I'm an ESL and I just learned that Scrooge McDuck is supposed to have a thick Scottish accentWhat do Americans think of this?
It's not a "thick" Scottish accent. The voice actor's parents were Scottish and he spent some of his childhood in Edinburgh, but later moved to Canada and the US. He likely wouldn't have been cast if his accent was thick.
>>154024180He moved to america as a kid so it should have been mostly gone by the time he was an adult
What's to think about? He has always been Scottish.
>>154024278I doubt that other countries keep it.
>>154024291Why would Americans think about that?
>>154024180he's scottish because scottish people are stereotyped as being cheap
>>154024180Scrooge is a cultural reference to Andrew Carnegie and I think that gets lost to pretty much any international Duck fan or artist where the figure might not be relevant His voice is stereotypical enough to be unique and endearing while feeling like the exaggerated toon character he is
>>154024180What, did you think McDuck was a German name?
>>154025116>>154024999Huh, very interesting. Never heard about the stereotype. Does it still exist in the US? Kind of weird because I don't think I've seen many people call themselves "Scottish Americans" today. Maybe only Irish Americans are seen as a group with their own stereotypes
>>154024180>That Scrooge has a thick Scottish accentWhy would we think about this at all, it's what we grew up with and his last name is fucking McDuck>That other countries don't dub him as suchNo different than dubs changing accents to reflect more recognizable regional variants like the Osaka accent often being cast as a Southern American accent in English dubbingEither way there's really not much to "think" about.
>>154025621Well I don't look at a name like McDonald and immediately think of Scottish stereotypes
>>154025764You would in a context where the fast food restaurant didn't exist, McDonald is a Scottish as fuck name.
>>154025646I really wonder what's the difference between scots and irish?
>>154026829>I'm too dumb to understand the difference between two different countries
>>154026829Scots are from Scotland and Irish are from Ireland Hope this helps
>>154025764Any name thats starts with Mc, Mac, or O' is Scottish or Irish, how the hell do you not know this?
>>154024291Do you know how fucking few Scots there are that speak Swedish? We don't even have a stereotypical Scottish accent that you could do an impression of.
>>154026829Yeah, don't ask that in either country.
>>154027037Mc or Mac is Scottish, O' is Irish
>>154026885rude
>>154026829Well for one thing they're two different political entities with about 3000 years of independent cultural development and drastically different modern historical contexts in relation to the British Empire. That's probably a good starting point.
>>154027037I know that, but so what? Now every American with a name that starts with "Mac" should be stereotypically Scottish? Especially since we're talking Disney, they can make up silly names.
>>154027043>Do you know how fucking few Scots there are that speak Swedish?Probably more than swedes fluent in scottish.
>>154027927>scottish
>>154025621Since OP said he's ESL, I assumed he usually reads translated duck comics. Scrooge is not a McDuck in all translations. German comics rename him as Dagobert Duck, French comics call him Balthazar Picsou, Swedish comics use the name Joakim von Anka. Unless the comic specifically discusses Scrooge's youth, the Scottish connection can easily be lost.
>>154027914I thought Mc/Mac was irish
>>154029511It is but scots use it too
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