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When did the English way of life become dominant..


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I think (but i'm not sure) when industrialization and inhurbation reached the country (surely after 1749, prolly around 1800). The migration of farmers and peasants to the towns and cities, and their growing dependence from english financers and induatrials made the adopting of the english way of life quite easier.

BTW: this is the time when the legend of the tartan was created.

No clans with a particular tartan colour existed before that time: it was Robert L. Stevenson who forged (or made a document being forged) the proofs of that and spread this hoax. It was the time of the growing of nationalisms, scots needed something to focus their national feelings on: a symbol, the Tartan.

A good reading about it: The invention of Tradition edited by Eric J. Hobsbaum.

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