I was at the gas station yesterday and while i was in line i heard from behind me someone ask where the highland games were in a very proper brogue. I turned around to see an African American woman standing there checkkng out my auld scotland kilt. Now I'm used to people doing their best to imitate a scottish accent (usually sounds more like the leprechan on the lucky charms cereal commercial), when the light heartedly ask whats the deal with the kilt. This woman had it flawless though....Anyway, I explained why I was kilted,etc., and as she chatted with me, her brogue was most definitely there. So the story goes that she American, but her father was in the Navy and relocated the family to Scotland when she was 7. She stayed for school all the way through high school and married her boyfriend right out of school and has stayed in Scotland for 30 years! She was especially interested in the Box Pleated kilt and its resurgence,although admitted very little knowledge of kilts and their styles despite having lived almost all her life in Scotland.
Anyway, I always love it when something or someone comes along and throws my unintended ethnocentricities for a loop!