How much do Americans know about Scotland?
Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at
1:02 am
Rebecca R asked:
I was just wondering, as last summer I went on holiday with a group of Scottish girls to Switzerland, and we meet some American teens.
They asked questions like “So is Scotland a town in England?” (answer:NO)
“OMG your English is so good!”(english is the spoken language in Scotland)
“Do you wear kilts all the time?” (answer:NO)
I was just wondering, as last summer I went on holiday with a group of Scottish girls to Switzerland, and we meet some American teens.
They asked questions like “So is Scotland a town in England?” (answer:NO)
“OMG your English is so good!”(english is the spoken language in Scotland)
“Do you wear kilts all the time?” (answer:NO)
I was just wondering if these thoughts were widespread throughout America?
What do you think of Scotland and the Scots? There’s some pretty bad steriotyping of the Scottish, but it’s a great place to live, I love it.
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They are generally stupid and ignorant. Look at famous liars; Hillarious Clinton, George Bush *******… I live in England and when I went to Scotland, the people were friendly, beautiful landscape, and I loved those things called Elgin Tablets.
Some americans are very stupid, I’ve been to Scotland, it’s a beautiful land. I love the country side. I got to stay in a hostel and stuff. I’ve always known that it’s not a city, for one, and I knew they speak english, so you just met some stupid americans. There are a lot of them, trust me. I wouldn’t mind moving there, but it’s a little cold for me.
Alike people from any nationality or about any country
Some Americans would only know what they saw in the movie brave heart whilst a few might know more the most of the people that live there.
Its like me asking how much do Scottish people know about Brazil.
Honestly, I’m an American and I don’t know much about Scotland at all. The photos show a beautiful land with a lot of history, and the movies…well, we all know what the movies show…but really, CNN and Fox News don’t have a whole lot to say about Scotland…and we don’t hear much about it as gradeschoolers…..so, no, sorry, Americans don’t know much about Scotland.
) That was one terrible run-on sentence….but I’m up WAAAAAY past my bedtime (it’s 0600 here and I’m on the end of a 12 hour shift…).
I’d love to hear something interesting about Scotland, if you wanted to share it.
Hail.
I’m Scott (born in Canada)…raised by my Grandfather (from Scotland)…he missed boarding the Titanic…because He and his parents stopped to visit a sick cousin…missed the boat…you can ask me
Americans know everything about Scotland which Mel Gibson taught them.