vikings
Well picts are more native to Scotland britons are the ones who ended irish rule in Scotland and created alba with a United irish,picts and Briton kingdom
@@WjfhdhShshshsh yes Scotland has a very interesting history where many cultures merged into what's today's Scottish identity
@@derrenguiWhat he said about Arthur made more sense regarding Alfred the Great.
Well done. Nice collaboration.
Thanks :)
Thank you soooooo much, since long time ago I was very interested in British history and you done it very well 👏🏽
MAKE A COMPARED VIDEO ON CAPE TOWN AND JOHANNESBURG TWO FAMOUS CITY IN SOUTH AFRICA
I’m American with some Scottish ancestry. Though it was good to learn more about both constituent countries of the UK, especially what we don’t generally hear about on the surface
Thanks for watching!
I’m English and I love both countries 🏴🏴
Its melting here in the summer. Melting.
Free Scotland ❤🏴🏴
Can you compare Canadian Provinces? Why not New Brunswick and Nova Scotia?
I would love to! And that may be the best two to start with.
8:17 Would this not be King Alfred the Great ?
Yes, sorry that was a mistake in the script
Fun video. I liked it a lot.
My favorite English band is Judas Priest. Iron Maiden is a close second. I saw both of them last year, and I have tickets to see both bands next year when they come to Minnesota. They both put on quite a show, but I really enjoy Priest a little bit more.
You could do an entire episode on the people of Newcastle upon Tyne. In other words, Geordies.
At 18:45 i can feel Mr Beats inner soul of music bleed through the video 😂
I’m from England, I’m so excited to watch this video!! Thank you Mr. Beat :D
Edit: JAY FOREMAN MENTION!!!!
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Hello Ursi! 😄☺️ I am from England and I love my country, I live somewhere that I would consider to be not very nice and I would LOVE to move somewhere like Cumbria, Northumberland, Keilder Forest, The Chiltern Hills or The Cotswolds!