A question on ethics...

[Riverkilt]

Yikes! What a thread!!

Don't know that there's much difference between wearing an Hawaiian shirt when I'm not Hawaiian and someone who's not Scottish wearing a kilt.

Exactly how does one determine "race" when Great Britain has been conquered and reconquered and invaded by so many peoples over the years?

Think the Saltire kilt was intended for soccer games.

I choose to wear the tartans I wear due to a family connection. But its my choice of how I spend my hard earned money - not a choice made to please or justify to others, particularly the dastardly kilt police.

My first outing in my first tank, a Macdonald Lord of the Isles Hunting, I was accosted by a nut case at the Mesa, Arizona Highland games, a fellow Macdonald, and told only Prince Charles had a right to wear that tartan.

Told him then the Prince should tell the mills to stop grinding it out. My family is from Skye, certainly part of the Isles.

I emailed follow ups to Clan Donald and was told in no uncertain terms that I, and anyone who chose, was entitled to wear that tartan and did I have this nut's name? They were agast that someone would "welcome" members of the clan in such a rude way and wished to speak to him about his behavior.

This year I sought him out and found he was no longer around, been squeezed out for being a troublemaker/nut case.

I do so hate the kilt police.

Can understand the cultural protection piece - but it swings both ways. Like here in the American West Native Peoples have different attitudes. Some want to guard their culture from outsiders. Others want to welcome others in to share the joy that they have. Thank God for the later.

Ron