Earlier somone pointed out in an earlier post that Gibson is a scottish name (it is in origin)My last name is Gibson which is a sept of the Clan Buchanan, of lot of the english Gibson family followed the fishing down the east coast of england, my grandparents were scottish i still have cousins who run a hotel in Inverness

I am proud of my scottish heritage, interestingly enough asian and black ethnic minorities who identify with the culture and have lived in scotland for a couple of generations are known as new scots (its a non perjorative title)
its difficult to define a culture as one thing becuase a culture is made up of diifferent strands and so means different things to different people.
however i would make one observation that while many people claim with pride their scottish ancestry and how they are half scottish I have never heard of a scottish person proudly proclaiming to be half english.
cllr