I was not born in Scotland, but I have now lived in Scotland for more than half my life (and I am over 60).

[moz@fosstodon.org]

@cstross but can you trace your ancestry back to the first people who walked into Scotland?

Alternatively: you're not really Scottish unless your whakapapa includes Neanderthals.

[simonbp@social.linux.pizza]

@cstross My (English) nan would throw a fit when my aunt (who has lived on Anglesey since the 1960s) called herself Welsh. I can't recall any of her Welsh friends complaining.

[iampytest1@infosec.exchange]

@cstross the poll is configured to allow multiple options to be selected, so I guess you exist in a superposition.

[ordinal@mas.to]

@cstross "in what context is the question being asked"

I mean I don't believe in an abstract Scottishness

[dukethinrediv@mastodon.world]

@cstross I lived in Scotland for only 9 years, but this included half my Primary and all my Secondary education, and both parents had Scottish ancestors, so I count myself as at least part Scottish.
Also I have a fèileadh-mòr.

[tidmarsh@heads.social]

@cstross

No True Scotsman would ask such a question.

[dresstokilt@mastodon.social]

@cstross I was not born in Scotland, own *two* kilts, drink single malts, and lived in Scotland for over 0.056% of my life! I will also abide by the results of this poll.

[dresstokilt@mastodon.social]

@iampytest1 @cstross Cannae be a Scotsman then because they cannae change the laws o' physics!

[log@mastodon.sdf.org]

@cstross What percentage of your blood is Irn Bru right now?

[dresstokilt@mastodon.social]

@gbsills @cstross Oh man when I got to Scotland the first three meals I ate included haggis and I just kept going back for more.

Where I'm from we have something, eh, *thematically?* similar called scrapple and I love it.

[wendyg@mastodon.xyz]

@cstross Dunno, but it doesn't matter how long I live in England, I'll never be English.

[dualkei@hachyderm.io]

@cstross You have been assimilated.

[jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com]

@dresstokilt @cstross

Same as above, except I can further claim I descended from a Scot named 'Bell' who emigrated to Virginia from Northern Ireland in the 17th century after 'The Removal' of the Borderers from their homes south of Glasgow.

So I'll claim I'm Scots-Irish and will abide by no poll saying differently.

[bloognoo@retro.pizza]

@cstross
Like the difference between being a kids father and their dad, you are not a scout, but you are Scottish. You are what you do

[calum@mastodon.dazed-gerbil.com]

@cstross you are scottish if you choose to be so. It is an association more than a birth right.

[dresstokilt@mastodon.social]

@jackwilliambell @cstross I can trace my mother's very common Scots-Irish last name back to 19th-century Ohio. It's personally hilarious, I went on a deep genealogy binge specifically to trace that branch of the family and it was the only one that came up empty. One branch went accurately back to the 9th century in Eastern Europe, but not the one I was looking for.

[arcadiagt5@mstdn.social]

@Steveg58 @cstross Ditto basically.

[highlandlawyer@mastodon.social]

@cstross
Surely you must have seen the questionnaire by now?