Comments | ponycub: Pet peeve!

ponycub

Pet peeve!

Jan 07, 2009 10:55

Claiming your Scottish because your great great great whomever was Scottish. you may have scottish ancestory but that does not make you scottish and does not give you the right to say "the Scot in me..." this goes for any ancestory...ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO THE COUNTRY YOU CLAIM TO BE FROM!

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cid2042 January 7 2009, 19:03:56 UTC

I completely agree. That has always pissed me off.

If were not born in the US and your parents were born in the US. You're an American. Is that so bad. Damn I hate people

searafi January 7 2009, 19:27:26 UTC

There are exceptions. I've never been to Cuba. But I'm very Cuban.

ponycub January 7 2009, 19:35:08 UTC

yes there are exceptions. However i am assuming that relatives of yours, mother, father, granparents came over from Cuba. not 10 generations ago or something. I am talking about the people who 15 generations ago someone came over from Scotland. So all the time they say "i'm scottish so i eat alot of potatoes"

searafi January 7 2009, 23:18:30 UTC

I hear you. My first real boyfriend was from Ohio. And so were his parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. Somehow he got it in his head that they were German and became obsessed with everything German. When I met him his voicemail (before cell phones) was in German first then English. I was forced to watch German film after German film (some were pretty good). He subscribed to German magazines. When I met his parents and grandparents at their home there wasn't a shred of German-ness on display.
He finally found a British lesbian to marry him so she could stay here and he could move there. He now lives in London and goes to Germany at least 4 times a year. Oh and he just graduated with a degree in German studies. A little obsessed.
I have to say he does have the big Bavarian build with the blue eyes, blond hair, hairy chest, etc. Yum.

theevilnub January 7 2009, 19:32:54 UTC

I've never been to Caucasia... but I am Caucasian.

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ponycub January 7 2009, 19:35:42 UTC

hehe nothing wrong with saying that!

bluebear2 January 7 2009, 20:58:06 UTC

A local comedian Nelson Wong used to say in his stand up act: "Are you Asian, or sometimes have a little Asian in you?"

cpratt January 7 2009, 19:36:37 UTC

It's even better when they get some fake "Celtic" tattoos, buy a kilt, and refer to potatoes as "tatties."

ponycub January 7 2009, 19:38:33 UTC

or like today say "the Scot in me won't let me spend alot of money" WTF? and this is the same person that at one point this summer thought that there were homes in Scotland in the moores and highlands or on the coast or something that you could just take over and squat in and live in!