Quote Originally Posted by seanachie View Post
Seemingly a simple question, with a number of variables. So someone attired in a St Patrick's Blue or Saffron kilt should be presumed to be Scot? Here is a link to a NATO website for the forces in Kosovo http://www.nato.int/kfor/media/photo...0330a-003.html Now you have bagpipes and kilts.

No I am not trying to be facetious. I have learned a lot here and through the piece Matt and Todd wrote. I don't deny any of the points, the origins or history. I don't want to upset anyone or demean anyone's personal pride, I was just raising the point that over time and evolution other cultures have included the kilt as well. I believe I said earlier, I seek to find commonality not difference amongst us. I was just sharing my experience, since it seemed to be different from others. I also think that doesn't necessarily mean you have created fictitous history though admitedly not everyone has the same levels of understanding and knows the history.
Just to clarify, I meant my question in a purely innocent way of bringing up a point that seems to get overlooked, NOT b/c I 'took offence' to your posts (or anything like that).

An interesting point... Can something become 'accepted' as the norm (i.e. wearing a kilt to show off Irish Pride in North America) even if there are few in Ireland wearing kilts? Is it wrong? Is it just a case of 'it is what it is'? Do the Irish in Ireland think we're daft for wearing 'Irish Kilts' when they (generally) don't? Does that matter if the wearer feels a connection to the greater 'Pan Celtic Community' (to use someone else's phrase)?

I'm BY NO MEANS passing judgement on North Americans wearing Irish tartans. I have a few myself. I am just pondering aloud.