Wearing kilts as a mark of respect

[Larry124]

"For that is the mark of the Scots of all classes: that he stands in an attitude
towards the past unthinkable to Englishmen, and remembers and cherishes the
memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of
identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation."

- Robert Louis Stevenson, Weir of Hermiston, 1894

Not only Scots.

The problems in the Middle East and the Balkans for instance appear to be pretty clear examples of the danger of too much of a focus on History as a basis for current behavior.