Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
Absolutely! The tourist trade and their biscuit tin version of Scots history over the last 100 years or so, is largely responsible for the wishful thinking and misconceptions of so many, including the Scots themselves, that the truth of our history is a scarce commodity.
Not to mention Hollywood and the movies.

In the US so many people, especially younger guys looking for assertive, masculine images to emulate, had decided that "Scots" = Mel Gibson in Braveheart,[I] or the fictitious Duncan MacLeod in The Highlalnder movies and TV series. There is an assumption that wearing a kilt is rebellious, agressive, possibly meanspirited, and quick to wrath. Historical evidence that does not support those assumptions tends to be ignored.