I really would like to understand the issue from a Scots point-of-view. I don't think the numbers enter into it, as this is a popularity contest and the majority shouldn't even matter.

But I also don't understand Phil's comment. We aren't trying to take anything away from you or ban you from doing anything - it's honestly the opposite. We are trying to honor your practices and spread their use. Is that still wrong? The only thing I can think of that makes sense is that you feel it's a watering-down, and thus by spreading and adapting to kilt-wearing we are actually taking it away from you because it is no longer just what it was.

And if that's how you feel, I understand. I also understand how Jock Scot says that he's able to cope with it because he's at least teaching people to do it up right. But is that the meat of it? Or are there other reasons?

I, of course, have a problem with being the water in the watered-down single malt analogy. If we can't be considered a single-malt brewed in a foreign distillery, maybe we can at least be a blended whisky - through education and the advice of Scots? I won't push the extended metaphor further ;)

This may have been covered before, of course. I haven't seen it in my short time here, though, and wouldn't know where to start searching. Maybe there should be a sticky on these sorts of feelings so we can avoid this sort of thing in the future?