I have run into a few Scots who have taken a hard line - if you don't live (or were born and live) in Scotland then don't wear a kilt or "act' Scottish. In a few cases I tell them that many of my relatives fought and died with the Black Watch of Canada - while helping to save their nation. Yes, we are not Scottish ,according to their definition, but we have every-right to celebrate our Scottish roots. Even if we don't have Scottish roots we are all free people and can don a kilt and have a dram.

As a last point, I do bring up with the few hardheads that the best pipeband in the world is from Canada