Quote Originally Posted by cessna152towser View Post
Having been born and brought up in Scotland it never fails to amaze me that the people who claim to know most about the Scottish clan structure were invariably born overseas and are only partially of Scottish descent, and I hasten to add this is not a personal or specific criticism of anyone here, I have also experienced it within my own clan society. I only know what I was taught at school and what I have read since then and I know much of it is romance and myth.
You've noticed it too, Alex. Somewhere along the line our heritage that we grew up with and live with every day has been hijacked to feed some vicarious need for a romantic story about noble kilted warriors bestriding the purple heather in the glens of an imagined homeland. I have to admit to an almost total ignorance of clans, mainly because they have been a complete and utter irrelevance during my lifetime apart from having been in the Lennox House at school and knowing that the local council buildings had once been the Buchanan Retreat. It is intriguing, therefore, to find people so obsessed with clans and talking about them as if they actually still existed when in reality they are in the main foreign organisations that purport to perpetuate this romantic myth nowadays.