3mo ago

Americans are more Scottish than Scotland, apparently

America deserves to be nuked, this is my breaking point, it's irredeemable.

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This is what happens when "cultural hegemon of the world" brain collides with "23andme obsession to fill the immutable void of whiteness" brain
- I love that the 23andme crowd seem to miss the part where you don't really share much DNA with anyone older than your grandparents.
  
  Can’t let reality get in the way of some neat phrenology
- just replace the percentages past a point with "angloid mongrel"
Americans have no culture, so they must steal it from people distantly related to them.
- Sadly, it's
- type yeonmi-park](https://chapo.chat/pictrs/image/c88ba9eb-c207-4282-91e0-a9e403dcf715.png "emoji yeonmi-park")
  with ![ at the front
ah yes truly the torchbearers for the highland ways would make the name Ronald MacDonald, of the Clan MacDonald known by every man, woman and child as the Laird of Lairds.
he looks like every man, woman, and bairn I met in between Skye and Inverness.
- Doxxing Rangers fans is against the rules.
- Only nobles of the clan McDongle are allowed to wear the traditional red-on-white tartar pattern with the gilded vest
This is the problem with heritage BS. If you are not from said region, you are not that region's ethnicity, because you are not apart of that region's culture. It's that fuckin simple.
If you're from Scottish ancestry, but born and raised in New York, you're a fucking New-Yorker. At best, you are a Scottish-American New-Yorker. Your kids will just be New Yorkers, though.
- Bold take. I think it depends. I'm thinking of examples of ethnic enclaves in the US (e.g. Chinatowns) where the language and (a version of the) culture are laboriously preserved and passed down.
  For most white Americans you're bang on the money, because racism didn't corral them into those sorts of communities where they maintained and preserved their community out of a sense of necessity, defiance, etc.
  
  Those enclaves are seperate cultures from mainland China's and over time each culture will likely diverge from one another.
  Cultures are physically manifested through direct interactions between individuals. Because of that, cultures constantly shift and evolve over small increments, and physical space has a large impact on how those shifts occur. Even if concerted effort is put into making the local enclave's culture the same as mainland China's, that enclave has surrounding influences from the American culture it's inserted into, and it will thus shift differently from the mainland somewhat. The lived experience of each culture is also going to be different in various ways.
  Because of this, I think it's reasonable to state that a person born and raised in New York Chinatown is going to be culturally distinct from a person born and raised in LA Chinatown, and they both would be distinct from a person born and raised in mainland China.
  
  Yeah I was gonna say… as someone who works in a town where they pretend they’re scottish… nah.
People will say this and them complain that there arent good tacos in Scotland and “no spicy food”.
Try growing black pepper, cilantro or nutmeg in the cold soggy stony highlands.
"Hope this helps in the future when you try to gatekeep culture"
He says, as he gatekeeps culture. Fascinating specimen.
You have to read this in the
voice
- Wait a second, there's no Angus Macleod in North Kilt Town!
  Why you're not Scottish at all!
I remember watching two Americans try to eat a Scottish breakfast in Edinburgh. Stupid fucks just pushed the food around their plate and looked bemused. One of them put a tiny amount of brown sauce on their fork and touched it to the tip of their tongue to taste it before making a gagging sound as though they'd been made to taste raw sewage. I honestly wanted to hit them in the head with a brick
- scottish breakfast is when no burger
- I had to look up what a Scottish breakfast is but now I'm confused ass to why an american wouldn't readily shovel that down their gullet, like I could see not being into the black pudding, but everything else sounds delicious.
- As a local of Edinburgh, nothing more infuriating then the American tourists during the fringe and winter. Many are sound as hell but some Americans are just misery to be around. Can't imagine visiting that cursed nation
the yes true Scotsman fallacy
"I'm not Scottish" "YEAH YOU ARE"
One day Americans will learn culture doesn't run in your veins, and the people in general will understand that DNA inherently spreads through and across populations over time.
Given how long Scotland has been inhabited, it's quite substantially likely that every person on Earth has DNA from native Scots. So there you go, everyone on Earth is now "authentically Scottish".
There are a lot of factors, but after about 10,000 years, you are likely either an ancestor of all humans alive, or none.
There’s more than 5x as many people outside of Africa with African ancestry than the population of Africa, so ergo the rest of the world knows African better than Africans.
- caaaareful now, this is essentially what westoids believe...
This does support my argument that Italian Americans are the true Italians tho
- Maron, get the load of bolls on this guy!
i'd say he's wrong and extremely stupid, but there's definitely something in my blood that yearns for irn bru, so idk
- Reminded me of Cola Champagne when I tried it
  
  Tastes more syrupy to me, but yeah, i see it.
- That's normal for almost all vertebrates, it's the haemoglobin.
American exeptionalism is a hell of a drug :rick-james:
Exponential growth? Never heard of it.
Yup, definitely an American.
And yet it's Scotland that has the munchy box and not the USA.
I find it incredible that we don't have the ultimate junk food item here.
- doesn't even get any of the good treats here in the imperial core, worst empire ever
- Americans would quiver in jealousy if they saw what passes for Chinese food in Ireland
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