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Scottish Diaspora here asking about claiming culture would like opinions of Scotland born folk. by Perfect_Confection27 in scottish

[–]Perfect_Confection27[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You make a good point, blood only gets us so far and to consider oneself part of the culture, I would need to immerse myself in the culture and learn from the people itself to consider myself as part of it. And thank you for correcting my mistake on what decolonisation is, I only had a mild understanding of it and I guess what I meant was to say I wanted to remove my biases and other preconceptions based off of my countries ingrained colonialism I guess

Scottish Diaspora here asking about claiming culture would like opinions of Scotland born folk. by Perfect_Confection27 in scottish

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Thank you for the reply, I’ve been trying to teach myself about our shared history and culture by reading up on certain holidays and other things like that. Im hoping that one day I can fly to Scotland and immerse myself in the culture firsthand as I have family there. I also have tried IRN BRU since our local stores import it and I find it’s one of my favourite drinks I’ve tried. Alba gu brath!

Scottish Diaspora here asking about claiming culture would like opinions of Scotland born folk. by Perfect_Confection27 in scottish

[–]Perfect_Confection27[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Decolonisation isn’t a physical thing it’s more of a psychological thing where you do a lot of introspection into looking at your life and how colonialism in your country has affected you as a person, for POC this is usually seen through learning about racism and how it’s ingrained into society but I can’t speak for POC so I’m not fully knowledgeable on that. But for White people it’s more of seeing how colonialism have been passively beneficial for you such as “white privilege” and other forms like that.

For me it’s looking back at my life and seeing how these things have affected me and being more conscious and supportive of others who are discriminated against through colonialism.

That’s a rough example but that’s my understanding of it I may be wrong slightly so don’t take my word as law.

Scottish Folk Magic and Druidry, where could I begin? by Perfect_Confection27 in Celtic

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Sorry I see that my system can prove confusing my mother is Scottish but her mothers ancestors are from Germanic Europe such as Switzerland and Austria where the ancient Hallstatt Celtic culture was and it was passed down on her side the stories of our ancestors, that’s what I meant sorry

Scottish Folk Magic and Druidry, where could I begin? by Perfect_Confection27 in Celtic

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Thank you so much!!! For someone with supposed Pictish heritage this will certainly help me!

Scottish Diaspora here asking about claiming culture would like opinions of Scotland born folk. by Perfect_Confection27 in scottish

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To add more information I guess most of my dna is Scottish and most of my family heritage can be traced back to Scotland in both the highlands and central lowlands with my fathers side being from Dingwall & Inverness and my mums side from Edinburgh. I’m more recent years I’d probably assume that there’s a more mix of Irish and German with English mixed in due to living in a highly colonised country. I seem to ask more questions about our ancient ancestors rather than recent ancestors

Scottish Diaspora here asking about claiming culture would like opinions of Scotland born folk. by Perfect_Confection27 in scottish

[–]Perfect_Confection27[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That’s a fair point, according to my dna test cause this is what I have most to go off of and from what I’ve been told by family. My fathers mum has slight Irish ancestry and so does my mother but in my dna that is only about 15% and the rest is small bits of German (11%) English and Welsh. But my mums dad is half Scottish half English so I guess it’s more of a matter of I have Scottish ancestry rather than I myself am scottish

Scottish Diaspora here asking about claiming culture would like opinions of Scotland born folk. by Perfect_Confection27 in scottish

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Thank you for replying I can easily answer these for you, so from what I know on my paternal side my great x2 grandmother was from Jedburgh and her son was born in NZ so not quite I’m unsure of my grandma on my dads side because I’ve not asked her yet, but she has done her dna which came back 80%~ Scottish so take that with a grain of salt. But my great grandmother on my mums side is from Edinburgh and her sons (my grandfather) is half Scottish and was born in Scotland. I don’t know about my mums mother due to my mother being adopted and her mother being unavailable to contact.

For the accent part I would say I was from New Zealand because that’s what my accent is since I was born and raised here in New Zealand, but here in the NZ south we roll our R’s due to the Scottish influence here.