Reality Check

[Cygnus]

Don't confuse the kilt with pride in your culture....

I didn't mean to imply that strapping on a kilt would revive this sense of pride (though it does seem to work for some), and that isn't all I am doing. I have done a good deal of genealogical research to help inform family members of their heritage, have pointed out common phrases taken from the works of Scottish authors, and have mentioned a number of the inventions and breakthroughs listed in your post (mostly those from before my forebears left for the US).

So the goal isn't to have the family in kilts, though I do encourage wearing them in appropriate circumstances - especially in the case of my single brothers, but rather to get our minds "accented" as you and Robert Louis Stevenson so aptly put it.

Thanks for sharing your insight, MacSpadger, it is appreciated!