The Quebec and Scotland nationalist movements are two of most influential nationalist movements in the world. While Quebec’s nationalist movement is mostly based on the French language and culture, Scotland’s independence movement is based on economic aspects. These two nationalist movements though are really influential due to their referendums and their close attempts to be independent. I will be presenting how Quebec and Scotland nationalist movement emerged and as well comparing differences and similarities. Quebec’s movement emerged due to the French language, the ederalist government in Canada and ethnic labor issues. Scotland’s nationalist movement emerged due to economic variables, the creation of a Scottish Parliament and also due to ethnic and civic nationalism. French explorers founded Quebec since its creation in the 15-16th century. Quebec followed the way of life during its foundation with the Catholic Church as the head of the state and rural farm life like it was in France. After the French revolution Quebecers in the day and age as well had thoughts of rebelling and creating their own state, which was, knows as a “small French revolution”. During the 16-18th centuries the British empire landed in Quebec which created wars between both empires. This at the end led to creation of Canada in 1867 with Quebec being one of the founding members. The problem that occurred is that the French never felt like they were a part of the newly founded state, which limited their language and their self-governance. They feared that the British would rule them and they would erase their culture and especially their language. Since then Quebec nationalist movement started and is still alive today in our modern world. Throughout it’s history Quebec has had 2 referendum but have all failed. Quebec nationalism emerged due to a few reasons and one being the middle class, which rose up in the 1960’s. Quebec felt that the English Canadians disallowed the French Canadians to get certain jobs in fields and discriminated them. The English population in Quebec controlled a lot of the factories and jobs. This sparked the nationalist movement that Quebec needs to be a self-governing nation and not be controlled by the English-Canadians. The middle class who rose up supported nationalism because they felt that they did not get equal opportunity. Also well because of the language barrier that they were facing. As it says in the article “All else being equal, the fewer opportunities in the private sector, the greater the interest in nationalism” (Meadwell, 207). A lot of Quebecers did not get an opportunity in the private sector and they felt that the only way they would is if they would create their own country. The problem though is that the middle class did not vote for separation, which was, represented the PQ instead it was more the working class who really pushed nationalism. The nationalist movement in Quebec also emerged due to the French language issue. Quebec since its creation alway