Scottish national identity

The Cross of St. Andrew, adopted as a national symbol in the late Middle Ages

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 identity, as well as a regional or local identity. Parts of Scotland, like Glasgow, the Outer Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, the northeast of Scotland and the Scottish Borders retain a strong sense of regional identity, alongside the idea of a Scottish national identity.[2]

  1. ^ "National identity | Definition of national identity in US English by Oxford Dictionaries". Archived from the original on 5 August 2017.
  2. ^ Lynch, Michael (2001). The Oxford Companion to Scottish history. Oxford University Press. pp. 504–509. ISBN 978-0-19-211696-3.