Missing at the Olympics opener...

[Lallans]

If we want to get really deeply into it, First Nations people are descended from Asians who crossed the Bering Straits area into North America and, if you believe recent theories, were met up by European stone age peoples who in turn crossed over the ice age ice bridge that spanned the Atlantic in that era. So everyone was covered! But darn it, starting back circa 1500 the Hudsons Bay Company consitantly hired Scots to man their trading posts, presumably because they were used to living in cold and isolated communities (and liked money ), and those guys often if not generally married into the native communities.

Cultural bias aside, another thing that got me thinking about the missing 'pipes was the sight of the chief Vancouver organizer doing a TV studio interview while wearing a very large and out-of-place tartan scarf (looked like Hunting Stewart but no doubt I'm wrong)- so I was wondering if that was because the Vancouver Scottish community was het up in general. Amongst my circle of friends where I live the concensus is that the pipes were considered too overpowering, and possibly that there was also a certain English (as in England the country) bias at work. Maybe the closing ceremonies...!