[radiohead]

I'm of mixed race, but no Scot as far as I know. More's the pity. I really like them for some reason.

Since I was a child I've liked bagpipe music and gaelic folksongs. I have no problem understanding Scots when they speak. As a little colored girl from the city, I have no idea why I have this affinity for the Scottish. Maybe reincarnation?

[AnAmericanMother]

I'll bet you have some ancestors from Cape Breton Island N.S. or thereabouts. Plenty of black folk up there spoke Gaelic. One of them features in Kipling's novel Captains Courageous.

My husband is only vaguely Scottish - his mom is half aboriginal Irish and half Bremen German, his dad is a Heinz 57 from central Georgia whose mother was a Dunbar (lowland Scot, not Highland). But he wears his kilt and enjoys himself just the same.

[Miss Marple]

I suspect you have Scot somewhere in your ancestry, yet undiscovered. The call of the clans and the pipes is a signe of the heritage.

As my clan chief said, "the call of the clans is to the tenth generation."

[blam]

"I have no idea why I have this affinity for the Scottish. Maybe reincarnation?"

LOL, me too and I'm English.

[Katya]

Ah...you'd be surprised what heritage may hide....here's a link to an article posted here a few weeks back:

Black music from Scotland? It could be the gospel truth
http://www.news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=961062003