caribny posted:Tola posted:s.
Since our knowledge today indicate that Scotland don't have a great relationship with England, why were there so many people of Scottish heritage in Guyana ?
The "British" who came to the Caribbean were from the peripheral areas and were disproportionately Scottish, Irish, Welch or from the deeply rural parts of England. They weren't properly treated in the UK so they left for the colonies.
British who came were usually the second sons or the bastard son seeking to make his fortune. The Scott who came were highlanders. Lowland Scots from areas of Aberdeen were the educators and Scott elite. Actually they are the ones ( the lowlanders) who created the modern industrial world. The highlanders had to migrate or indenture themselves or take low paying jobs in the colonies as overseers, grunt soldiers etc. Most of the KKK in the US are from highland clans. My grand father was a highlander. He was a deserter from the wars in South Africa who came to Guyana.