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This has made it as far as the Public Petitions Committee. The official report is available here: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk...ees/petitions/or-06/pu06-0102.htm.
It concludes with an agreement that letters be sent to the Executive and some other relevant groups. Interesting to see if anything more comes from it.
Here's one quote from Dr Donald Smith of the Literature Forum for Scotland.
| Quote: | We should, as every culture does, determine priorities by establishing what is valuable and important from the perspective of the present. We have a vigorous sense that there is an emerging distinctive Scottish society that has its own values and political institutions, not least of which is Parliament. We need to ask what aspects of our literature, culture, history and languages relate vigorously and creatively to our society's needs and aspirations, but that question clearly has not been addressed or answered coherently. We can pick many little bits of the picture and say that something is happening here and not there, but we need overall coherence.
We suggest that that coherence would be defined by Scots' need, opportunity or, we might say, their right to understand the historical development of their society through its thinkers, historical background and creative writers. We are specific about considering the literary and historical side—the verbal side—of the matter, because it seems to be a distinctive and important place to begin in Scottish culture, because it has been at the core of our past and present thinking about ourselves and communication between our society and the wider world.
If there is such a thing as a specifically Scottish society, there must be such a thing as specifically Scottish culture that we can reflect on and study. We are asking whether that is being done in the most effective and accessible way for people in Scotland |
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