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Stereotypes about Scottish people

of the Scots they're all Ginger they all play the bagpipes some of them did yeah um sometimes I feel like they're stereotyped is quite aggressive right yeah yeah firm tone of vo...

Course: Britain and other culturesSection: Views of Scotland and Scottish peopleSubtitles: en

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guess

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of the Scots

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they're all Ginger they all play the

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bagpipes

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some of them did yeah

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um sometimes I feel like they're

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stereotyped is quite aggressive right

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yeah yeah firm tone of voice and

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um

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yeah just like passionate about things

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okay like they call a spade a spade kind

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of straight talking yeah what

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stereotypes do you know or had you heard

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of before you made friends from Scotland

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apartment

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and are they true untrue what ones do

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you get to hear from media

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and that there are a lot of drunks a lot

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of jokes about avoid people from Glasgow

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but that's that's not true either I've

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heard that one too the class goes rough

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but Billy Connolly's from Glasgow now

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yeah he's not rougher than anyone else

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on a Saturday night is there anything

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that's

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that's primarily Scottish that would

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improve English life English culture

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English people

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what would you take from Scottish

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tradition

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