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>In part, these activities are harmless, if not to everyone's taste. At the
>same time Dr. Hague brought out the distinct militarism, the celebration of
>a muscular backwardness--drinking and throwing trees--and the distinctly
>all-white character of most of the proceedings.
Maybe because there's never been too many Scots of African lineage...
>"What is appealing about asserting a strong Celtic Scottishness within this
>imagination of Scotland? They [the Celts] are the original primordial folk
No, the Picts came before the Celts...
>On March 20 last year, the US Senate passed a resolution inaugurating an
>annual Tartan Day every April 6. This is to "recognize the outstanding
>achievements and contributions made by Scottish Americans to the United
>States". Tartan Day emerged after several years of campaigning by the
>Scottish Coalition of business and heritage groups. Though it won
>Democratic backing, the Republican right, most notably party leaders Trent
>Lott and Newt Gingrich, heavily promoted the Tartan Day resolution. Lott
>had moved the resolution for three years running before it was finally
>passed.
The English banned the wearing of Scots' national dress after, I believe
it was the Battle of Sterling...to a catch a current here of something
similar?
Will the wearing of one's tartan be deemed a 'hate crime'? Will it be
associated with white supremacy, just as the swastika (used for millenia
before the 4th Reich) has come to be associated with it?
>rhetoric.... Tartan Day reasserts the authentic, original America, using as
>a route to this an assertion of Scottish ethnicity and Scottish
>tradition....
Well gee, let's just ban St. Patrick's Day and Columbus Day while we're
at it, huh?
>foreign to the Scottish spirit. It was unknown here until it was imported
>from England.... In Scotland there is no such inherent feeling of a
>separation between classes."
And what's wrong with that?
June (of clan Logan, from clan Donaldson)
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