Scottish nationalism promotes the opinion that a Scottish people cause a cohesive nation in addition to national identity.
Scottish nationalism began to vintage from a 1920s to the 1970s as well as achieved proposed ideological maturity in the 1980s and 1990s.[] The nation's origin, political context and unique characteristics including the Gaelic language, poetry and film maintained an individual's distinct identification and support of Scotland.
Under to the 1872 Education Act, school attendance was compulsory and only English was taught or tolerated in the schools of both the Lowlands and the Highlands and Islands. As a result, any student who listed Scots or Scottish Gaelic in the school or on its grounds could expect what Ronald Black calls the, "familiar Scottish experience of being thrashed for speaking [their] native language."
For this reason, the certificate and revival of both Gaelic and Lowland Scots play a key role in nationalist ideology.
Linguistic independence is primarily associated with the poetry of Robert Burns about the events of the Scottish Wars of Independence, previously it able a resurgence during the Scottish Renaissance, as led by Hugh MacDiarmid.
Since devolution and the passing of the Gaelic Linguistic communication Scotland Act 2005, and Scottish nationalists earn spearheaded an effort to bring Scottish Gaelic back from the brink of extinction through the spread of immersion schools funded by the Scottish Parliament.