An Open Question for 'Jock Scot' (and Scots)

[Jock Scot]

As the OP of this thread, I'd make the simple request that the conversation steer back to the original question. There are a great many threads on this and related fora regarding how to wear the kilt, when to wear the kilt, who should wear the kilt, etc., but this isn't one.

My original question was an attempt to try to discern whether the attitude regarding non-Scots wearing kilts was more about "those people over in ______" and if it might apply equally to people one actually knows, particularly recent emigrants of one's own family.

While I am not completely stunned, I did find it a little shocking that Jock would so readily accept his own grandchildren abandoning a part of their cultural identity, but who am I to judge that? Old World/New World differences I suppose. It's no skin off my nose.

Well its quite simple really. Let us take my fictitious grandson as the example. If he chooses to become an American citizen for example, or maybe he was of an age not to choose legally, so his father chose for him, he is an American from then on and until he decides otherwise that is the way it will stay, he does not stop being my grandson and it does not stop his offspring having Scots genes and roots, I will still love him as part of the family, but he ceases to be a Scot and as such I would expect him to behave as an American and be loyal to America and absolutely not hark back to Scotland in a major way. Playing at being a Scot for example. Simple.

So have the Scots no roots? Yes of course they have, but rarely do you see them (actually I never have) playing at being Normans for example. It seems that we(some of us anyway) just see things rather differently, that is all.