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...know Scotland is the best small country in the world?” she said, more as a demand than a question. “Sure,” I responded, slightly confused. “I know...
...frank, I didn’t know much about Scotland as of three weeks ago. And so when I heard the government was sending me and three other college journalists to their country for a four-day, all-expenses paid press tour, I thought, “Where’s the catch?” And the funny thing is that there was none. The best things in life are free, after all, right...
...Scotland: The best small country in the world” just happens to be the ambitious catch phrase of the Scottish Executive, or the government that retains powers separate from the United Kingdom. As explained to me—and as is apparent at the official tourist website www.scotlandistheplace.com—the Scots are working to market their country to the world at large...
First Minister Jack W. McConnell instituted the “Fresh Talent” initiative in 2004 to attract young people to Scotland to live and work in order to calm the forever-growing paranoia of declining population and increasing age demographic. And I, as a journalist, would absorb all the factoids of Scotland beyond the stereotypical kilts, bagpipes, Scotch, haggis, sensationalist journalism, and redheads and write about them in an intricate weaving of prose for Harvard students to read...
...constant pitch of Scotland as “the place to be” culminated in a lunch with an American woman who realized she hadn’t “truly lived” until her plane landed in Edinburgh three years ago, setting off a psychosomatic reaction communicating through ESP that she had reached her destiny. Convincing? Not so sure. I still have yet to undergo such an encounter with larger powers...