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No. I'm an American. My people came from Ireland. Waterford and County Lough. I grew up in Kearny, New Jersey at a time when Kearny was predominately Scot. I went to school with two kids who were born in Scotland and came here when they were around 10 years old. I had many friends in Kearny whose parents were born in Scotland and came here, mostly after WW2. One of my fathers best friends, a man, who like my Dad was a bricklayer, was a big tall Scot by the name of of John McKee. He's late of this world some forty years. John McKee was as big a Scot with an accent thick as blood pudding. He served in the Eighth Army , ''The Desert Rats'' of WW2 fame. He saw combat in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. John McKee had no love for the English, I can tell you that. My next door neighbors on one side of us were a lovely Scot couple, Bill and Margaret Laurie. He owned a butcher shop and my older brother worked for him in the summer. It was there that I learned what meat pies and ''bridies''were and what ''pudding'' was. On the other side of us were Andy and Joyce Lee. They were nice people. Friend I grew around Scots probably more than most Americans ever did.