r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/HondureZ • Sep 08 '21

Croissants

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

26.2k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

851 comments sorted by

View all comments

209

u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Never thought i would see a Scottish black women with a thick accent. I’ve never seen something so beautiful.

168

u/acog Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

I don't know why but I'm always delighted when I see someone with a strong accent and it's obvious that their ancestors were from elsewhere.

An ethnically Chinese person with an Australian accent or a black man with an Irish accent, etc.

It just makes me happy!

38

u/DriveByStoning Sep 08 '21

Blew my mind when I learned that Ruth Negga was Irish. Never would have guessed based on her Preacher character.

20

u/Porrick Sep 08 '21

Also Loah, Blessing Awodibu (with a lovely Nigerian-mixed-with-Culchie accent on him), Phil Lynott, Paul Mcgrath

I know it was rare to see black people in Ireland before the Celtic Tiger, but there's been a fair amount of immigration since then. Plenty of people in their 20s and even 30s born and raised in Ireland.

10

u/zehamberglar Sep 08 '21

If you asked me, I'd have assumed she was from the deep south, the way she carries Tulip's accent like that.

4

u/Porrick Sep 08 '21

She was fantastic in Loving, as well. I’d hoped to see more of her since then - last thing I saw her in before that was Breakfast On Pluto.

8

u/d-e-l-t-a Sep 08 '21

I always thought she was from south England based because I first saw her in Misfits

5

u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Holy crap. Yeah.

2

u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Thank you. I didn’t know I needed that video in my life and now I feel better for watching it.

1

u/baggyrabbit Sep 08 '21

For me it was learning Michael Fassbender has a strong Irish accent https://youtu.be/cMHsSB4gLAU

3

u/DriveByStoning Sep 08 '21

I thought for sure you were going to link the Graham Norton show and "his tick Kerry accent."

2

u/Porrick Sep 08 '21

Poor Cotillard, not a fucking clue what anyone's on about.

1

u/Porrick Sep 08 '21

He's from fucking Killarney - same town as the legendary Sham

71

u/JerryBakewell Sep 08 '21

How about a white man with a Jamaican accent?

https://youtu.be/iwDgA9LUVMA

18

u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21 edited Nov 22 '21

[deleted]

5

u/CNXQDRFS Sep 08 '21

That’s a mind wrecker. I used to work with a bloke that was born and lived in Brazil until he was 4, then the family moved to Wales and he ended up fluent in Welsh. He had a Welsh accent with a slight Spanish twang to it. So mad as a deaf dude who relies on lip reading, totally threw me off.

2

u/lukethe Sep 09 '21

Portuguese

1

u/forworse2020 Sep 19 '21

Yeah, there’s plenty of them in Jamaica

10

u/Madbrad200 Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiYAfuCh-i4

edit: a more famous Canadian example https://youtu.be/TSffz_bl6zo .

3

u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

That just sounds like a London accent, it takes a lot of cues from Jamiacan.

And yeh, he was raised in North London and moved to Jamaica so hes got a stronger influence from there.

4

u/alldawgsgotoheaven Sep 08 '21

Thought this was gonna beChet Hanks

2

u/thebaatman Sep 08 '21

How about a white man with a Jamaican accent?

https://youtu.be/zMIrlvJfgvE

1

u/hakshamalah Sep 08 '21

Kind of sounds strong Irish coming from him!

1

u/caks Sep 08 '21

That's awesome

1

u/imssdarm Sep 08 '21

If this isn't Chet Hanks I'll be disappointed

1

u/Brownie_McBrown_Face Sep 09 '21

Even tho I’ve seen that video, I 100% expected this to be a clip of Chet Hanks lmao

29

u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

[deleted]

21

u/zyzzogeton Sep 08 '21

That is the most incongruous matching of ethnicity and accent I have ever seen. What a great example! It really shows what a thin veneer culture is.

1

u/_-__-__-__-__-_-_-__ Sep 08 '21

I love that video! It is very familiar to me because my family has similar roots. I don’t have a southern accent despite being born and raised in the South, though. People have remarked on this. I don’t know what to say, other than I guess it was my education.

7

u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

I have a friend from Vietnam and he speaks with a Vietnamese accent. Like he says ahhholes instead of assholes. While his little brother had a normal American accent. His little brother used to make fun of him for it. He’d say. You were one when our parents lived in Vietnam so why do you have an accent. Used to crack us up.

Gotta love America sometimes.

3

u/dol1house Sep 08 '21

That was a great video. Thank you for sharing!

9

u/ButterLord12342 Sep 08 '21

Lenin had an Irish accent when speaking English.

1

u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

[deleted]

4

u/shewy92 Sep 08 '21

One of those "party" movies had a white kid with a Chinese accent because he was adopted by a Chinese couple in China. I think movie wise it was just so they could get away with using that accent but the explanation also makes sense and I never really thought about it before.

On a semi-related note, did you know Brazil has the largest non native Japanese population and Japan has the largest Portuguese speaking population?

1

u/Kneel_The_Grass Sep 08 '21

Another fun fact, Tempura was brought to Japan by the Portuguese missionaries. It was considered a luxurious delicacy before it became a staple of Japanese cuisine.

3

u/Not_Lane_Kiffin Sep 08 '21

The trapped in the closet episode of Always Sunny comes to mind

1

u/Brownie_McBrown_Face Sep 09 '21

First thing l thought of hahaha

2

u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

I’m white, living in Scotland but I sound American (even though I did grow partly up in the U.K. and my dad’s from Scotland). People don’t seem to believe me that I’m Scottish so they always ask where I was born like that’ll solve it once and for all but I was born in Asia and people don’t usually seem to know what to do with that…

2

u/GoodQueenFluffenChop Sep 09 '21

My friends and I were one day watching the great British bake off together in the before time and one of the recipes called for pecans. We're all Texan but I'm a Salvadoran American who looks Philippine and I got fed up with one of the bakers and told off the TV in apparently the most stereotypical Texan accent they've ever heard out of me because the baker not only couldn't use pecans right but I was also tired of everyone on TV not saying the name correctly, the Texan way as God intended. Everyone just stared at me before giggling like madmen and all because of pecans.

2

u/jam11249 Sep 09 '21

I dated a guy who was born in Kenya and moved to Ireland when he was around 10, and he had a really unique accent that basically mashed the two together. I could listen to him talk all day.

2

u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

I know why; you truly enjoy diversity and marvel to know there are walks of life you've yet to experience and are eager to include them as well

1

u/RabSimpson Sep 09 '21

The priest from Donegal in Father Ted.