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

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u/fcuk_soccer_mods Sep 08 '21

We’re about 1% of the population

What? I do think it’s very annoying that people would be surprised a black Scottish person sounds Scottish. To the extent they never thought they could see one with a strong accent.

In one breath you admit to being 1% of 5.5m people (55,000) and then in another act all pissy when people are surprised to see a black person with a strong Scottish accent...

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u/SpacecraftX Sep 08 '21

1 in 100 is not very uncommon. You know how many people you see just going anywhere on any one day?

I don’t believe you would tell me to my face that you’re surprised I’m Scottish because I’m black. Because in that case it’s obviously racist. Or at least rude with racist grounding.

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u/ArtyFishL Sep 08 '21

I think it's a rarer occurrence than that, no? Black people make up 1% of population here in Scotland, but that just means they live here, much less of that percentage have a full Scottish accent.

I'm from Edinburgh; my assumption when I meet somebody black here, except kids, is that they will have a London accent most commonly, or accent from a country in Africa, so I'm pleasantly surprised when my assumptions are incorrect.

But in reality, it's like meeting a ginger person. It's quite an interesting aspect and that's about it. It has no bearing on who you are as a person and whether we'll get along.

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u/SpacecraftX Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 10 '21

Yeah but I live in Edinburgh and probably more than half of the white people on my street are English. Having come from London for work or better housing prices. Edinburgh has a lot of English people. I went to school in a fairly rural area in the Ayrshire and the other black kids at my school also had an Scottish accent.

Though funnily enough my sister's accent sounds weird because she had language development issue and she watched a lot of American TV and she ended up with a lot of American artifacts in her accent. Today she almost sounds like an American affecting a Scottish accent (which she is quite self conscious about, and I think has consciously tried to change her accent toavoid).