Census poll: What is your cultural / historical connection to the kilt?

[Mael Coluim]

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[ThistleDown]

Welcome back Now isn't this a surprise? 73.17 percent of those who responded to CDN Sushi's X Marks the Scot poll are Scottish or have Scottish ties through direct genealogy. We just can't get away from the genes, can we?

[Bugbear]

I suppose wearing some sort of kilt from time to time to participate in this forum community counts as a cultural connection. I also suppose we are, at this point, a tiny fragment of history to the coming generations, as many of us have recorded so much of ourselves here.

[BoldHighlander]

Welcome back Now isn't this a surprise? 73.17 percent of those who responded to CDN Sushi's X Marks the Scot poll are Scottish or have Scottish ties through direct genealogy. We just can't get away from the genes, can we?

Indeed.

I suppose wearing some sort of kilt from time to time to participate in this forum community counts as a cultural connection. I also suppose we are, at this point, a tiny fragment of history to the coming generations, as many of us have recorded so much of ourselves here.

I never thought of it in that way, Ted .... that's kind of scary!

[ThistleDown]

I suppose wearing some sort of kilt from time to time to participate in this forum community counts as a cultural connection. I also suppose we are, at this point, a tiny fragment of history to the coming generations, as many of us have recorded so much of ourselves here.

mmmm, is that so, Ted? Do we wear some sort of kilt because we are part of the community -- do we wear some sort of kilt to BE part of the community -- do we wear some sort of kilt to create some sort of cultural connection, or is the kilt -- after all is said and done, in itself the cultural connection ?

[CDNSushi]

Welcome back Now isn't this a surprise? 73.17 percent of those who responded to CDN Sushi's X Marks the Scot poll are Scottish or have Scottish ties through direct genealogy. We just can't get away from the genes, can we?

Or alternatively, 26.84% of us, a bit over a quarter, can't claim direct or perhaps Scottishness at all, and yet choose to wear the kilt. 1 in 4 kilt wearers not being Scottish seems to be fairly significant. :-)

Personally, I think that's awesome. Says a lot about the look, comfort, and kilted experience as a whole.

[Bugbear]

mmmm, is that so, Ted? Do we wear some sort of kilt because we are part of the community -- do we wear some sort of kilt to BE part of the community -- do we wear some sort of kilt to create some sort of cultural connection, or is the kilt -- after all is said and done, in itself the cultural connection ?

I was speaking about my personal reasons on that. However, I view both culture and community as an emergent and ongoing system or process of interacting people. Any given person may have any number of reasons for participating in a culture or community, so it could be any or all of those reasons. It's the participation and interacting, from what ever motivation, that keeps it all going.

[Singlemalt]

As far as i know I am 100% Scottish in terms of DNA. My paternal Grandparents emigrated to Canada from Inverness with five children in 1919. My father was their only child born in the "new world".

However what I think is unique in my upbringing is that it was from my mother who was from Cape Breton in Nova Scotia that I think I really get my Scottish "identity" from. When I was a small boy she sang me to sleep with the Sky Boat song and told stories of The Bruce and the spider, and the escape of of Bonnie Prince Charlie from the evil English. She could sing many old songs in Gaelic. It was that that took root in my imagination. Yet as far as I can tell her family was many, many generations born in Canada (MacLeod's, Mac Niels, Cameron and Kerr).

[Father Bill]

As far as i know I am 100% Scottish in terms of DNA. My paternal Grandparents emigrated to Canada from Inverness with five children in 1919. My father was their only child born in the "new world".

However what I think is unique in my upbringing is that it was from my mother who was from Cape Breton in Nova Scotia that I think I really get my Scottish "identity" from. When I was a small boy she sang me to sleep with the Sky Boat song and told stories of The Bruce and the spider, and the escape of of Bonnie Prince Charlie from the evil English. She could sing many old songs in Gaelic. It was that that took root in my imagination. Yet as far as I can tell her family was many, many generations born in Canada (MacLeod's, Mac Niels, Cameron and Kerr).

A marvellous and typically Canadian story; in this case about Scotland, but in all cases about what it is to be Canadian and trace your roots elsewhere. THIS is why it is normal and appropriate for us as "outlanders" to wear the kilt. Thank you Singlemalt! Thank you so very, very much for making the point so completely and articulately.

Bill+

[Father Bill]

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