Whats the typical, stereotype like for a scottish person?

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xx_connor_uk_xx

think fat bastard after winning weight-watcher of the year, and then make him the meanest penny pincher you ever met that would sooner kill you than buy you a drink! lol all of the above is totally not true tho i have had many Scottish friends (and girlfriends) and they can be the nicest people you ever met, its just like any other denomination

sandy

All of the above are 'true stereotypes' but I have never met a scot like it.

They are very normal people, they just have an accent. Other than that theres not much to tell them apart.

Natty-Lea

Friendly, will go out of their way to help you, good sense of humour. :-)

paintball puppy

drunken gingerhaired heathen!

wchngliu

ginger hair, wears a kilt, talks in a rough accent, is drunk. though no offence to you Scots out there. didn't mean to offend you. i still think you're cool!

starla_o0

Billy Connelly! Or "GET IN MAH BELLYYYY!"

CC...x

If you are able to provide me with a feasible stereotype of an English person, specifically Mancunian, then you're probably almost there...

floss

Omigod! Is that what you lot really think? Maybe you should come up to Scotland and see for yourselves what we're like...

Swampy_Bogtrotter

Miserable, mean, drunk and grumpy!! lol

Andrew

a drunk that likes to fight -- like the fightin irish - full of pride anger resentment - also very hearty and laughable though

topdog

drunken, ginger, dolewalling tight a*se git

saxyphone!

ginger, wears A LOT of tartan, dances and answers to the name of hamish mchaggot

Pan_24

A drunken, miserly, ginger guy who sings folk songs, talks like the big yin, wears a kilt whilst chasing haggis, and is pissed off constantly...
ttfn ;o)

loveing_u_hurts

The typical stereotype of Scottish people is a myth.
By far the majority of Scots living in Scotland or Scots immigrants and Scots born descendants worldwide - DO NOT fit these stupid stereotypical claims.

always drunk innit?

sometimes, drug abusers, maybe that is because of Trainspotting!

happyliberal

plays the bagpipes while wearing a kilt, tosses cabers and eats haggis and says och aye the noo all the time

jduck1979

Strong accent..... don't get drunk (they get paralytic)...... swear alot..... get barmier as they get older (or that just could be my Uncle, who's originally from Scotland)..... hate the English, but otherwise friendly provided you don't get into the Rangers vs Celtic debate or the Catholics vs Protestants one.

LaBrat

drunken gingerhaired, distillery - owning folk singer, Wee Lassie...See Spike Milligan's poet..name of McGonagall..."the Bridge..............at Doon"

Nicola H

Someone who hates the English!

Tight

bad health

ginger hair

cutie22

"They got red pubes!" (yell it out loud in a stereotypical, thick, scottish accent)

Don_Henley1977

Think typical english chav and then give him ginger hair

Foghorn

Firstly, Scots, not Scottish.

Secondly, there is no stereotype. Scots are the same as anyone else. One gets drunks, teetolallers, Bible-bashers, agnostics etc in any society worth the name.

Scots can be of Celtic origin, or of Norse origin (from the Viking invasion) or a combination of both. Scots people can be volatile, or friendly, and, from my experience of Scotland and the Scots, friendliness outweighs volatility by ten to one.

As with any other racial group, there are divisions amongst Scots, such as Highlanders/Lowlanders, and there is a bit of tribal animosity in the environs of Glasgow relating to Rangers and Celtic football clubs. This animosity relates to the Protestant/Roman Catholic animus that is bound to be evident in a country where mutual interchange of population between the kingdoms and fiefdoms that made the old Ireland and Scotland have been going on since before the time of Christ. Importation of progressive contemporaneous ideals between cultures that have been mutually interlinked for generations have, in the past, and will continue to be so in todays environment are likely to fuel the internal societal debate within Scotland.

Scotland has been pre-eminent in the Arts within the UK in recent decades. The poetry of Edwin Muir, for example, expresses a Scots identity that is tangible to other English speakers, and the works of the late Hugh Mac Diarmuid, (especially Volume 2 of his Complete Works) posits a dialectic of massive import, and indicates an intellectual appoach of both vast knowledge and expressive capability that eclipses the bulk of English poetic output of the time. MacDiarmuids' polemic remains cogent and relevant to this day.

Musically, Scots orchestras have a resolute approach to their art, and Scots composers sucjh as John Lunn and James MacMillan lead the British scene. Older Scots musicians, such as Thea Musgrave, were similarly influential, and did much to remove the cultural hegemony of London and to facilitate the dispersal of culture to regional centres within the UK as a whole.

So, jibes against red-headed drunken warriors are de trop. The Scots can no more be stereotyped than the Irish, French, Germans or Jews (Do you know that a lot of Jews are allowed to eat bacon and pork?).

Never ask for stereotypes, unless you wish to be stereotyped yourself.

gaulde

Rude, Ignorant, hard to understand, Hates English people!!

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