[Christina32052]

Some questions about Scots:
1) Do the Scottish tend to be stubborn? I’m of Scottish descent, and whenever I’m being stubborn, my mom says it’s the ‘Scottish stubbornness’ in me.
2) What percentage of Scotsmen wear kilts? I don’t think they all do, but I was wondering.
3) How do Scots feel about becoming a separate country again? How do they feel about the English? Do they identify themselves with the clans you see tartans for in all the tourist traps?

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[Hallie21403]

1) I’ve heard of the ‘stubborn Scot’ stereotype (along with the violent/drunk/cheap Scot stereotypes), but outside of anecdotal evidence there’s no reason to believe Scots are predisposed to be stubborn. That’s like saying ‘Jews are predisposed to be stingy’.
2) Very few Scotsmen wear kilts on a regular basis. The kilt was invented in the 1700s by an Englishman. It is a modern-invented tradition associated with Highland Scots. Not all Scots are Highlanders.
3) Scotland is already a separate country. It belongs to the United Kingdom.

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[cinnamon]

1) No. Human nature is the same all over the world. 2) Walking the streets of glasgow, as i do, the only people who wear kilts are canadian tourists, who are laughed at behind their backs. Or the posers who come here for the (international) pipe band contests. 3)The politics of seperatism/independence is too vast a subject, and fraught, especially in light of european issues. I think it is definetly INCITED by vested interest groups who want to explain away their failings of responsibility upon outsiders, the mythical English. There is precious little identifying with tartans/clans. Not least because when tartan was de rigeur, it signified your feudal rank, the landowner you served, in an utterly undemocratic feudal society (property and land ownership only available to a very few aristocrats, all others being serfs). Society then was also Catholic, the Reformation changed things big time. etc., etc.. Romantic huh???

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[Brian23005]

I was born and raised in England around many Scottish people, and never found them any more stubborn than any other groups.

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