You have a right to your opinion as Jock has a right to his!

A "Highland games" based on a clan gethering is a traditional event, an event that, it was my impression, was supposed to celebrate our ancestry, and it's traditions. It shold be a way of preserving what was, and could slip very easily into a memory.

If you want a Renn Faire, go to a Renn Faire. If you want a Highland games then do your best to make them a "Highland games" in the proper sense of what is intended.

Sure tradtions change and morph, but is that always a good thing?
Many people wear the kilt because they want a unique identity, and that is for the very reason that you stay, we don't have a unique identity, ours is one of all the natins the built our countries into what they are! So, because it was one hundred, two hundred, or a thousand years ago, gothry about it right!

No, you show respect by keeping tradition alive, and you respect that tradition in the best way you are able. You are your past my friend, yoiu are your parents, and their parents before them.

Lose your past, and you looe a big piece of who you are.