Wearing the kilt in Scotland

[cessna152towser]

I'm appalled to learn of CeilidhDoc's experience of St. Andrews. My daughter took her degree at St. Andrews from 2000 to 2004 and I usually wore a kilt when I visited her. Nobody ever questioned my nationality or right to wear a kilt.
Racism can occur anywhere in the world. In fact the only time I have been attacked was when I was punched in the face by an English lager lout back in 1989 in Eastbourne in the South of England who took umbrage to my Scots accent. I was not wearing a kilt at the time. Did it make me racist or anti-English? No. Indeed many of my friends are English and I have been across the border today doing my regular volunteer duty at an air museum in the north of England, and wearing my Royal Air Force tartan kilt.