Cringe so hard. Grandparents on two sides were born and raised in Scotland, fought in the war, the whole deal. Yet I would never dare to call myself “scottish”.
Pro-tip: When you see something like this you can be certain that the person has been using the FamilySearch website (run by the Mormon church) and has blindly followed hints by copying from other people’s ill-researched family trees, which often contain a lot of wishful thinking.
Vomit inducing
It’s like they’re breeding dogs. Do they have show and working line USAians?
Question though, where is this from and how old is it? u/frazer4626 is 404 (deleted?) and u/bw9971 has not posts or comments.
This is turning into a circle jerk on this topic tbh.
We all agree on this topic so let’s fucking find other fish to fry.
I used to work with an American guy who told me he had bought a “Manchester Shirt”.
I asked him was it “City or Utd?” and he just goes “yeh!” 😂. Bless them.
I’ll play devils advocate – the Americans that visit Scotland spend a fortune on tourism and hit up parts of Scotland to visit most other tourists (or even Scots) don’t go to.
I had a taxi driver telling me they’re the best researched tourists as well and have a genuine passion for Scotland. She said they were always friendly as well (I’ll be honest we were ribbing them a bit too).
It seems daft to us and a bit cringy but ultimately anyone celebrating Scotland and Scottishness can’t be that bad.
Whilst I remember check out “So I married an ace murderer” for Mike Myers’ Scottish Dad character 😂
Myers also did a character that was Scottish that ran a Scottish shop in America but hated Americans 😂 “if it’s not Scottish it’s CRAP!”.
Been told I should “raise my daughter to have pride in her Scottish & Welsh roots”….by someone non-Welsh and Scottish of course.
For the record they only insisted on that because my daughter is mixes race lol
Never trust a Campbell
Yeah, I’m born Scottish but moved to the US when I was young, and it’s really awkward to say ‘im Scottish’ because people assume it’s like my great grandparent was half Scottish or something. So now I just say I grew up in the US when people ask (though now I live in Europe).
Not really. Less than 2% of Americans identify as having Scottish ancestry, and I would suspect a much small proportion go on Reddit to talk about it.
So, by very definition not the average American!
More like the average Scot to bizarrely complain about someone from America feeling a connection to Scotland.
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Cringe so hard. Grandparents on two sides were born and raised in Scotland, fought in the war, the whole deal. Yet I would never dare to call myself “scottish”.
Pro-tip: When you see something like this you can be certain that the person has been using the FamilySearch website (run by the Mormon church) and has blindly followed hints by copying from other people’s ill-researched family trees, which often contain a lot of wishful thinking.
Vomit inducing
It’s like they’re breeding dogs. Do they have show and working line USAians?
Question though, where is this from and how old is it? u/frazer4626 is 404 (deleted?) and u/bw9971 has not posts or comments.
This is turning into a circle jerk on this topic tbh.
We all agree on this topic so let’s fucking find other fish to fry.
https://preview.redd.it/phxjqjzdh43d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=672e9d4b5a0b89995d1b4bf93fa8b994a823bada
I used to work with an American guy who told me he had bought a “Manchester Shirt”.
I asked him was it “City or Utd?” and he just goes “yeh!” 😂. Bless them.
I’ll play devils advocate – the Americans that visit Scotland spend a fortune on tourism and hit up parts of Scotland to visit most other tourists (or even Scots) don’t go to.
I had a taxi driver telling me they’re the best researched tourists as well and have a genuine passion for Scotland. She said they were always friendly as well (I’ll be honest we were ribbing them a bit too).
It seems daft to us and a bit cringy but ultimately anyone celebrating Scotland and Scottishness can’t be that bad.
Whilst I remember check out “So I married an ace murderer” for Mike Myers’ Scottish Dad character 😂
Myers also did a character that was Scottish that ran a Scottish shop in America but hated Americans 😂 “if it’s not Scottish it’s CRAP!”.
Been told I should “raise my daughter to have pride in her Scottish & Welsh roots”….by someone non-Welsh and Scottish of course.
For the record they only insisted on that because my daughter is mixes race lol
Never trust a Campbell
Yeah, I’m born Scottish but moved to the US when I was young, and it’s really awkward to say ‘im Scottish’ because people assume it’s like my great grandparent was half Scottish or something. So now I just say I grew up in the US when people ask (though now I live in Europe).
Not really. Less than 2% of Americans identify as having Scottish ancestry, and I would suspect a much small proportion go on Reddit to talk about it.
So, by very definition not the average American!
More like the average Scot to bizarrely complain about someone from America feeling a connection to Scotland.