Scottish vs. Scots

[Paul]

One wonders if this is not a sort of, "Asian / Oriental" argument? People are "Asian," Rugs are "Oriental." Are people Scottish or Scots? Are Sporrans Scots or Scottish. I tend to go with the idea that Scots are the people of the "race or heritage" Scottish are Citizens and objects.

Well technically Oriental people are Oriental - though, the Orient is just a an area within Asian (so you're being more specific) and Asia as a massive continent and contains many people of different races.
Here in Scotland we do not call people from the Far-East "Asian" - as you do as that term is mainly reserved from those with ethnics in South Asia - such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. Every continent is massive with lots of different indigenous people - which may equal to a different race.

Perhaps, if you draw a clear distinction between "Britons" and "British". Britons, after all, are the native inhabitants of the Isle of Britain - be they in England, Scotland or Wales. If you use the term "British" strictly to mean anyone who just so happens to live in Britain irrespective of their ethnicity, ancestry or national origin, then it becomes like the word "American" and simply designates a person's geographical location and political subjectitude; denoting nothing of their race, ethnicity or background.

Britons are actually those who lived in Mid-Scotland downwards... the term doesn't cover the whole of Britain. Most Britons moved to Wales and around Cornwall after being conqured and there are supposed to be very, very few of Britonic descent in Scotland and England after these invasions.