While in Australia Clarkson made disparaging remarks aimed at Gordon Brown, in February 2009, calling him a "one-eyed Scottish idiot" and accused him of lying.wiki
片目のスコット人の愚か者、と形容して顰蹙を買っている。
で、これを人種差別だという非難に対して、いや民族主義者だが、人種差別ではない、という記事
Margo MacDonald: Don't mix racists with nationalists
Published Date: 11 February 2009
By Margo MacDonald
LET'S get it straight . . . Jeremy Clarkson's description of the Prime Minister was rude and gratuitously cruel, but was it tinged with racism? Leave out the one-eyed bit, that was cruel and crass, but is it an expression of racism to call someone a "Scottish idiot"?.
If he was charged with uttering words that could incite racial violence, I imagine it would be pretty difficult to make the charge stick unless evidence could be produced to prove that he habitually denigrated Scots for being Scots, implying indirectADVERTISEMENTly or stating directly that they are stupid or unintelligent as a nation, and inferior in their accomplishments to his own
たしかに阿呆な発言だったが、国や国民が劣等だ、と言っているわけではないではないか、と。
Rude expressions of resentment against England or the English doesn't strike me as being anything other than the sometimes frustration, sometimes justified anger and sometimes envy felt by smaller countries towards a bigger neighbour. This phenomenon can be witnessed between Portugal and Spain, Norway and Sweden, Austria and Germany.
イギリスやイギリスに関して失礼なことを言う場合でも、それは人種差別というより、イギリスに対するイライラだったり、まともな怒りの表現だった、あるいは小国の嫉妬だったりする。
それと似たようなもんやないか？ というわけだろう。
実は面白かったのは、スコットランドとイギリスの関係で、
A pal of mine has just produced an academic study showing that some English people have encountered anti-English sentiment in Scotland. Much as I admire his academic achievements, I can't really say I'm surprised at his findings.
スコットランド人は反英感情がある、という論文だした学者がいるが、なことは驚くに値しない、と。
あと、
Where the traditional attitudes may be in the process of changing between Scotland and England, a fairly wide section of English society sees Scotland to be enjoying the best of both worlds at the expense of English taxpayers. It's economic and political nonsense, of course, but some of the reporting of the decisions of the Scottish Parliament by journalists based in England, and with scant knowledge of the Scotland Act, has created an anti-Scottish resentment.
逆に、イギリス人はスコットランド人がイギリス人の税金でいいとこどりしているという嫉妬がある、という。
なるほど、いろいろあるもんですな。
論題にもどると、民族主義は排他的という意味合いが強いのに対して、人種差別は優劣観というのが本質的にある。で、劣っている者を排外しようとすると民族主義と人種差別が結びつくのではないかな？
因みに、私のイメージだと愛国主義は、自分の国を愛するというだけで、他の国や国民を排外するというｋとと必ずしも結びつかない。
民族主義と性差別
