asked if i was irish

[Lallans]

I don't think the royal family have a place in the 21st century let alone in Scotland. But I won't enter into that discussion.

I assume this hasn't been the case with you, but if you had been in a position where your ethnic identity was under serious attack you might find yourself clinging to tradition more than at present.

Also, after several decades of personal exposure, the modern practice of urging people to scrap every vestige of our past starts to look to me to be postively sinister....