Quote Originally Posted by Luke MacGillie View Post
People want to belong to a tribe, its just something hardwired in our brain.

It's what drives people, myself included, to fixate, over emphasize, pick any synonym you wish on our connection to a tribe.

With a large push by the Native Tribes of North America to take back their history, to drive out any an all who have not been living within the culture their entire lives, other tribal connections that Americans have come to the forefront. Celts of all types, not just those from Scotland are a "Safe" place where people can exercise their desire to be part of a tribe, normally without any nasty accusations of cultural appropriation.
Lowland Scots, the Scots language ....are Germanic rather than Celtic in origin. Although there has been considerable mixing , you can not say Irish or Highland culture is Germanic.