In today's episode. I'm going to be telling you all about the quirks of Scottish people
Hello guys. How's it going welcome to my Youtube channel. My name is Shaun I am a blogger from Edinburgh in Scotland
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Tourists there are a lot of people coming from all over the world which is absolutely amazing and in fact
There's a lot of people watching my YouTube channel now from every we are interested in Scotland, and I think that's absolutely incredible amazing
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lot of people have the notions of what they think Scottish people are like and
For those of you who want to come to Scotland
For those of you thinking about it or for those of you who just want to engage scottish people in general
I am putting together this short video for you
This video is going to be kind of guide as to
What scottish people are like and that will of course help you when it comes to interacting and dealing with Scottish people?
But there are a few things about us
You should probably know just so you can kind of get your way own scottish people
Social situations you might find yourself in all that kind of stuff
I have compiled a wee list first thing. You should know about Scottish people
Is that we are very proud as Scottish people as a nation
Scots are extremely proud of who we are what we are what we have achieved as a small country for example
We will tell anybody who will listen about
Amazing scots who have ventured the world and invented amazing things and who have changed the whole entire world
through their way of thinking for their inventions and in fact
I think I could be a video in its own right scottish inventions
Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie baird, Alexander fleming. We're proud of our social makeup we're proud of the way we are as Scottish people
so what that means actually is is we don't take too kindly to people coming and
Criticizing scotland and also do not call a kilt skirt never ever ever do that and certainly please
Never ever ever call us "scotch" and if you remember those things and do not offend us
You should have a bonnie wee time in scotland that brings me neatly on to my second point
Because Scottish people despite the fact that we are very proud of scotland and being Scottish. We are also very very
Self depreciatory well that means is we like to take the piss out of ourselves
And we'll do that with a lot of frequency, and it doesn't matter in what type of company
We're in and in fact especially if we're in the company of Foreigners
We like to have a joke about ourselves as well and say we might be proud of it the good things
We've done We also like to make a lot of jokes about the things we're not so good at. Despite these jokes we will not
Appreciate them from people from elsewhere
especially from certain places
But nevertheless number three we are warm and friendly people in scotland. We are very welcoming and we are
Open we will welcome people into our house as soon as we meet them
We will tell them our life story, and we will cook them dinner people will come up and talk to you ask you
How are you doing?
Talk to you most likely first of all about the weather, so if you're from a place
That's not quite as open and friendly as that do not be surprised
When something comes up the street and start speaking to you people in glasgow by the way are particularly warm and friendly
You'll make a lot of friends in Glasgow just by walking through the streets number four. We are superstitious
I don't know how many people from around the world notice about Scottish people, but we are highly superstitious
This is something that's in our DnA
We have been known to believe in ghost stories. The loch ness monster. This is superstition
we like to believe in the
Fantasy and there's actually two very good examples of that and the royal mile and the City centre of edinburgh the statue of David hume
Midway up the Royal mail all of the kind of blue Colour on outside has been rubbed off of one of his feet on his
Talk we rub that back tool for good luck another edinburgh Royal mile
Superstition is the heart of midlothian now the heart of midlothian is literally the cobbles on
The streets of the Royal Mile have been arranged into a heart shape
This is where a toll booth once stood that toll booth represents a lot of things for edinburgh in history obviously
It's no longer there, but that's exactly what it was it was one tax collection office. You can understand
Why it was very disliked but it was also the location of the toll booth
Prison and the cells in this jail were said to be
Absolutely vile the last place prisoners would have seen before they were executed
people in edinburgh have this tradition of actually spitting in that heart if you walk past that you'll see all the time several people
Every single hour spitting in it. it's also also seen as a defiance against their thought it is and also for good luck, so
a superstitious bunch and that leads on to number five because also
Playing alongside that Scottish people are very very good and internationally famous
Storytellers, we love a story
so if all those superstitious ghost stories loch ness we romanticize about them and we build them out into big big stories and
Previously Scottish people have been well-known as storytellers
We've got some of the most famous writers of all times think of Rabbie Burns Rabbie Burns was basically a storyteller
He did it through poetry, but all stories. We love to share our story with the world
We love to get people interested in our history and our country and we do that through
Stories number six a lot of people associate scotland with being an angry bunch of people right?
We have angry Scottish people
Come on boys. Let's take them to school
That stereotype is actually probably
Misplaced the thing is about Scottish people is we are passionate and we are very very emotional
We are very passionate about things. We believe in and we are not afraid to shout our corner
This has been the case throughout Scottish history
We've always had characters, but probably misrepresented as aggressive because of that, but we're not aggressive
We are just passionate and I think that's a beautiful beautiful thing about and number seven on the list the fact that we are very
Expressive people as well so as well as being emotional and as well as being good
Storytellers were also very expressive very good at projecting ourselves through voice and through the way we just are presence
We have this way about us as scottish people, and it's not just in front of an audience a one on one
We're very expressive people we will talk to you in a very open
Frank and
Expressive way, you know we speak a lot with our hands
We will engage people with eye contact that's very very important to us Scottish people having good
Eye contact is the measure of honesty so when you come to Scotland
And we are right up in your face and talking to you very directly just remember
It's quite a normal thing in scotland and number eight on the list we are very welcoming to foreigners
Scotland is a very open country and this is something I get asked very
Very often in the comments section actually and then all with politics going on the world right now the uk obviously voted for Brexit
I think scotland is pretty unique in the context of the uk is the fact that we are so open and free mainly and warn
Foreigners and tourists for the fact is most likely you'll be very warmly welcomed with open arms
It doesn't matter where you're from
What your background is you'll be a guest in our country and we will be very proud of that fact and we will be wanting
To show you a great great time in our country
This is definitely not the truth for everyone right can't make generalizations, but Scottish people on the whole are welcoming friendly people
We love tourists. We love people coming to visit our country and to get to know more about us, so
Come on in
come and have a pint with us in the pub which brings me neatly onto the ninth point
Alcohol is definitely the way
To our hearts if you want to get us chatting if you want to know more about scotland if you want to
Just get some conversation with people go to the pub and have a drink Scottish people as a stereotype
We are known as a nation of drinkers. We love our beer
We love our whisky were very proud of the actual products that we produce an alcohol, nowadays which
Historically has always been whiskey and beer, but also what nowadays we have become very famous at making gin as well
we are a nation of alcohol Producers and
Actually consumers as well the stereotype to drinking are actually pretty true and acurate. We drink a lot
I am not a very good representation of Scottish people whenever I travel around the world
But the first thing people say to me is all your scottish
You can probably show us how to drink so I'm plied with alcohol
And they find out after two or three drinks that I am not a typical scotsman
And I let the country down and I have let the country down on Several occasions
And that brings me nicely on to the final point in Scotland
we love a good parties too come to scotland go to the bars go to the clubs and
Actually look for Scottish parties as well because we love it. It's where we socialize
It's where we meet friends and family and I'm not just talking about going to nightclubs and stuff like that if you come to scotland
Try and make sure you go to a ceilidh or another Scottish party like that
And you'll have a great time and of course you will have heard about the world-famous
Hogmanay Street party in Edinburgh, which is the New Year's Eve celebrations people come from all around the world to experience
what hogmanay is
We're very proud of what hogmanay is and we want so many people to come and join us and have a drink with us at
New Year I am really looking forward to this year's one for example.
Well equipped with some knowledge of what Scottish people are what we're like, and some of the little quirks about us, right?
So please come to Scotland
We will be the likely to see you, and I'm really glad to be sharing the Scottish culture video with you guys
I'm thinking
Of a lot of ideas of this type of video to do on my channel just to explore Scottish culture more and share more with
The world about what our we fantastic little country is about. Thanks again for watching guys
I really appreciate that it means a lot to me have a great day night or whatever time idea is wherever you are in the
World I will speak again really soon