Documentary: Born Fighting - How the Ulster Scots shaped America

This documentary follows American senator Jim Webb on a 2,000 year journey from Hadrain's Wall through the time of the Border Reivers, the Plantation of Ulster and the emigration of hundreds of thousands of Scotch-Irish settlers to north America.

These plucky, hardened people made American society what it is today and their unique values and beliefs came the mainstream US identity. Rugged individualism, clanship, generosity, suspicion of authority and a willingness to die for their believes are some of the recognisable traits of an Ulster Scot.

They took on - and held their own - against the might of the Roman Empire, the medieval English, the Irish savages of northern Ireland, the Indian tribes of the American frontier and were the driving force behind the Revolutionary War and US independence.

While many in America refer to their ethnicity as Irish-American, Italian-American, etc most of the Scotch-Irish community refer to themselves as simply 'American' with no need to hyphenate.

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[Beardman29]

I'm a fan of Jim Webb. This is a very interesting documentary on a little know part of European and American history. He talks about freedom, love of liberty, the Scotch-Irish fighting spirit, and how their values helped shape America, but there is NO mention of the antebellum Southern culture was largely elitist, violent, and cared little for Christianity and basic public education. Also, there is NO mention of how that revered culture helped establish and maintain Slavery for over 200 years.

[JustinRyanNumber1]

@Snuckdoodle the romans never took Scotland, they had to build a wall to keep them out infact.

[Snuckdoodle]

IRA!! The irish are the only nation in europe unaffected by the romans

[lookatmepleasesir]

@lookatmepleasesir *probably as much as the Aboriginal Irish and the rest of the Scots hated the English

[lookatmepleasesir]

@pele17 I've read that the Scots outnumbered the English in the plantation about 20 to 1. It makes sense seeing as they are called Ulster Scots. Most of the English in northern Ireland ended up returning to England. The Ulster Scots were unionists loyal to the crown, but they still hated the English probably as much as the Aboriginal Irish and the rest of the Scots.

[letusrise1916]

Orange Hun Cunts..

[pele17]

Interesting video...but I think he is a little off....they weren't all of Scottish origin. They consisted of both Scottish and English families who lived along the entire border of lower Scotland and northern England. In Newcastle upon tyne, England there is also a heavy presence of the border reiver descendents. I believe they are called Geordies now a days

[superraptor65]

Great upload!!!

I'm not ulster scot but the opposite I'm Irish scots(Scottish with Irish blood). Greetings to oor brothers in ulster and america!

[tarmonhill]

they have dissapeared as a race.

[ronpaulcab]

Great doc. Been looking forward to seeing it.