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  1. Scottish Traits and a Look at the Personality of Scottish People

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  1. Characteristics of the Scottish people include123:
    • Hardworking, practical, and proud of their traditions.
    • Reputation for thrift that verges on miserliness.
    • Generosity and friendliness toward travelers.
    • Strong local identity due to historical divisions.
    • Paradoxes, including being judgmental yet reticent, kind yet thrifty, and fair yet bitter.
    • Use of distinctively Scottish words and insults.
    • Support for anyone but England.
    • Aggressive accent development.
    • Annoyance about money.
    • Willingness to talk to strangers.
    • Frequent use of swearing.
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    Hardworking, practical, and proud of their traditions, the Scots have a reputation for thrift that verges on miserliness. Travelers to the country, however, often remark on the generosity and friendliness of their hosts, as well as on the vibrancy of contemporary Scottish culture.
    www.britannica.com/place/Scotland
    In earlier times mountains, rivers, and seas divided the Scottish people into self-sufficient communities that developed strong senses of local identity. This sense has been eroded by social mobility, modern transport, broadcasting, and other standardizing influences and by a general shift from rural to urban ways of life.
    www.britannica.com/place/Scotland/People
    The Scots, and our distinctively Scottish traits. What an odd bunch we are. A never-ending enigma of paradoxes, frustrations and bemusements. We’re straining at the leash to be judgemental and opinionated….yet deeply reticent and prone to caution, held back by deep-rooted fear. We’re kind, fair and ethically-led, yet thrifty, dour and bitter.
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