Scottish outlook on kilted Americans?

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I am curious to how folks from Scotland perceive kilt wearing Americans?
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Do Scots look down on someone like me that wears a Kilt for occasions and is not 100% Scottish and/or not born and raised in the UK?

As this thread has already shown, different Scots look at this in different ways.

There are Scots who are pro-kilt and would like to see more kilt wearing, in the broadest terms. For some, this is pride in their national attire, for others it is business. The Highland attire industry in Scotland certainly makes good money off kilting-up the Americans (and Canadians, Australians, etc)...

Other Scots do look askance at non-Scots wearing the kilt. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this, but I've encountered at least three different positions held on this one. First and strangest to me is the "dog in the manger" attitude, where Scots who might only rent a kilt once in a blue moon, don't want non-Scots wearing the kilt at all i.e. like the proverbial dog, they don't want others to enjoy/use something that they themselves have little use for

Second, there is the nationalist position, that holds the kilt to be national attire, which should only be worn by Scots (regardless of their ethnic ground). This one puzzles me because Scotland is not actually a sovereign nation, but rather is part of the United Kingdom, ergo the kilt is a regional attire within the UK as a nation. Nonetheless, Scots who hold this position see themselves as having a nation, so I try to understand their conception, rather than the political situation. A further narrowed take on this that the kilt is Highland attire and should only be worn in Scotland, north of Perth, by people who are residents of that area and probably ethnically Highland-Scottish.

Third is the protective feeling that the kilt should be worn with respect. These Scots see the kilt as a symbol of identity and don't take kindly to people, Americans or otherwise, wearing it as a costume or a joke. Furthermore, they don't like seeing people wearing the kilt badly, and would like people to look smart and appropriate to the event. This protective stance could extend to consternation over utility kilts, non-wool tartan kilts, etc.

Finally, there are Scots who really don't give a fig, as in they don't wear the kilt and couldn't care less if other people do or not.

Scots are people and, as such, have their own individual takes on this, or any other, matter. I think it is therefore impossible to say how Scots, as a whole, perceive kilt-wearing Americans. The short list of positions I just gave is incomplete and there is also the possibility of overlap between different attitudes. To complicate the other side, Americans (or other non-Scots) wearing the kilt are a heterogeneous bunch, with many different approaches, and there is also the issues of context and location that could bring out different reactions based on which Scot is perceiving which kilted American in which place.

To go one step further, even the category "Scot" is contestable as the term has ethnic, cultural, social, and political implications. Imagine a group of lads getting together for bit of kilted pubbing in Inverness: a 1st generation Invernesser (is that the right term?), who came over from Pakistan in his teens and now holds only a UK passport; a native Gaelic-speaker from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, whose family has been in Canada for generations, but is ethnically and culturally still very Gaelic; and a professor of Scottish history, who was born and raised in Oban of English, Norman, and Viking stock, but now lives in the USA and has only an American passport. Who is the Scot?