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How Scottish Culture Shook Off The “Kilted Straitjacket”

ISSUES Posted: September 4, 2014 12:25 am

“A generation emerged in the 1970s that wondered why it was still, so late in the 20th Century, watching men in kilts dancing around swords … when none of us knew anyone who actually did this kind of thing … Scottish national identity began to wrap itself in the cause of social justice – in the idea of resistance to unaccountable wealth and power imposing its will from outside. … This Scotland was also irreverent, self-mocking, and hilariously funny.”

ISSUES Published: 08.27.14

Read the story in BBC Published: 08.27.14

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