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The Scottish people or Scots (Scots: Scots fowk; Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.Historically, they emerged in the early Middle Ages from an amalgamation of two Celtic peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or Alba) in the 9th century.
2% identified themselves as 'Scottish' together with other non-British identity; 10% identified themselves with other national/ethnic identities only (neither Scottish nor British) The council areas with at least 90% of the population stating some 'Scottish' national identity were North Lanarkshire, Inverclyde, East Ayrshire and West ...
The table shows the ethnic Scottish population in the United States from 1700 to 2013. In 1700, the total population of the American colonies was 250,888 of whom 223,071 (89%) were white and 3.0% were ethnically Scottish. [28] [29] In the 2000 census, 4.8 million Americans [37] self-reported Scottish ancestry, 1.7% of the total US population.
Scottish national identity is a term referring to the sense of national identity, as embodied in the shared and characteristic culture, languages and traditions, [1] of the Scottish people. Although the various languages of Gaelic , the Scots and Scottish English are distinctive, people associate them all together as Scottish with a shared ...
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Scotland" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Scottish people; Scottish Romani and Traveller groups
Stone houses at Knap of Howar, evidence of the beginnings of demographic growth, c. 3500 BCE. At times during the last interglacial period (130,000– 70,000 BC) Europe had a climate warmer than today's, and early humans may have made their way to what is now Scotland, though archaeologists have found no traces of this.
Unlike other ethnic groups in Scotland, Scottish Highlanders preferred to migrate in communities, and remaining in larger, denser concentrations aided in the maintenance of their language and culture. The first communities of Scottish Gaels began migrating in the 1730s to Georgia, New York and the Carolinas.
Black Scottish people (also referred to as African-Scottish, Afro-Scottish, or Black Scottish) are a racial or ethnic group of Scottish who are ethnically African or Black. Used in association with black Scottish identity, the term commonly refers to Scottish of Black African and African-Caribbean descent. The group represents approximately 1.2 ...