Seen this disagreement regarding Edinburgh and how Scottish it is in terms of culture and ethnicity, was wondering peoples thoughts.

Seen this on a Instagram post about Edinburgh and much of the comments were similar to this, people arguing about how Scottish it is.

While I do agree that Edinburgh suffers from over tourism, one look at all the shite tourist shops on the Royal mile reflects this. I remember 20 years ago the shops were a bit different, more cafes and bars too, rather than the same tacky shop mirrored again. Also aware of the tartan short bread tin culture that on the surface is quite prominent in Edinburgh, but that also isn’t anything new.

Although I am sceptical of the use of “real Scotland” as something purely found in schemes and within culture found there. Ironically I’ve found schemes tend to be more diverse ethnically and culturally, more Eastern European, Asian and African cultures there. The middle class areas tend to be more “Scottish” ethnically wise. Just wanted to hear people’s opinions on this sort off discourse of which I’m seeing more of.