To feel like a bit of a fraud? Not Scottish!

Why do you care? It's so unimportant.

I’m Scottish!
But also 50% Slavic. And married to an Englishman who’s actually half Irish. And living in Wales.
I have ethnically Scottish, Polish, English and Irish children, but they call themselves Welsh.

Genes really don’t matter that much!

@Rottiee What was the other 5%?

I think that you should be considered the same but I know what you mean. I have a close friend whose parents and grandparents were brought up in South Africa as was he. Yet if I say he’s African, people baulk because he’s white. Yet if he was a black African born in England no one would have any issue saying he was English.

You are a Scot! If you were born in Scotland, raised in Scotland, lived a long time in Scotland or just plain live in Scotland and identify as Scots - that's more than enough to call yourself a Scot. Crack on enjoying being a Scot. All are welcome.

You are Scottish by birth though - my Dad's side is from another country but I am British- English if being specific. But I am also "half" from my Dad's country of origin- even if both my parents were of foreign origin I would be British by virtue of being born here - not discounting my family heritage.

My Husband is Welsh as he was born there but his mum moved to Wales as a toddler and his dad was from just over the border in England.

Nationality is definitely an identity thing with many factors building in to an individual's identity including place of birth and family origin etc and even when a person moves from one country to another.

Also OP this is very funny. If it's any consolation I would put to you that being adopted means that they are also Scottish, even though they're ethnically English.

What an ignorant comment.

Nationality is different to ethnicity. "Indian" and "British" are nationalities, "black" and "white" are ethnicities.

If you are white and you are born and raised in Japan or Brazil or Kenya you will be a white Japanese / Brazilian / Kenyan person. If your mum is Asian and you're born in the UK, you're British.

I consider myself Scottish having lived here for 50 yrs although I was born in England. Dad born in Scotland mum born in Wales 2 England born grandparents 1 Scotland born grandparent I Morthern Ireland born grandparent. My DH is Scotland born and we have 2 Scotland born children.
My sister lives in England my BIL is England born and their child is England born, same parents and grandparents she considers herself English.
Identifying as being English or Scottish is more about feelings than geography.

You are mixing nationality and ethnicity.

"British" isn't an ethnicity.

There are plenty of white Indians, West Indians, Africans and so on.

Gies peace. I'm also only about 40% Scottish and the same Irish although all 4 grandparents were born here. I've been to Ireland once, loved the place but I'm Scottish. I have far more olin common with someone raised here who is ethnically from elsewhere than I do with a "100% Scottish" American who's never been.

The late Stuart Adamson was born in Manchester. He was Scottish too.

We don't view Boris Johnson as American though he was born in New York.

You are Scottish and should not think otherwise.

I realise this isn’t quite what this thread is about and maybe it needs its own thread I don’t know but why is it that someone of indian or black origin can be born in the Uk and identify as British but you can’t be white and born in a black or Indian majority country and be considered the same ethnicity

Everyone’s different. One of my aunts is an accent chameleon, but my mother’s accent is unchange from over 4 decades in England.

My husband is Scottish. Someone at his work phoned and spoke to him and said … oh there used to be a lovely Scottish man who used to work there. What happened to him.

he was so upset. Over 20 year in England and he is very loving of Scotland still and classes himself as Scottish. But I do think his accent is fading. Though I’m not dumb enough to tell him that 😂

DNA tests can’t tell you your ethnicity. Ethnicity is cultural and familial as well as genetic. You are Scottish.

My mother is Scottish with an Irish granny. My father is English with Scottish ancestry. It’s quite possible a dna test would declare me predominantly Scottish, but I was brought up in England, so I’m English with Scottish family. I’m not % anything. My only Scottish trait is the way I was brought up to cook and eat porridge.

That all sounds very Nazi like. Are pure Scottish people better? What about people born & raised in Scotland but with both parents born abroad - are they less Scottish?

2/4 grandparents being English doesn’t make you English.

If you were born in Scotland than surely your Scottish,?
I was born in England I identify as English because I have always lived here however my Dad and his entire family are Irish my maiden name is Irish, most of my mums heritage is also Irish, I still identify as English though!

If you live in Scotland, or consider yourself Scottish, then you are 100% Scottish.

I doubt you'll find anyone doing these test who returns a 100% anything result. I know I have Danish relatives if I go back 4 or 5 generations, one of my Grandparents was born in England. None of that makes me any less Scottish.

Interestingly, the only Scottish ancestor I csn find is my mums maternal line, who were Irish dockyard workers who moved to Scotland in the 1850s ( and then moved south in the next generation) Yet my DNA shows 25% Scottish.

2 Scottish grandparents
1 Irish grandparent came to Scotland as a young child
1 Lithuanian grandparent came to Scotland as a baby

My parents were born and raised in Scotland.

I consider myself 100% Scottish. It isn't about blood.

Not how DNA works. It is based on probabilities of certain markers in certain populations. Scots border populations are nearly indistinguishable from English border populations anyway. The border is political not cultural.

What 40% of you is Scottish? If it's your head and your heart, you're in !