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In the next breath there's talk of all the South Africans and Australians in the team and the slow but steady reduction in the team's Scottishness.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025

It was this way of essentializing Scottishness which was remarkably similar to the essentializing of Africanness that goes on, or the essentializing of Indianness or Chineseness.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2018

Does he feel he has suffered in politics for his Scottishness?

From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2014

Welsh identity is linked to the Welsh language—far more than, say, Scottishness is linked to Gaelic—and the devolved government has done much to promote it.

From Economist • Aug. 7, 2014

In short, it is the Scottishness that gives the zest.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman