gents - melmothw is totally wrong about what I meant - I was referring to the way people used to hear a SA accent and assume they were all pro-apartheid Afrikaners
Many Scots, especially those who live in England - will be tarred with the same brush as the Nats N of the border - unfair of course but sort of understandable
I have a US colleague who used to wear a CND badge when visiting the UK during the DoubleYah years - not many people in the USA knew what it was but it sure got him a friendlier reaction in London