Carol Craig includes ten key 'messages' in her book, 'The Scot's Crisis of Confidence'.  I'll post one a week (app) from now on:

 

6. Another paradox is that Scotland is a country which should be vibrant, outward looking and inventive. Unlike the English who have always had the reputation for being a deeply conservative and inward looking people who venerate tradition and what they know from experience, the Scots were once internationally renowned as energetic, speculative and inventive people. If we could lift the dead-hand of some of Scotland’s restrictive values, some of this old vibrancy may bounce back.

7. The Scots are so proud of their egalitarian values that they deny the reality of modern–day Scotland. Scotland is a society which is deeply divided by class and wealth. Any outsider will tell you that Scottish society is very hierarchical and there is a distinct pecking order. Racism and bigotry are also ugly features of modern Scotland. If Scotland is to become more dynamic it must begin to face up to these problems. It must also start genuinely valuing diversity and seeing difference as something to be welcomed rather than something to be curtailed. Again one of the underlying problems here is that there is too tight and restrictive a notion of what it means to be Scottish.