| Comment | People marching in celebration of a battle over 300 years ago where the Protestant Dutch King defeated the forces of Catholic Ireland, to over-simplify it.
For (some) Protestant Scots whose roots lie in Ulster in Northern Ireland, and whose brethren would've fought on the winning side that day, they see it as the moment where their particular religious sect avoided subjugation under potential Catholic rule in Ulster and the wider UK. They take great pleasure in reminding everyone of it. As it happens, Catholics became the subjugated party for several centuries. These marches are essentially a means of continuing to crow about the victory and reminding everyone (read Catholics) of who had the power for several hundred years.
That said, pull a random person from the crowd and I bet you they couldn't tell you what it's about. Most seem to do it because it allows them to vent a particular dislike of a particular religious sect.
Not that it's an obviously backwards, racist, sectarian event or anything. Part of their "culture" and all that, as we're so used to hearing. |
|---|