Scottish Festival Peeves?

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Semiomniscient wrote:

Irish dancers.
Shouldn't be invited to Highland Games. If it were a Celtic festival, that's a different bird. I enjoy watching them, but it's not my culture.
The Irish in general it seems...Too bad the "Scotti' brought the games tradition with them from Ireland!
I get really annoyed when I'm seen in my kilt and someone calls me Irish. I'm not Irish. I don't want to be Irish. If you want to go back into the early middle ages and discuss the commonalities of people, let's remember that a lot has developed since then and Scottish culture is far different from Irish. Besides, if the Irish invented Highland Games, why don't they have Irish weight throwing games?
People who wear their Highland dress funny or wrong.


Then Semiomnicient wrote:

We don't criticize them for dressing in costume at Ren Faires. It is appropriate for the circumstance. The traditional kilt is an accepted albeit ethnic form of fashion. It is not a costume, but modern clothing. I wouldn't have a problem if an African man wanted to show up to a Highland Games in a Daishiki or a Muslim woman in a hijab to share their heritage as we were enjoying ours. Those things are articles of clothing--not fantasy costumes... and while they're not Scottish, they fall into a similar category that Pirate suits simply don't.[/QUOTE]


You just wouldn't want to see the Irish there. Interesting how you're tolerant, but not.