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How did upper-class continental Europeans of the Napoleonic Era judge the Scots? Did they consider them European? White? Civilized or not (quite)? And did they mistakenly assume that the culture and imagery of the Highlands represented the whole country?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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