I for one am delighted that Bugbear hangs out here, and hope some day to botanize with him out there. Kilts and all are very nice, but I look for something subtler in the Highland legacy, and I think it lies in the land itself and its people rather than its fashions. A recent visit to the Gaeltact of Ireland (my first), was as life-changing as visits to the Highlands in the past, though I lament the loss of the old forests, just as I did as a child in England.

But back to the original question. I wonder what made you ask it in the first place?