Scotland is my home even though I’ve never been there.

by MeltedWellie

30 comments
  1. It’s a neat coincidence that blood&soil has the same initials as bullshit

  2. Let them come, spend their money and live the dream. Really dont see the need to slander the yanks this much. Them alone must bring a billion pounds per year.

  3. Fuck Flamingo Land, we should build an _actual_ theme park on Loch Lomond that’s for all thes pricks haha

  4. “Can you feel the M’Ancestry? I can…I can feel down in my plums. Getting a nice, bluish hue. Getting ready to take them down to the farmer’s market.”

  5. I wonder how they’d feel about a square go with a junkie outside a One O One over a Crystal vape.

  6. We should take advantage of this to get them to invest here. Best kind of tourism – send the money but don’t visit!

  7. Guarantee they own a meter of land in the scotch highlands and have a certificate to prove it. Also get to call themselves Lord.

  8. Americans with their Blood and Soil stuff again.

  9. Nobody else just flattered by this?

    Let them fawn over us. It’s as harmless as it is humorous.

    We have a beautiful country that they WANT to try and attach themselves to – that’s not a bad thing.

  10. Here we go again. Someone going out of their way to drag American shit talking into this sub.

    Rent free!

  11. Sounds kind of like a Zionist attitude to me… ‘my ancestral home’ ‘it’s where we belong’ – what a crock of shit.

  12. German here. I don’t belong in this sub, but I just want to share my idea I got when americans say things like that:

    The colonist-american pov thinks of US-american history as something, that began with Roanoke or Jamestown or Plymouth rock and such. From our european perspective, as we are surrounded by thousands of years old stone circles, cave paintings, medieval castles – and don’t get me started what the Italians have strewn over the map! – the euro-american history is very short. The fact, that they also have ancient culture like the mississippi mounds and whatnot is something only the most educated americans even know about.

    And I think from this perceived lack of history and the few generations most US-americans lived in the US, they have a self-consciousness about roots, about the feeling where they originate from. And I think this is also something first generation immigrants feel. In a way, it is their way to seek a connection, a history, a belonging. They want to belong. They search for their historical context.

    Of course a lot of them fellas express it in a wildly retarded way if I may say so. Although there are way worse examples than this one. At first, I made fun of those fellas myself, but when I realized what desire of belonging might be hidden behind stupid expressions, I actually found myself to find it a little endearing – even flattering.

    Maybe not with german, as most americans now cherishing their german ancestry like that geometry-bearded, always angry-sounding fella just a tad bit too much, if you catch my drift, but you know what I wanna say.

  13. In the USA patriotism is cherished and flourishes everywhere. Every second house has a flag and talk about love for country is praised. But in Scotland one is discouraged from expressions of patriotic sentiment, except at football games, otherwise expect a bunch of sour face cringers will say you are embarrassing and say things about toes curling, brigadoon, Braveheart, anti-Englishness & blood and soil. Here ‘education’ is measured not by how many degrees you have but how English you sound, thus Scottishness is shameful. Faced with Scottish Americans without this shame culture many Scots can’t handle it, can’t cope with seeing what they might have become if they were psychologically healthy and not so beat down. But the three + centuries of foreign rule has bred a very powerful self-hating shame culture and that does its job keeping us compliant and servile and our resources flowing to better places where oddly patriotism is also socially acceptable.

  14. Aye, that’ll be right… well, in that case, the Playboy mansion is my home even though I’ve never been there… does that mean it’s mine now?

  15. remember americans
    light up a fag – have a cigarette and NOT shoot a gay person

  16. As a glaswegian living in Texas now, nothing irritates me more than being told someone here is Scottish too because their aunts dogs cousin once visited Scotland

  17. Serious question: I’ve worked with guys whose great great grandparents were from India and no one questioned them calling themselves “Indian”

    But when Americans with grandparents from Scotland refer to themselves as “Scottish”, everyone loses it.

    Why?

  18. Ironically, when you die and decay, what can be told of your bones geographically is where you lived. The blood that would trace your genetics will be gone quickly after you die. This person’s strontium and oxygen ratios will show that they lived in the US probably…

  19. Why are Americans so fking obsessed with ancestry? They find out their great-to-the-power-of-five grandfather was Scottish and all of a sudden they start wearing kilts 

  20. To be fair, they’re doing this in the confines of their own sad little cosplay group. Let them pretend.

  21. Just finished our Honeymoon up in Scotland and I swear every cabbie was just waiting for us to say our ancestors were from Scotland.

  22. Unpopular opinion, but the Scot’s constantly complaining about it Americans are more annoying than the Americans themselves

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