The Scottish Referendum

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The Scottish referendum
The Scottish independence referendum, 2014 was a referendum on Scottish independence that took place in Scotland on 18 September 2014. 
Scotland has voted to stay in the United Kingdom after voters decisively rejected independence. With the results in from all 32 council areas, the "No" side won with 2,001,926 votes over 1,617,989 for "Yes".
Some say that this could be the best thing to happen in Scotland, but at the same time others say that the ‘Independence’ of Scotland could crush economy and broke enterprises. The country was divided between yeses and no. The 1,617,989 people who voted no were saying that the others rejected the independence, which show that they really wanted to be just one country, and not being a part of “powers”.¹ In this time the world has it eyes in Scotland, US President Barack Obama welcomed Scots' decision to stay in the UK. "Through debate, discussion, and passionate yet peaceful deliberations, they reminded the world of Scotland's enormous contributions to the UK and the world," he said. The decision of ‘no’, demonstrate that they think in a Individualistic way, differently of collectivism, the others think that be part of the UK it was the best decision, they think that keep the alliance could help them (the country) to solve big problems and also to reach their goals. 
Most of people when talk about Scotland, automatically think in the UK.² For a lot of them this isn’t a good thing, as we talked above, they want to be only one country and this isn’t possible being part of the United Kingdom. Scotland’s First Minister talked about the Referendum. “Thank you Scotland for 1.6 million votes for Scottish independence. Our friends in the Highlands of Scotland are still to speak, so the final results aren’t in but we know that there is going to be a majority for the No campaign”. He clearly wanted that the Scots’ voted a yes for this campaign, but isn’t happen.
¹ “We don’t need to be part of UK anymore, we’re strong, moew than the british pound, bring back the Scottish pound”. Said one of the people who was there in the day of the referendum.
² “Scotland is only one country, we exist, UK ins’t just England, we need our independence”. Said a girl about.
Here we can compare both social contexts, Individualism and the Collectivism. One fight for the Satisfaction with freedom and the other fight for the network alliance, or just for the money, becouse they know that the economy could crush. The Scottish deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon described the result as "a watershed event" and said that support for independence is growing especially among Labour voters and women.
"Scotland is one of the richest countries in the world," she said advocating independence.
"More and more people are beginning to realize that 'yes' is the only opportunity in Scotland to make this immense wealth to be divided among all who live here, create more jobs and protect vital services like the NHS from the harmful effects privatization of Westminster, “ added.
Concluding, the heart wanted to say YES, but the reason said NO. Leaving aside the heart, a economist believes that the effects of Scottish independence for all Scots, among those residing in the country or not, could destroy the country.
"The world is coming together, the resources are very limited. Scotland has oil, but is running out. What's left is 50% of everything that was and is very deep. Going to be very expensive to remove this oil. Who will pay this account? ", said him. So, I’m sorry, I know that you’re SCOTTISH, but seems that your country can’t live without drinking by UK’s tits.
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MINISTER, Scotland's First. First Minister on Referendum Outcome. 2014 Available at: <https://www.scotreferendum.com/2014/09/first-minister-on-referendum-outcome/>. Accessed on 19 September In 2014.
BRAZIL, Bbc. Scotland referendum: 51% would vote for independence, says research. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/noticias/2014/09/140906_escocia_referendo_sim_lgb.shtml>. Accessed on 19 September In 2014.