A Q. for "True Highlanders"

[Micric]

Gentlemen,

Thank you for your replies! I already had my own ideas on this, (That kilts and kilt business, as Matt just mentioned, would soon die out.)
To me, the important thing is If we lowlanders and "B...... foriegners" wear the kilt, we should wear it well, taking advice, not in a manner that makes anyone cringe!

My pal did go on to say that the True kilt was in some peril, from all the cheap shoddy merchandise peddled these days.
I think without wearers outside the highlands, that "peril" the kilt is in, would soon become death throes...

[MacBean]

I was disappointed when I first came to the States not to find cowboys.
I was disappointed when I first went to Scotland not find kilts.
In an perfect world, I'd agree with Jock on this; I wish the lovely regionalisms of speech, garment, and food were intact.

We can only blame that ubiquitous purveyor of the hamburger and symbolism of creeping globalism: Mcdonalds.

[artificer]

I was disappointed when I first came to the States not to find cowboys.
I was disappointed when I first went to Scotland not find kilts.
In an perfect world, I'd agree with Jock on this; I wish the lovely regionalisms of speech, garment, and food were intact.

We can only blame that ubiquitous purveyor of the hamburger and symbolism of creeping globalism: Mcdonalds.

Aye, but don't forget Hollywood, Nike, air travel and the internet.

Regional variation existed because people "didn't get around". In a closed system you have that Darwinian specialization to better perform within your specific group and surroundings. You ate what was around you, wore what was made nearby, and everyone started to use the same jargon/slang.

As much as I hate the food-service-mass-produced-generic-trainers-levis-blandness that has effected the most of the modern world, I don't want to go back to eating nothing but potatoes, onions, cabbages, pickles and apples all winter (because they were the only things that would keep).

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[Tobus]

I was disappointed when I first came to the States not to find cowboys.

Methinks you didn't come to the right part! There are plenty of 'em around here...

[OC Richard]

My pal did go on to say that the True kilt was in some peril

That makes me recall the "No True Kilt" fallacy we discussed in the Logic class I took in college many moons ago, and happily forgot all about until just now...

[Woodsheal]

This guy's attitude is right out of the 16th-18th centuries, when Highlanders were dimly viewed by Lowlanders as violent, oddly dressed, foreign-speaking, mountain-dwelling barbarians - NOT as fellow countrymen. Strange to note remnants of that prejudice still in existence...!

[Kornkob]

That makes me recall the "No True Kilt" fallacy we discussed in the Logic class I took in college many moons ago, and happily forgot all about until just now...

Well played, sir.

*golf clap*