Tartan-wearing conventions among Scots

[Jock Scot]

As a rather cynical local, I have put much of this clan sept thing, to name but one example, down to cleaver marketing of the tourist industry and associated trades and their biscuit tin version of Scots history and the wishful thinking of the visitors that are willing to part with their hard earned cash to buy into the Scots myth.

Before I get my head shot off(nicely, of course)there are obviously many family names connected to a particular clan and that is not in doubt. What I am saying is that with the myth and mis-information that the tourist trade has bandied about for the last 100 years or so,the "chickens are now coming home to roost". No more are people necessarily going to accept what is written on a whisky tin, they want to delve into the truth, and why not, the trouble is, this can and often does, cause confusion, disappointment, and not a little anger when the truth appears and shatters long held beliefs. I see it all the time here on this website,I am afraid.