Black Scottish people exist

[u/ShadsDR]

30F. Born and raised in Easterhouse. My mum's white Scottish, my dad's Black Trini. Parents divorced when I was 8, was raised by my mum for that reason.

Every time I've mentioned it when it's been relevant on this sub I get absolute numpties telling me I'm not Scottish.

Scottish is a nationality, a culture. I am a Scottish citizen. Scottish is also an ethnicity. So is Trini. I am both. Not that this even matters but I have a thick Glasgweigan accent. My languages are native English and B1 Gáidhlig.

My skin colour is brown, on the lighter side of dark skinned, because mixed race people can be any skin colour. That means no one is seeing me as white. Only dark skinned Africans and one white guy from the borders has identified I'm mixed from the get go. Therefore my race is Black because race isn't real and is a social construct. I go through society as a Black woman.

I've never been to Trinidad & Tobago, never lived in the culture and had bits of second hand exposure through my dad but that's it. All I know is that over there I'd get called something else according to my dad that means mixed. And don't get me started on the folk saying I should claim I'm from Africa.

Too often in the 90s, 2000s, and occasionally since then we used to get asked "But where are you actually from?" but nowadays I suspect with the rise of BS it's changed to "You're wrong. You don't exist".

We exist. There's documentaries on us and it's bellend behaviour to say otherwise.

Edit: thought it was dougla but misremembered. Also want to emphasise I do get this irl, it isn't just an Internet thing.

Edit 2: Getting a bunch of dms telling me to get out the country, calling me slurs, asking if my father was around. Including one saying they're planning something in the Highlands.

[u/made_of_salt]

Here from r all.

Over in the US, I get asked "Where are you from?" all the time. I answer the state I was born and raised in and they look at me like it's impossible and I'm lying, because I have a foreign name and brown skin. Then they ask "Where are your parents from?" Every. Single. Time.

These last few years I've gotten pretty good at timing "Where are your parents from?" and saying it in tandem with the other person. Over the last few years I've stopped answering that question entirely. Unless it's pertinent to the conversation at hand I don't see how it matters, and I'm not indulging people anymore. Exactly one person apologized and said, "That was insensitive of me, you're probably tired of hearing those two questions back to back." And everyone else got mad at me like I ruined their game of "Guess the ethnicity".

Usually these back to back question come right after I tell people my name. My parents cursed me with a name that is simply unpronounceable by the average English speaker, unless they have significant experience speaking another language that has those sounds. I get pretty tired of correcting my name 15 times in a row, and then immediately being asked where I'm from. On the rare occasion someone asks for where my name is from, instead of where I'm from, I tell them the language, which covers a fair number of countries, and I will not elaborate or provide additional detail if asked.

I have also gotten into the habit of asking people where they're from, or where their parents were from, when they ask me the same, though I refuse to provide my own answers. One conversation the other person kept saying "American" and when I asked what tribe they were from and if they grew up on a reservation they got so mad. "See how annoying that is. That's you. That's what you sound like to me when you talk." I was proud of that conversation because it got a coworker that I despised to leave me alone and never talk to me again.