Culture Smart Scotland: The essential guide to customs & culture

Whilst there are certainly important differences in character between Highlanders, Lowlanders and Glaswegians, there are also national traits that are held dear by all. The typical Scottish man or woman of today may be a busy townie with the usual communications and labor-saving paraphernalia of the twenty-first century, but the simple communal life and the quiet, old-fashioned, religious ways of the tall, relaxed, slow-speaking Highlanders - their music, their Gaelic heritage, and the awe-inspiring beauty and stillness of the Highlands - are idylls profoundly embedded in the Scottish psyche.