In a recent email from the High Commissioner of Clan MacCallum-Malcolm Society of Australia and New Zealand to the President of our North American Branch, comments on the words Scottish and Scot.

"The Scots are a race, who are spread around the globe. It is the blood that flows in our veins.

To be 'Scottish' you have to be born in Scotland, and it doesn't
matter [where] your blood has come from.

If you are a Scot you are of the Race. If you are Scottish you are
from the place. And yes, you can be one without the other - or of
course you can be both."

I found it rather interesting, because I as an American born and bred would only refer to myself as one with Scottish ancestry. Wearing the kilt people will ask, are you Scottish? ( I cannot recall anyone, asking if I was a Scot.)And my reply is “Scottish ancestry, yes.” My great Uncle James Robertson a Captain with the Liverpool Kings, served in India (the Northwest Territories) for twenty years until Dunkirk. All his children were born in India. His son Brian once shared with me when he returned to Liverpool that his mates would joke with him calling him an ‘Indian’ as his British passport said he was born in India. But Brian is as British as you can get. He got in to many a fight over the comment and claimed it was what made him one tough son of a gun.