Quote Originally Posted by seanboy View Post
Yes of course they would be,

1. the scots are made up of many differant bloodlines, scandanavian/nordic, germanic, angol saxon etc etc.
so when a newworlder says he is of scottish ethnicity he is actually made up of many ethnicities.

3. most scottish americans are made up of many, many differant ethnicities, and most who claim to be "wholly scottish" be in for a shock if they had a dna test.

4. I do not believe that being born in scotland makes you scottish nor do I believe it is whether your parents are scottish.

to be scottish you must have at least been brought up in scotland and experianced and assimilated scotlands culture, identity, dialect, people, sense of belief, ideology, sense of inward and outword perceptions, education system, world views etc etc.

this is what makes you scottish, my friend is from iceland and moved to scotland when he was 10 he is now in his late twenties and I consider him wholly scottish as he knows what it truely means to be scottish after having the above attributes assimilate and reavaluate his identity.
and as a result I conisder him scottish.

canadians with scots parents etc, are ... well canadians. !

there may be people on this forum whi disagree with me but I think I have portayed what it is to be scottish pretty well.
I think you're mixing up cultural identity with ethnicity. Mark Knopfler is from Scotland, but he is not ethnically Scottish. His father was Hungarian and his mother was English. There is a distinction between the terms that you are using to mean the same thing. Nationality and ethnicity can be two different things.