Officially Scottish

Today I came home from class and there was a large blue envelope on my desk.  I turned it over and realized it was the 2011 Scottish Census that I had been hearing so much about.  I still think it's really weird that I am legally obligated to fill it out since I'm American (there is a £1000 fine for failure to complete it), but at the same time I feel so much more official knowing that my name will forever be written somewhere in a stack of government paperwork at the Scottish Parliament.  It's pretty similar to the United States Census (really boring and official), except that in the section for race there are about ten different types of Caucasian.  It's pretty obvious that Scottish-Caucasian is viewed as a completely separate race from Welsh, British, or Irish-Caucasian, which I think is kind of funny.  Also, there was a section on what type of English you speak at home, which included Scots.  I heard Scots spoken at the Burns Supper and it is definitely very distantly related to English.  I have been trying to listen to BBC Scotland Radio in the morning and apparently preserving Scots is becoming a really big deal, but I seriously doubt anyone who isn't Scottish would be able to pick it up.  Oh well, I'm sure my contribution to the census will be really useful to future Scottish lawmakers.