{"id":72784,"date":"2012-07-22T16:04:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T00:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17451"},"modified":"2012-07-22T16:04:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T00:04:03","slug":"the-scots-irish-as-indigenous-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/22\/the-scots-irish-as-indigenous-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scots-Irish as indigenous people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/07\/220px-Andrew_Jackson_Daguerrotype-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17452\" title=\"220px-Andrew_Jackson_Daguerrotype-crop\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/07\/220px-Andrew_Jackson_Daguerrotype-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>A fascinating comment <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/07\/the-many-americas\/comment-page-1\/#comment-144871\">below<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>In traveling across America, the Scots Irish have consistently blown my mind as far and away the most persistent and unchanging regional subculture in the country. Their family structures, religion and politics, and social lives all remain unchanged compared to the wholesale abandonment of tradition that\u2019s occurred nearly everywhere else.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unfortunately, this has a lot to do with a powerful and long-running strand of paranoia and xenophobia. I\u2019ve ridden trains through the rail towns of WV and KY and been regarded with more unprovoked hatred than anywhere else on Earth. On the other hand, when I\u2019ve been introduced to their clan-based social structures by close friends, it is a uniquely close-knit and life-affirming culture that I\u2019ve been honored to participate in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What stuck me about this comment is that <strong>it is the sort of statement you regularly see from Western anthropologists or adventure tourists in relation to indigenous colored peoples the world over.<\/strong> That is, a parochial clannish folk trying to hold onto to their traditions, albeit with the downside of being inward looking and often regressive (downside from the perspective of Westerners that is). What these people &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/wMLIqs5eyOQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating comment below:<br \/>\nIn traveling across America, the Scots Irish have consistently blown my mind as far and away the most persistent and unchanging regional subculture in the country. Their family structures, religion and politics, and social &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,95,2076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-race","category-scots-irish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72784"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72926,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72784\/revisions\/72926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}