Scottish nationalism

Statue of William Wallace in Aberdeen. Wallace was one of the main Scottish leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

Scottish nationalism is nationalism that promotes the idea that the Scottish people form a cohesive nation and national identity. In Scotland, it has been closely linked to the cause of Scottish home rule and Scottish independence, and is also the driving ideology of the Scottish National Party, as of May 2007 the party forming the Scottish Government.^[1] It is often described as a form of civic nationalism rather than ethnic nationalism.^[2] In such circumstances, Scottish identity can be portrayed as protecting Scottish values through an autonomy from England.^[2]

The Scottish national identity persevered in the face of the Act of Union, which merged the independent kingdoms of Scotland and England into the United Kingdom, owing to the continued existence of a distinct legal system, Scots law, and distinct Scottish institutions.^[3]

Linguistic independence was an important part of the twentieth century Scottish Renaissance, associated with the nationalist impetus provided by Hugh MacDiarmid.^[4]

References

^ Harvie, Christopher (2004). Scotland and nationalism: Scottish society and politics, 1707 to the present.
^ ^a ^b Weber, Victoria. "Scottish, English, British, European Identities: A Literature Review" (PDF). Retrieved 23 May 2013.
^ G. M. Trevelyan, Ramilies and the Union with Scotland (Fonatana) p. 285-6
^ P. S. Fry/R. Mitchison, The History of Scotland (1989) p. 209

Ethnic nationalism

Africa	Acholi Afrikaner Algerian Arab Berber Canarian Congolese Egyptian Ethiopian Hutu Libyan Nigerian Sahrawi Somali Tunisian Ugandan

Asia	Arab Armenian Assamese Assyrian Azerbaijani Balkar and Karachay Baloch Bangladeshi Bengali Bodo Burmese Burmese Buddhist Chinese Circassian Dalit East Turkestani Filipino Gorkha Hindu Indian Indonesian Iranian Iraqi Japanese Jewish Kashmiri Khmer Korean Kurdish Lebanese Lezgian Malay Malaysian Hindu Manchurian Marathi Mongolian Naga Pakistani Palestinian Ryukyu Saraiki Sikh Sindhi Sinhalese Buddhist South Asian Muslim Sri Lankan Tamil Syrian Taiwanese Tamil Thai Tibetan Tripuri Turkic Turkish Vietnamese Zaza

Europe	Albanian Andalusian Armenian Asturian Austrian Azerbaijani Balkar and Karachay Basque Bavarian Bosnian Breton British Canarian Castilian Catalan Celtic Circassian Cornish Corsican Croatian Czechoslovak English Estonian Faroese Flemish Finnish French Galician German (in Austria) Georgian Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Lezgian Macedonian Moldovan Montenegrin Norwegian Occitan Polish Prussian Rhenish Romanian Russian Scandinavian Sardinian Scottish Serbian Sicilian Slavic Slovenian Soviet Spanish Swabian Turkic Turkish Ukrainian Ulster Valencian Venetian Walloon Welsh Yugoslav

North America	American Canadian Chicano Greenlandic Québécois

South America	Argentine Brazilian

Oceania	Hawaiian Māori NZ South Islander

Other	Black Christian Islamic White

Note: Forms of nationalism based primarily on ethnic groups are listed above. This does not imply that all nationalists with a given ethnicity subscribe to that form of ethnic nationalism.

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Scottish nationalism