Quote Originally Posted by seanachie View Post
So it has become a joke about tartan being more Sino than Celtic. Hence, no issues with the kilt and I have worn one all over China on vacation fall 2010.
Maybe that's why we've lasted in Japan for nearly a decade... Eastern cultures, despite being very closed-minded about SOME things, can be extremely OPEN-minded about many others. Kilts (and sarongs for that matter), I've found, are one thing that are respected and accepted as important to someone's culture -- and therefore off-limits to name-calling, criticism, or negative comments. (Mind you, I HAVE been laughed at -- but generally by children and teens who know no better, even of their OWN culture and history, let alone someone else's).

The only place I've ever had any kind of negative comment has been in my native land of Canada, where a pickup truck full of young'uns just leaving the bar, yelled across the parking lot and called me another word denoting "a bundle of sticks."