Jock, to me as a Canadian who like many of my country-folk, knows many of the arcane and obscure bits of Canadian history and has a perhaps heightened awareness of the history of those nations who were the earlier foundations of what we are today, the relative disinterest you seem to be describing among Scots in their own history is mildly puzzling. You have occasionally asked why we aren't primarily interested in identifying as Canadian. We and we do, but what you have described in the way you have described it, sounds at first thought to me as quiet non-indentification - not in terms of not being kilted, but in terms of it not being a passing mention in discussion.

Such does not seem to be the case here, so it's interestingly different to me. History seems more important to Canadians than what you describe in Scotland where you have so much of it to love and to find fascinating.

Maybe that's why we, with so little history comparatively, look with such strong interest to the history of the nations that were our progenitors.