Scottish ethnicity

This article starts with a serious difficulty. The words Scot and Scottish each have two different meanings.

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• One refers to the people who live in or come from, the northern part of Britain.
• The second is that group of people who came themselves or whose ancestors came into that territory from Ireland.

Similar people to the second group came to other parts of Britain, in Wales and Cornwall (later into England) over the past 1,700 years but there, they were assimilated while their proportionately larger numbers in the north meant that they came closer to dominating the peoples who already lived there. Indeed, to the extent that Scotland is named after them, they did dominate.

Related Topics:
Wales - Cornwall - England - Scotland

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This double meaning should be borne in mind when reading the following attempt to unravel the complex of threads which forms the modern ethnic and cultural tapestry of Scotland.

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Scottish ethnicity is a term used here to describe the historical backgrounds and family roots of the first group, the native people of Scotland. It has two aspects, the genetic and the cultural.

Related Topics:
Scotland - Genetic - Cultural

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