Originally Posted by
Mr. MacDougall
It is very cool, and I find it very cool that the fellow in this picture least likely to have Scottish ancestry is the one who looks sharpest! That should answer the folks who have doubts about kilt wearing in the absence of such ancestry!
Yes, he's lookin' mighty fly, but don't be so quick to assume that he's the least likely to have Scottish roots. For all we know, he's a descendant of African-American slaves, who, as Henry Louis Gates, Jr., illustrates through remarkable genealogical research and DNA testing in his PBS series African American Lives (and its sequel), may very well have a family tree that reaches many places, including smallish, verdant islands in western Europe.
The other guys could just as easily be Italian, German, Polish or Norwegian. They were just about to break into a can-can in the video, and I rather doubt a true Scotsman would go there. At least one had his kilt on backwards.
Regards,
Rex.
At any moment you must be prepared to give up who you are today for who you could become tomorrow.
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