Quote Originally Posted by gilmore View Post
That's pretty much it.

Americans of Scots and other British descent are by and large so far removed from that. We also are used to self-autonomy and creating ourselves, creating our own identities, often by appropriating artifacts and identities from other cultures and times as we (mis)understand them and making them our own. We may bend a knee or two, but do so in something of the spirit of a tourist in another country (or a time traveler from another time) who always has the ability, if we wish, to stop pretending and go home to the real world where we really live.

If I were you, I wouldn't complain about it. I would do what others seem to be doing, and try to figure out a way to make money off of us. But that's just me.


Probably because I have had to unlearn most of the traditions, beliefs, and some "facts" I was taught growing upwhile having to pay lip service to them. Or at least that is how I relate to what you're saying, Gilmore.