Scottish People!?

Do you not find it annoying if you're on holiday and asked where your from, you say 'Scotland.' Once, I met an American and she said, 'Do you stand on hills playing bagpipes?' I was shocked. I get quite annoyed when people think that, my friend was also asked if she wrote with a quill pen!

I've had the same situation as you, i was on holiday and an English man who was living there asked where you from? i said ' Scotland ' and i don't tend to speak Scottish to people who aint because of the barrier with slang but he was saying all this to me before i even spoke to him properly.

who's ken?
do you play the bagpipes?
are you naturally a red head?
do you wear tartan kilts?

and all stuff like that, i was really angered by it, it's ok when a fellow scot does something but not an " outsider " ahhhhh it makes me angry as hell especially when i can't get a comeback for them? like something about England or where their country is, usually i'm good with comebacks too!

Aye that sounds like it would piss me off, never had to deal with that situation. They must be total idiots and should be treated as such. Tell them that you do walk the hills wearing a kilt, playing bagpipes, taking your Haggis for a walk and are best mates with Billy Connely. Talking of the Big Yin, the first time I sent the day drinking in Glasgow me an ma mates spotted Billy across the street fae us just as we got there, was a great start to the day I can tell you.

Now calm down!

We all know that Scotsmen don't stand on hills playing bagpipes.
They're far too drunk to do that.

Most of the time they're laying on top of a hill on top of their bagpipes saying things like "Och, ye be a beautiful lassie but you've got a lot of arms - and quite a big belly!"

Do not worry folks.

Comments such as these are commonplace from inferior races who know no better. As Scots we have to rise above it and sympathise that there are such low intellects amongst us.

Get mad at the tourist board. They put out this image of tartan, shortbread, bagpipes & Haggis to drag in the tourists & it helps fill up the coffers of our country, tourism being one of our major employers. So, whereas I agree with you, Trainspotting etc paints a more accurate picture, if it brings the tourists in & they want to be deluded, just let them.

I think I'd rather be represented by an image of quill pens and bagpipes than the one of smack-heads and buckfast tonic wine.

Thats not very nice. Why not just answer the questions cuz they are just curious. You should welcome americans in your country because You mainly get your money from tourism

It doesn't matter where you come FROM, wherever you go people will have mistaken ideas about your homeland. I've met a number of Scots who wonder why Canada's provinces are not called "States" because to them it's all America. I don't flip out -- I just explain the difference between Canada and the United States very politely. Just remember that most people know a great deal about the region around their home town, and then the knowledge decreases proportionately as you move further away from that centre. And if there is anything in the mass media, that image will certainly catch on.

Don't judge all Americans based on this one - I was in Georgia USA once and this raging Anti-Semite bag of bones held together by plastic surgery and sellotape asked why "y'all don't just sort out the Irish problem". I asked her if wanted 300 years of history, took another sip of red wine I could see through and ignored her - tis the only way. Crikey I lived in England for 2 years 76-77 - I was 9 and my new classmates truly thought we had no roads, no cars and lived in caves - and we only moved as far south as Manchester!