Disrespected in my own yard.

**Richrail** · 1st October 13, 01:37 PM

So the story begins, I'm dressed for working in the yard on a cool Autumn morning. Today I decided to wear my Heritage of Ireland kilt, brown leather accessories and bison hose and brown 8 inch lace-up boots. My wife and I are outside, enjoying the beautiful weather. My wife is a distributor for a hydroponic garden product, one of her rep's called and said she would be bring a potential client over to take a look at our tower gardens. My wife's rep shows up with her potential client, they come into the backyard and introductions are made when she looks over at me and says "nice skirt"

. I say nothing, because it is really not worth my time

, my wife pops in with that I'm celebrating my heritage and wear a kilt any time I'm not at work.

My wife goes about showing and talking about the product and just keeps getting a negative response. Why this person even wanted to look at are garden, then just keep being negative is beyond me. She is a Native American who the whole time was talking about mother earth and her "Heritage". She was just disagreeing with my wife and telling her she was wrong and that the plants need the soil. My wife is a internationally certified arborist and a horticultural consultant. She and her sister are horticultural consultants specializing in the diagnosis of plant diseases. My wife has a bachelors degree in biology and her sister has a masters degree in horticulture. Anyway with someone so in tune with their heritage I just don't understand being so rude about mine.

**bdkilted** · 1st October 13, 01:55 PM

I've run into that before too. Some people are very ethnocentric. I you don't share their heritage, you are just a barbarian. It is just proof that the white man does not have a lock on being small minded, you will find that in every hue.

**cable scot** · 1st October 13, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by bdkilted

I've run into that before too. Some people are very ethnocentric. I you don't share their heritage, you are just a barbarian. It is just proof that the white man does not have a lock on being small minded, you will find that in every hue.

I get that a lot here too. I have found if you are comfortable and sure of yourself it tends to get a reaction from people who are not.

**Father Bill** · 1st October 13, 04:32 PM

You can legislate neither intelligence, understanding, nor decency. That's why we come together here in a world where we can give one-another virtual support.

Hang tough & kilt on!

**kiltedrennie** · 1st October 13, 04:47 PM

Sounds like an awesome outfit to me!

**Riverkilt** · 1st October 13, 09:14 PM

Clint Eastwood said it best in Gran Torino, "Get off my lawn!"

**mookien** · 1st October 13, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Clint Eastwood said it best in Gran Torino, "Get off my lawn!"

Yeah, but it's easy to do that when you have a PBR in one hand and a Garand in the other.

**tripleblessed** · 2nd October 13, 01:00 AM

Originally Posted by Richrail

Anyway with someone so in tune with their heritage I just don't understand being so rude about mine.

Many, probably more accurately most, indigenous peoples of whatever continent had a name for themselves. In their own language, this typically meant "people", or "The People". By definition, anyone else was NOT PEOPLE. If you aren't people, you have no heritage or religion and therefore are open to whatever use People choose to make of you. Many were reasonably friendly, some were not. Remembering that we're all cousins can get us beyond such limited thinking. Much anthropology was written from an outsider's viewpoint, and the subtleties of the languages was often not understood by the writers. Also, in some cases these details were not translated by those not wishing to appear as bigoted as they actually were. That was then. Now we can do it differently.

**cessna152towser** · 2nd October 13, 01:01 AM

At least you have the satisfaction of knowing you were dealing with a disrespectful person when she aimed criticism at your wife's cultivation methods and not only at your kilt.

**McClef** · 2nd October 13, 03:14 AM

Yes there are some people who are the first to cry about any perceived disrespect for their own interests and traditions and the first to show none for the interests and traditions of others.

Or of those who do not do something exactly the same way that they do.

I would likely have told the client where to get off.