Originally Posted by
6April1320
Yet, from my culturally-stifled little spot in the world, I need drive no more than 100 miles to attend festivals dedicated to the following traditions: Irish, Greek, Native American (though, I'll grant you, many tribes are represented), Polish, Serbian, German and Italian.
Perhaps these festivals don't have any trouble getting sufficient attendance.
Or perhaps the Scottish groups have become so entrenched in the general population that people don't tend to differentiate them anymore. The Scottish have been coming over since the earliest days of the English colonies. Big influxes of the other groups came later, so perhaps they're still recent enough for people to maintain the difference in their minds. It seems to me that the Scottish, and the Welsh, tend to get lumped into a general "British" background.
Who knows?
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb
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