Talk:How the Scots Invented the Modern World

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Date	Process	Result
October 30, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 10, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the author of the American book How the Scots Invented the Modern World is from the Midwestern United States and has no Scottish in his ancestral background?

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I have removed typically negative comments about Scotland by the 'writer' Irvine Welsh, inexplicably cited in this article as a worthy and valid contribution to the objective assessment of the subject. This individual always makes disparaging comments about 'his' country whenever an opportunity presents itself and therefore his opinion on Scotland should be treated as highly subjective and dismissed as the bigotted outpourings of a man with an ever-blunt axe to grind - especially against scotland. Furthermore, there is no hard evidence that Scots created the KKK in the USA, and notable Scotsmen played a significant role in the abolition of slavery. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.78.248.231 (talk) 00:01, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for explaining but I reviewed the sentence and I cannot agree with your assessment. First, a book review published in a major newspaper like The Guardian is notable enough to be cited in the article about the book. Secondly, Welsh makes a valid counter-point, backed up with specific examples, to Herman's approach; Herman traces the Scottish origins of many great things, but not the more insidious items of the modern world. maclean (talk) 06:16, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]