The Scottish culture is the national culture of the Scotland. It comes from a certain number of differences of with those of the other nations of the the United Kingdom, some belonging to the Acte of Union,

An aspect of the Scottish culture, little known in France but which extended has many other countries, it is the traditional dance of Scotland (Media: Scottish Country Dance Scottish dance).

The Scot preserved quite alive the tradition of the dance like activity Community, convivial, where other European people relegated their traditions to the folk row of spectacle.

The Scot as well as the Scottish diaspora in the old colonies thus continue to practice, develop, modernize, this form of dance, joined by thousands of Americans, Canadians, of Japanese and other Europeans in the clubs of Scottish dance throughout the world.

Association " Royal Scottish Country Dance Society" (RSCDS), published booklets of instructions for these dances, trains professors, and organizes advanced training courses every year. The various clubs, affiliated or not to the RSCDS, organize balls and courses.

The three currents of this tradition, they are the " country dances" , formal but convivial, " ceilidh dances" , simpler, more popular, and " Highland dances" , rigorous exercises with complex steps, generally carried out in solo. The music they are the airs of real (4/4), jigs (6/8), of strathspeys (2/4 slow and elegant), and more rarely of steps or waltz. The instruments most usually used are the accordion, the violin, the piano, and more rarely, the bagpipe.

Country dances. They are dances for 3,4,5 or seldom 6 couples in formation, square or in length. The figures are a mixture of those of the dances of court of 17th, & XVIIIe centuries, square 19th, and new figures created at the 20th century. The steps, codified by the RSCDS, are relatively simple but require a certain lightness and the precision of the ballet dancing (although only the fanatics assert this discipline). Some 12000 dances are indexed (from which less than 400 go back to before 1900), but a few hundreds only appear regularly in the programs of balls, and the dancer who voyage can thus take part easily in the balls of any club.

Ceilidhs. They are the balls of Saturday evening, of all the cities and the Scottish, popular and young universities. One practices a limited repertory of simpler dances there, by couples, in formation or round, without preoccupation with a style.