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Culloden - and especially the arbitrary tracked-down murders which took place in its aftermath - is a good example of the genocidal attitude of the English toward the Scots, the current sad state of Scottish society can hardly be attributed to its, at most & including the later killings, 3,000 fatalities. Nor can it truly be laid in large part at the door step of England's well known openly arrogant contempt for her neighbors and criminal lack of due civility which continued unabated in Ireland well into the late 20th century.
My point is best made by the reality that over the past roughly 250 post-Culloden years no recognizable demographic group - with the arguable exception of the Jews - has the disproportionate record, in relation to its own relatively small numbers, of worthwhile contributions to humankind in virtually all fields of endeavor that the Scots enjoy.
Ignoring all of their inventions, etc. and focusing strictly on their role (30+ years after Culloden) in the establishment of America, Scots were involved far, far beyond their actual then percentage of the population as I've documented on my FR home page.
Surely, there isn't a better archetype of the heroic freedom loving expatriates Ive referred to than 1st generation Scots-American Patrick Henry?