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Something like this would be completely appropriate attire to meet the Queen or any head of state. It is also an acceptable form of dress to attend the opera, theater, wedding, funeral or any formal occasion in Canada....including graduation. As I've said before it's on par with a tux.




The avatar to which you are referring is a hollywood adaptation of someone who lived in the late 13th and early 14th century. There is a wee bit of difference between the two.

   

a kilt wearer's worst moment:

   

Awww how sweet. A crotch shot for the Queen mum

   

for me this shouldn't be news and it should not be an issue. A kilt is considered formal dress so?? whats the big deal? No one is going to see it anyway under his cap and gown...why people get so worked up about this stuff is just pathetic really. Much bigger problems to worry about.

   

it isn't a skirt as long as you don't wear underwear

   

That was just plain idiotic.

This is not about historical reenactors, this is about a dude wearing a modern kilt to a grad.

Read the article and clue in.

   

The big elephant in the room is how immigrants from non UK countries just dismiss the 400 years of British (that's English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh) immigration and nation building in Canada as you just did by comparing Dutch traditional dress to Scots.

You don't even want to be a Canadian Brenda. Scots were dying for Canada when this part of the world was just a backwoods Crown colony.

The Scots and English have been coming to Canada since the 17th century.
It's ok for the Quebecois to celebrate their contribution but it's Canada's dirty secret that the Brits actually built this country.

It's like an unwritten rule these days to rid Canada of it's English/Irish/Scots/Welsh roots.
But we can celebrate any other culture that has recently just got off the boat, so to speak.

It's most hypocritical.

Banning the culture of the founding peoples of Canada (if they 'aint French or Native) has been in vogue since Trudeau and his gang gained prominence.

This is just another example of political correctness used to blot out the culture of the peoples who made a huge contribution to Canada; the Scots, the English, the Irish and the Welsh.

   

Exactly and to insult to injury, she can't even be bothered to learn anything about the country she's currently squatting in. She seems found of dumping on Canadiana despite the fact she doesn't even know what it is.

She's just visiting

   

Well, to be a little fair here, a prominant Sikh organization piped up quick enough in defence of the kid's desire to preserve his culture.

   

I have a lot of time for Sikh's. There are many links between Sikh regiments and Scottish regiments.

I should maybe say that many immigrants seem to care little about what happened in Canada the 400 or so years before they got here.

   

I'd agree with that though I'm also not surprised by it. Frankly, there were Sikhs in BC long before my family moved here and I'll be honest and say I don't a lot about their contributions. I shouldn't think they'd know much about the Scots, and that's where the healthy respect for each other's culture comes in.

   

The Sikhs are on our side. They have fought with the Brits for a couple of centuries.

There is talk in the UK of raising a British Sikh regiment in the British Army, which I think is a very cool idea.

   

Well said! PS I think I will put my kilt on as I am all swelling up with pride! LADDY!

   

That's the Queen.

   

Really? The picture looks kinda dated but my vision ain't that great anymore. She sure looks like The Queen Mum

   

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