As a Scot, please not Scotch, I'm pleased you enjoy the kilt . Just wear it well and not stupidly. Don't make fun of us. The Clans and plaids are a major and important part of Scottish history. Honour it!
Ann , speaking as a Canadian but I am sure the same goes for the Americans , Australians , and just about everyone else that wears a traditional kilt , we do wear it with pride for how great it looks as well as representing the Scottish culture . I have had so many people here come up to me gushing about the fact I am wearing a kilt and they have a Scottish connection as well and on and on....It is not lost on us that we should present the kilt and highland attire in a positive light . I am sure most if not all would agree .
@@rickmoore3730 Thank you. I now live in Canada and can't help but feel proud when I see the kilt worn well, with a swagger and as everyday dress. Of course I love a good pipe band in full dress. Enjoy!
My mother is a Stewart (of the royal Stewart’s found out through DNA test & now I’m obsessed with our ancestry and Scottish culture. It’s a love affair!
As a Scot, I don't care what your heritage is. You want to wear tartan, fine. As long as you look sharp, that's good enough for me. Hell, most of it is made up anyway, so why get precious about it. To be honest, I've learned more about the kilt from you, than anyone in Scotland. It's nice to get a fresh perspective about kilts and tartans, something that's rare in Scotland.
I’ve been wearing a kilt at least a few times a month for the past year. I’m not even remotely Scottish or Celtic. I’m a pure bred southern slav. I just love the aesthetics and the comfort of it and wear it as often as possible.
Most of it is made up. SMH. So All the Clans that were in Scotland are made up? So the research that many have done is made up? Yes, I have heard that most in Scotland do not know of the heritage of their past. That does not mean it is made up. Maybe the whole modern push to make your own tartan or plaid .
@@charlesdriggers199 , tartan, as we know it today, didn't exist because they didn't have modern dyes. Simple patterns were made using plant based dyes, which were not really colourfast. What we know as tartan dates back to Queen Victoria and Sir Walter Scott. They made it fashionable at Court, and individual Lords effectively made up their own tartan designs. The richer the Lord, the brighter and more colourful the tartan. Weavers then produced their own variants, such as modern, muted, ancient etc, to distinguish their cloth from other weavers. This is all well documented, and accepted in the tartan world. Tartan, like everything else, comes in and out of fashion. It's trendy today because of the "Outlander" effect and DNA testing. As for Clans, they ceased to have any political or economic influence after 1746. Many Lords actually evicted their own followers during the Clearances, just to make money. As a result, few in Scotland care about Chieftains and Clans. Why follow those who brought death, betrayal and destitution on your descendants? It tends to be Americans, Canadians and Australians, who are looking to find their roots, no matter how tenuous, that are into Clans, Highland Dancing and all things tartan. Just go to a Clan Gathering and play spot the Scotsman. Too many are sold fairy tales and part with good money for tartans they have no connection to. It's big business in Edinburgh.
David Cramb I’m proud my ancestors were Scottish and I just enjoy the culture. You know we live in Cancel Culture where people expect you as a Scot to be offended by non Scots wearing a kilt.
I'm Puerto Rican, Italian and Irish. I respect the history of the Celts,and how they fought for their freedom, including the diaspora. I identify with the Celtic culture and even participate in the Highland Games. It is an attitude that I identify with and want to assimilate. Sláinte mhaith! Keep the culture.
Well Irish culture and Scottish Gaelic culture share a common background so you have the ancestral link but that doesn’t matter, you can be into it regardless of your background
I’m Scottish and Irish. I’m in a FF pipe band and it’s flattering to hear when Italian American fire fighters want to join the band and as if it’s ok even though they are zero percent Celtic
I’ve always been the kind of person that has gone down the road less traveled. After 21 years of Naval service I now am able to express myself and my heritage (German, Welsh, Irish, Scottish and Norse). With all that said, I’m not out to make a statement. Just me being me.
I am glad there are other people that are glad to be mutts. I wish it was an option on government forms. I am Scottish, Irish, English, French, German, and Native American......MUTT.
I'm Italian with a little German and Irish, but I was a drummer in a pipe band and that along with a once in a lifetime trip to Scotland made me fall in love with the culture, haggis and kilts. Now I'm taking on the bagpipes and just might be the only piper in Puerto Rico where I'll be retiring to in a little over 3 years.
I'm a soaked in the wool Scot too. If you want to wear a kilt and enjoy the swagger then 'go for it'. I personally have no beef about anyone either wearing a kilt or being seen in any particular tartan. I'd love for people to be happy and have the confidence to wear what feels to a man a......very open experience. Even in Scotland soooo many people love to see a smart dressed man in a kilt. It makes everyone smile. I love learning about kilts, sewing techniques and 'bites' of history that is NOT taught to Scots. My father grew up in a house in the highlands where gaelic was spoken, but not in his presence. This was to 'help' him in the modern world, as the language of business and progress was English. DNA tests are an eye opener. My friend's dad got tested. The result showed he was 50% Italian. His mother has passed, now he's scratching his head. We are all an interesting mix. I really love your videos and I enjoy seeing you cracking folk in kilts.
That's the problem with DNA testing, sometimes it opens up a whole can of worms. I've found something similar in my family, before DNA testing, and was warned not to ask any questions. When it involves living people, maybe somethings should be left in the past. Depending on where/when your friend's father was born, it could have been an Italian POW. Lots of them worked on farms during the war.
@@davidcramb5793 My colleague confused me at lunch one day when he announced, "It's a strange day when you find out your uncle is really your half brother". Skin, hair, teeth were scattered by the coal bunker as hell was let loose between the dad and 'uncle'. You are right about leaving somethings in the past.
A couple of years ago I informed my Pastor that I would be absent on the next Sunday as My family and I would be attending the Kirkin at the Presbyterian Church downtown. I never miss the service and have participated for decades. He inquired as to the Tartan I would be wearing(presenting), I replied Johnston. He said I know you are Johnstons, but what Tartan do you wear. Ah..... that would be Johnston. We got a chuckle out of that, seams that I was the first person of Scottish decent that he had met that wears the Tartan of my paternal line.
My wife, future son and I will probably be moving out of WNY eventually. Would love to work for you guys designing buckles, decorative items, making kilts, and whatever I could do to advance the culture and keep it alive. I have a lot of unique designs for sporran cantles. I even started drawing up matching sets of decorative wear.
I got into kilts recently and connected with my Scottish ancestry. Like you guys I'm a typical American Heinz 57 mutt with (New York) German, Dutch, German-Swiss predominately in my father's family. I always knew my mother has Celtic genes through her red hair which I passed on to my son. Digging into my genealogy further revealed even more mixing of family genes. I have two great-grandmothers on my father's side who were of Scottish descent, highland Clan MacPherson and lowland Clan Lennox. My mother's side turned out to also have German, German-Swiss and Luxemborg ancestry (surprise), besides the expected McDermid sept of Clan Campbell, Irish-Norman from the last Geraldine Earl of Desmond, Gerald FitzGerald, Welsh and, of course a lot of English through my grandmother's Morley side.
Yes the further back we trace it, the more it goes back to old Germanic tribes who move westward into the Iberian Peninsula (France) and North into Doggerland and what would later become England Ireland And Scotland. There is a Germanic influence in all of those languages, as well as a mixture of others over the centuries. Fascinating stuff!
I had no idea y'all had a lot of German and Welsh where you are! I'm pleased to hear it. My fathers family is from Schuylkill county, a very ethnically mixed place, but he's mostly Welsh and German. I get my Scottish from my mother (Western North Carolina).
I am a direct descendant of the house of Scott, I was born in Wisconsin. I am proud of my family name and I want to embrace more of my clans heritage, I am happy to see other people embrace my ancestors culture
English, Scottish, Irish and German mostly with a bit of Norwegian also Archibald, Russell and Hunter are my closest Scottish links. Stewarts on both sides much further back. 100% Bona-fide all American Mutt and proud of it!
What about the LADIES? I am 1/4 Scottish (maternal grandfather) and I wear my SHAW plaid proudly to festivals. My kilt was made in Scotland. I usually wear it with a clan t-shirt and my tartan scarf (tied correctly for a married woman). I wear black hose and low boots. So, any more advice for the lassies?
I got into kilt wearing from my Scottish Rite degrees/ritual experiences since 2018, then confirmed my maternal family heritage with Smith, Stewart, Wallace from great grandparents. German heritage on my paternal side of family too.
Really Team Mutt here. My family's been American since long before there was a United State of. The closest "direct" link to Scotland is through my stepmother, who is a Stewart. So I stick to Universal tartans, except for my Stewart kilt. I wear that one for her, since my stepbrothers don't wear kilts.
Like most here in the U.S.. I am a mut. Three different countries to be exact. But, I too have that affinity for the tribal , clan bond. I guess it might have to do with having Robertson, Scott, Lorimer, and some other Scots in my heritage. I am a part of Clan Donnachaidh. And my wifes maiden name is MacAllister.
I'm a teeny bit of Scottish here. My great x9(?) grandfather was born in Argyll on Loch Fyne, (MacLachlan) and his grandfather married a McColl. Besides that, I have Irish, German, Dutch, Native American, French, English, and probably others as well.
My family has been in America since the Mayflower and surprisingly still very Scottish, Welsh and Cornish/Brittonic and Saxon, with late German admixture in the late 1800s. If you're related to Harold Drummond Williams who married Louise Snow then we're cousins and in the clan Drummond, and related to Mackenzies, Stewarts, Grants, Cathcarts, Wallace and Blair of Blair. That's just on my mom's side. My father's side is very Cornish and Yorkshire English and Welsh. I am mostly of Prydain stock and proud of it!
My surname is Haughey which is ancient Irish. I'm descended from Irish Kings in the 1st century. I did my ancestryDNA and shows that I'm half Scotch-Irish (Ulster Scot), quarter English and quarter Swedish/Norwegian. I now feel obligated to buy a kilt!
Barefoot Pirate Haughey is not that common,so when most irish people think of haughey they associate with charlie Haughey who was a rather flamboyant and corrupt irish taoiseach(prime minister). Just to forewarn you when you come to ireland lets hope your first name is not charlie.
@@galoglaich3281 😆 I am very aware of Charlie's history. I'm sure like any politician you have to have these characteristics. I have no Charlies in the family. I would like to know more about my surname. I do know there are Haugheys throughout Scotland, Canada, Australia, and USA (I believe I'm more Scot). I didn't know it wasn't a common name, how rare of a name is it and how do you pronounce it?(since it gets butchered here in the states)
@@barefootpirate Sorry i am only seeing your comment now.Hahhee is the usually pronounciation.Its more of a native irish name than ulster scot but due intermarriage it wouldn't be unusual.The term ulster scot usually refers to descendants of lowland scots and they are accepted as a separate group from the native irish,but in reality the people of the north of ireland and the scottish highlands have been mixing for centuries.
@@galoglaich3281 thank you for the response! I always get frustrated when I walk into an Irish store or Irish festival and I'm looking at all the surname merch and I can't find my name (especially on Irish name maps)! If it's an old native name then why wouldn't it be there? It also means "Horseman" or "mounted Knight"
@@barefootpirate This might sound strange ,but haughey is not the name you should be looking for,because its most likely only one of a dozen of anglicised form of the original gaelic name.From a little search i did keogh is one of the anglicisations and you will surely find that.Other forms are McCaughey Caughey hoey less common than keogh but you will definitely find keogh its very common.
About half my ancestors are from Northern Ireland and the other half are from Scotland and Wales....my wife on the other hand is of English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, German, and Dutch,.....they're Team Mutt.
I don’t think that as much justification needs to be made to embrace a culture that is receptive to being embraced. There are millions of non-Asians who fully adopt a love of Japanese culture, whether it’s calligraphy, food, manga, anime, fashion, music, etc. Scottish and Irish (or broadly Celtic) culture is also shared happily with people who have no ancestral connection. As long as it is done respectfully, then go ahead. There are some cultures (having usually had bad histories with colonialism or oppression) that find imitation offensive, and so they may be happy to share food and music, might not be happy with non-members adopting dress, hairstyles, or tattoos etc. Canadian First Nations, New Zealand Maori, and Scandinavian Sami are but a few who would like it if you didn’t dress or style yourself with their identity.
She didn't have a mic in this episode. No reason other than that. If you watch the majority of our videos, the person who is running the board / video feed, doesn't have a mic (either Adam OR Coraline).
I am also a person who loves to wear a kilt every day no matter how much rain or snow or sunshine is beaming on my face, I also ride a motorcycle in my kilts and yes it blows up in front so sometimes people can see what's underneath, SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE
So I bought a utility kilt that is a mans not a woman’s ( mix up in the order, too late to send it back, and too expensive to ship back). Plan to wear it for sporty stuff, anyway, is that any big no no.?
I am Clan MacMutt. A little MacLean, a little tobias, a little Long, a little Klingler, a little more Smith, a little more Patton. GOD help me my nose is even cold!
@@mattymaclean621 My Grandmother was a Klingler and Tobias Long was an Ancestor and Indian trader around the early 1800's in Ohio. and My Mother as I have said is a Smith. We Have much in common it seems.
@@mattymaclean621 I know that is where Duart Castle and our Clan Chief is. It ranks very high on my bucket list and I wish I could do it now but too many things are aligned against me at present, money being at the forefront. Thank GOD for the internet and for the research that I have been able to do. I have seen pictures of the castle and they are breath taking. I even have a copy as wallpaper on my computer. We Americans tend to go overboard on our involvement in heritage especially when I only found out about it three years ago. For me the first thing I wanted to know about was the history. How did the Patton's become Sept members of Clan MacLean? Who married who? Or How was it arranged? I still haven't narrowed it down that far as yet, but, I do know we were Noblemen who moved up from Shropshire, England early on and somehow Joined with the clan. I like to think it was the similarities between our two Mottos; the Patton's is "Virtute Adepta" which is Latin for, "Aquired by Virtue." and MacLean's is, as you well know; "Virtue Mine Honor" or, "Virtue is the Mark of My Honor." Personally, when I first saw that, I thought there was a lot more at play here than met the eye. No doubt there is plenty of story here that I just haven't found yet, one that will no doubt blow my mind when I do. And I thought the tale of the headless horseman was something of a conversation starter! It has become a passion of mine, finding the history and meeting members of my Clan family like you Matty. I have a saying; "In order to know where we are going in life, we first must discover where we have been." Do write back Matty, I do very much look forward to hearing from you again.
I’m mostly Scottish and Irish but I also have English, French, Portuguese, Cherokee and Choctaw. I’m a Heinz 57 mix of everything. But I feel most connected with my Scottish heritage and my last name is a Scottish Border Reiver name and Highlanders mixed in my mother’s side.
Im a Mitchell Clan which is part of a Stewert clan... I am mixed lol England and northwestern Europe, Scotland, France, Wales, Norway, Germanic Europe My 5 grandmother and grandmother ( on my fathers side ) cames from Northern Ireland( where they all lived as far as i can find) to New York and since then my father side settled there. My father is the only one that went outside New York lol
Typically, traditionally, you wouldn't wear both in the same outfit. You'd pick one and honor that clan in that outfit. That being said, you could have a second kilt for different occasions!
My direct paternal line goes back to Argyll, to Clan MacDougall. My father's mother's line goes back to the Scottish Borders, and my Mother's side goes back the lowland Clan Ramsay.
i noticed something weird with brythonic and gaelic tartan didn't the celts use colours for a compass? welsh tartan, made sense cornish tartan, made sense breton tartan, also makes sense so i believe that the celts may have had a even worse schizm not just from the language but also due to different beliefs for tartan from name to direction of your country
I have several lines to Scotland, Calder, McKinnan and a few others, but I also have dutch, wails, Manx(Isle of Man), also have aNorthern Europe King and Queen, I have ancestor who was a ship right for the Dutch East India Trade Co. I’m related to president Taft, Lizzie Borden and Davy Crockett. I’m as mutt as it gets. But I’m still Scottish. In decent.
There's ancestry that we know and then there's what we don't know that we find out with DNA analysis. My dad's family was from Vitulazio Italy and mom's family was mostly from the UK, Ireland and Germany. Thing is, when I did the DNA thing, I found out my dad wasn't 100% Italian as he thought he was. I am 22% west asian, which is to say Turkish, Armenian, Iraqi or Persian, so somewhere in that part of the world. It means he as almost half that. At first glance, I'd have to guess it was Dad's mother's side. I have a suspicion they were related to Chaldean Iraqis. Mom's surname is German, but after her ancestors came here in the 1700s, they pretty much intermarried people with English, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Anderson and Scott figure in. On her mother's side, it's English and Irish, the latter from Roscommon, the former traced back to the 1500s. One line came from Scotland to Cambridge with the surname Ely, but I can't find anything more about that one. He was born in 1688. My guess is he split in the early 1700s...So yeah, Americans tend to be mutts. My wife is a Watt, so I wear Buchanan. Maybe an Anderson or Scott tartan will be in my future. I'd like to know what an Ely would wear. I think he was from the Fife area.
James L please don’t consider a DNA kit a real DNA analysis because it isn’t. My sister is an Anthropologist and laughs at people that waste money on those things.
@@celtickiltculture I guess. It matches a lot of what I know about my ancestry, so it can't be that far off. If I had the dough, I would Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA to get some more detail. Argument from authority is kind of weak.
I am defiantly a mutt, I have German, Celtic (both Scottish and Irish Clan Cameron, don't remember my Irish one) English, French, Norse, Dutch, Swiss, also had a Native American ancestor but that was 400 years ago, and a few others, all just on my mothers side. I know nothing on my fathers. My mother and her family traced our family tree back to around 400 AD. That being said I am American so most people don't give two shits especially the Europeans, and most Scotts probably don't care either if you have Scottish ancestry and want to wear a kilt, any one can wear one if they so wish, just do it properly if you are.
You have to wonder what the poor teuchters riding coffin ships on the way to an uncertain future in the New World, turfed off their land and the rafters burnt behind them so an absentee laird could run sheep and shoot grouse, would make of their descendants' fascination with the clans. After what they'd been through, they'd probably think them mad.
They probably would at that, but learning one's past is far more important than holding a centuries old grudge over bad blood. One must "tak the high road," to coin a phrase. "In order to know where we are going in life, we first must discover where we have been."
I’m a Cochrane, but I’ve got ties to Kilgore and MacDuff. I’ve also got German and English. The English comes from the Deep South side of the family haha, very boring.
Im up in New Hampshire its all irish and scotts up here we actually in londonderry the Scott and irish put the first potato in the ground in north America in New England depending on where you are but NH scott Irish and french huge around were I am my dad wad adopted so I have that Italian last name but hes 50 percent scott Irish lol
It's a similar argument about the wearing of the Royal Stuart (Stewart) tartan. One thing that gets me uggit is the way that Americans call us Scotch, we are Scots or Scottish but to carry that on Rocky, Eric and Mac you must have a lot of Scotch in you.
Campbell and Stewart? I thought they didn't like each other. Or way back when. My grandfather told me Stewart's don't like Campbell's. He said never trust a Campbell. Apparently our family has been feeding with them forever. I asked later and nobody knows why we don't like them. It's neat the culture and heritage we all have.
Thomas Patton. Totally agree. Whats wrong with enthusiasm? These guys have it in abundance. I wear my kilt when I want, not when someone elses convention or rules allows it. I'm retired now so I don't do anything as much as I did, including wearing the kilt, but the weather is improving. Long may your lumb reek! ( Long life to you.)
I have 10% Scottish Ancestry.I'll admit,I knew very little about Scotland until Outlander. Now,I am an obsessed Sassenach. I would love to see some traditional highland dresses and corsets and the whole 9 yards. Can you point me to someone who makes authentic highlander dresses? Sorry if this has been addressed before.
Per DNA 93% Scottish/Irish/English. Yeah, I have the stereotypical red hair, freckles, and pale skin. Fun fact dark red hair is considered English and bright red hair is Celtic. Clan Anderson
Who the heck is clicking dislike? Anyway; thanks for all the great info y'all provide! I have learned so much from y'all's videos. I'm half Irish, 1/16 Abernathy, 1/8 Harper. So my Celtic heritage is where I focus.
I always dislike/downvote any comment that uses "Y'all". I always dislike/downvote any comment that refers to "heritage". Americans are so oblivious that the rest of the world views the reference to heritage as one of thinly veiled white supremacy. As a Scotsman, I just see this heritage stuff as just cosplay.
I am the 13th generation cousin of King James 6th / 1st of England. I thought it was strange years ago that I had Scottish mannerisms. And I found out the connection in 2016', This is through Clan MacDonald. My daughter looks just like Prince Charles Edward Stewart and it's kind of scary how close they are. And I look like King James 6th/1st of england and Robert the Bruce. (No wonder I scare people at night 😋). I was really surprised to find that my family has been in the United States since 1750's in Kentucky from Scotland.
@@serpicosilkwood4664 one thing I found out about is that there are a lot of people that are related to Royality and don't even know it. It is really interesting when you think of the spread of descendants over the century's.
Typical American response..? I have 26 pages (?) of genealogy that was sent to me in 2016', right after I got out of the hospital almost dieing of diabeties and received the papers was was a big surprise to me. There is a normal work load that you have, I kept adding on and on. Then before I knew it I was doing 3 times the work by myself. I had diabetes and didn't even know it, BE SURE THAT YOU TAKE TIME TO REST ! Watch your work load, it will sneak up on you. Stay safe and healthy. 👍
As a Scot, please not Scotch, I'm pleased you enjoy the kilt . Just wear it well and not stupidly. Don't make fun of us. The Clans and plaids are a major and important part of Scottish history. Honour it!
Ann , speaking as a Canadian but I am sure the same goes for the Americans , Australians , and just about everyone else that wears a traditional kilt , we do wear it with pride for how great it looks as well as representing the Scottish culture . I have had so many people here come up to me gushing about the fact I am wearing a kilt and they have a Scottish connection as well and on and on....It is not lost on us that we should present the kilt and highland attire in a positive light . I am sure most if not all would agree .
@@rickmoore3730 Thank you. I now live in Canada and can't help but feel proud when I see the kilt worn well, with a swagger and as everyday dress. Of course I love a good pipe band in full dress. Enjoy!
Amen Sister!
Yeah, because you Brits would never, ever, dream of making fun of Americans...
Hear, hear!
My mother is a Stewart (of the royal Stewart’s found out through DNA test & now I’m obsessed with our ancestry and Scottish culture. It’s a love affair!
I'm primarily Welsh, and I love wearing kilts! Iechyd Da! (a cheer for good health)
As a Scot, I don't care what your heritage is. You want to wear tartan, fine. As long as you look sharp, that's good enough for me. Hell, most of it is made up anyway, so why get precious about it.
To be honest, I've learned more about the kilt from you, than anyone in Scotland. It's nice to get a fresh perspective about kilts and tartans, something that's rare in Scotland.
Thanks for the kind words! We are passionate about what we do and we're happy it shows. 😁
I’ve been wearing a kilt at least a few times a month for the past year. I’m not even remotely Scottish or Celtic. I’m a pure bred southern slav. I just love the aesthetics and the comfort of it and wear it as often as possible.
Most of it is made up. SMH. So All the Clans that were in Scotland are made up? So the research that many have done is made up? Yes, I have heard that most in Scotland do not know of the heritage of their past. That does not mean it is made up. Maybe the whole modern push to make your own tartan or plaid .
@@charlesdriggers199 , tartan, as we know it today, didn't exist because they didn't have modern dyes. Simple patterns were made using plant based dyes, which were not really colourfast.
What we know as tartan dates back to Queen Victoria and Sir Walter Scott. They made it fashionable at Court, and individual Lords effectively made up their own tartan designs. The richer the Lord, the brighter and more colourful the tartan. Weavers then produced their own variants, such as modern, muted, ancient etc, to distinguish their cloth from other weavers. This is all well documented, and accepted in the tartan world. Tartan, like everything else, comes in and out of fashion. It's trendy today because of the "Outlander" effect and DNA testing.
As for Clans, they ceased to have any political or economic influence after 1746. Many Lords actually evicted their own followers during the Clearances, just to make money. As a result, few in Scotland care about Chieftains and Clans. Why follow those who brought death, betrayal and destitution on your descendants?
It tends to be Americans, Canadians and Australians, who are looking to find their roots, no matter how tenuous, that are into Clans, Highland Dancing and all things tartan. Just go to a Clan Gathering and play spot the Scotsman. Too many are sold fairy tales and part with good money for tartans they have no connection to. It's big business in Edinburgh.
David Cramb I’m proud my ancestors were Scottish and I just enjoy the culture. You know we live in Cancel Culture where people expect you as a Scot to be offended by non Scots wearing a kilt.
I'm Puerto Rican, Italian and Irish. I respect the history of the Celts,and how they fought for their freedom, including the diaspora. I identify with the Celtic culture and even participate in the Highland Games. It is an attitude that I identify with and want to assimilate. Sláinte mhaith! Keep the culture.
Well Irish culture and Scottish Gaelic culture share a common background so you have the ancestral link but that doesn’t matter, you can be into it regardless of your background
I’m Scottish and Irish.
I’m in a FF pipe band and it’s flattering to hear when Italian American fire fighters want to join the band and as if it’s ok even though they are zero percent Celtic
I'm a Cornishman so I always wear a Cornish National Tartan item (or just my actual kilt) with pride! Heritage is an awesome thing, cherish it!
I’ve always been the kind of person that has gone down the road less traveled. After 21 years of Naval service I now am able to express myself and my heritage (German, Welsh, Irish, Scottish and Norse). With all that said, I’m not out to make a statement. Just me being me.
I am glad there are other people that are glad to be mutts. I wish it was an option on government forms. I am Scottish, Irish, English, French, German, and Native American......MUTT.
I'm Italian with a little German and Irish, but I was a drummer in a pipe band and that along with a once in a lifetime trip to Scotland made me fall in love with the culture, haggis and kilts. Now I'm taking on the bagpipes and just might be the only piper in Puerto Rico where I'll be retiring to in a little over 3 years.
I'm a soaked in the wool Scot too. If you want to wear a kilt and enjoy the swagger then 'go for it'. I personally have no beef about anyone either wearing a kilt or being seen in any particular tartan. I'd love for people to be happy and have the confidence to wear what feels to a man a......very open experience. Even in Scotland soooo many people love to see a smart dressed man in a kilt. It makes everyone smile. I love learning about kilts, sewing techniques and 'bites' of history that is NOT taught to Scots. My father grew up in a house in the highlands where gaelic was spoken, but not in his presence. This was to 'help' him in the modern world, as the language of business and progress was English.
DNA tests are an eye opener. My friend's dad got tested. The result showed he was 50% Italian. His mother has passed, now he's scratching his head. We are all an interesting mix.
I really love your videos and I enjoy seeing you cracking folk in kilts.
That's the problem with DNA testing, sometimes it opens up a whole can of worms. I've found something similar in my family, before DNA testing, and was warned not to ask any questions. When it involves living people, maybe somethings should be left in the past.
Depending on where/when your friend's father was born, it could have been an Italian POW. Lots of them worked on farms during the war.
@@davidcramb5793 My colleague confused me at lunch one day when he announced, "It's a strange day when you find out your uncle is really your half brother". Skin, hair, teeth were scattered by the coal bunker as hell was let loose between the dad and 'uncle'. You are right about leaving somethings in the past.
A couple of years ago I informed my Pastor that I would be absent on the next Sunday as My family and I would be attending the Kirkin at the Presbyterian Church downtown. I never miss the service and have participated for decades. He inquired as to the Tartan I would be wearing(presenting), I replied Johnston. He said I know you are Johnstons, but what Tartan do you wear. Ah..... that would be Johnston. We got a chuckle out of that, seams that I was the first person of Scottish decent that he had met that wears the Tartan of my paternal line.
My wife, future son and I will probably be moving out of WNY eventually. Would love to work for you guys designing buckles, decorative items, making kilts, and whatever I could do to advance the culture and keep it alive. I have a lot of unique designs for sporran cantles. I even started drawing up matching sets of decorative wear.
I got into kilts recently and connected with my Scottish ancestry. Like you guys I'm a typical American Heinz 57 mutt with (New York) German, Dutch, German-Swiss predominately in my father's family. I always knew my mother has Celtic genes through her red hair which I passed on to my son. Digging into my genealogy further revealed even more mixing of family genes. I have two great-grandmothers on my father's side who were of Scottish descent, highland Clan MacPherson and lowland Clan Lennox. My mother's side turned out to also have German, German-Swiss and Luxemborg ancestry (surprise), besides the expected McDermid sept of Clan Campbell, Irish-Norman from the last Geraldine Earl of Desmond, Gerald FitzGerald, Welsh and, of course a lot of English through my grandmother's Morley side.
I feel ya, that I know of I have Irish, German, Cherokee, Italian and a little bit of Scottish heritage!
So interesting about your backgrounds, did you know that there is a Germanic influence in the Scottish language.?
Do you mean Scots? Because Scots IS a Germanic Language.
Doch ja, freund! Aus der Saxon sprech.
English is a Germanic language, too. Wir studiere die Deutsche sprache.
Yes the further back we trace it, the more it goes back to old Germanic tribes who move westward into the Iberian Peninsula (France) and North into Doggerland and what would later become England Ireland And Scotland. There is a Germanic influence in all of those languages, as well as a mixture of others over the centuries. Fascinating stuff!
Scots dialect is more Dutch, Frisian and Norwegian influence than German. Germanic does NOT equal Germanic! They are not the same.
I had no idea y'all had a lot of German and Welsh where you are! I'm pleased to hear it. My fathers family is from Schuylkill county, a very ethnically mixed place, but he's mostly Welsh and German. I get my Scottish from my mother (Western North Carolina).
I am a direct descendant of the house of Scott, I was born in Wisconsin. I am proud of my family name and I want to embrace more of my clans heritage, I am happy to see other people embrace my ancestors culture
Member of the Mutt Clan also. Family is Ulster Scot by ancestry .
English, Scottish, Irish and German mostly with a bit of Norwegian also Archibald, Russell and Hunter are my closest Scottish links. Stewarts on both sides much further back. 100% Bona-fide all American Mutt and proud of it!
What about the LADIES? I am 1/4 Scottish (maternal grandfather) and I wear my SHAW plaid proudly to festivals. My kilt was made in Scotland. I usually wear it with a clan t-shirt and my tartan scarf (tied correctly for a married woman). I wear black hose and low boots. So, any more advice for the lassies?
I got into kilt wearing from my Scottish Rite degrees/ritual experiences since 2018, then confirmed my maternal family heritage with Smith, Stewart, Wallace from great grandparents. German heritage on my paternal side of family too.
Really Team Mutt here. My family's been American since long before there was a United State of. The closest "direct" link to Scotland is through my stepmother, who is a Stewart. So I stick to Universal tartans, except for my Stewart kilt. I wear that one for her, since my stepbrothers don't wear kilts.
Like most here in the U.S.. I am a mut. Three different countries to be exact. But, I too have that affinity for the tribal , clan bond. I guess it might have to do with having Robertson, Scott, Lorimer, and some other Scots in my heritage. I am a part of Clan Donnachaidh. And my wifes maiden name is MacAllister.
I'm a teeny bit of Scottish here. My great x9(?) grandfather was born in Argyll on Loch Fyne, (MacLachlan) and his grandfather married a McColl. Besides that, I have Irish, German, Dutch, Native American, French, English, and probably others as well.
My family has been in America since the Mayflower and surprisingly still very Scottish, Welsh and Cornish/Brittonic and Saxon, with late German admixture in the late 1800s. If you're related to Harold Drummond Williams who married Louise Snow then we're cousins and in the clan Drummond, and related to Mackenzies, Stewarts, Grants, Cathcarts, Wallace and Blair of Blair. That's just on my mom's side. My father's side is very Cornish and Yorkshire English and Welsh. I am mostly of Prydain stock and proud of it!
My surname is Haughey which is ancient Irish. I'm descended from Irish Kings in the 1st century. I did my ancestryDNA and shows that I'm half Scotch-Irish (Ulster Scot), quarter English and quarter Swedish/Norwegian. I now feel obligated to buy a kilt!
Barefoot Pirate Haughey is not that common,so when most irish people think of haughey they associate with charlie Haughey who was a rather flamboyant and corrupt irish taoiseach(prime minister). Just to forewarn you when you come to ireland lets hope your first name is not charlie.
@@galoglaich3281 😆 I am very aware of Charlie's history. I'm sure like any politician you have to have these characteristics. I have no Charlies in the family. I would like to know more about my surname. I do know there are Haugheys throughout Scotland, Canada, Australia, and USA (I believe I'm more Scot). I didn't know it wasn't a common name, how rare of a name is it and how do you pronounce it?(since it gets butchered here in the states)
@@barefootpirate Sorry i am only seeing your comment now.Hahhee is the usually pronounciation.Its more of a native irish name than ulster scot but due intermarriage it wouldn't be unusual.The term ulster scot usually refers to descendants of lowland scots and they are accepted as a separate group from the native irish,but in reality the people of the north of ireland and the scottish highlands have been mixing for centuries.
@@galoglaich3281 thank you for the response! I always get frustrated when I walk into an Irish store or Irish festival and I'm looking at all the surname merch and I can't find my name (especially on Irish name maps)! If it's an old native name then why wouldn't it be there? It also means "Horseman" or "mounted Knight"
@@barefootpirate This might sound strange ,but haughey is not the name you should be looking for,because its most likely only one of a dozen of anglicised form of the original gaelic name.From a little search i did keogh is one of the anglicisations and you will surely find that.Other forms are McCaughey Caughey hoey less common than keogh but you will definitely find keogh its very common.
About half my ancestors are from Northern Ireland and the other half are from Scotland and Wales....my wife on the other hand is of English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, German, and Dutch,.....they're Team Mutt.
I don’t think that as much justification needs to be made to embrace a culture that is receptive to being embraced. There are millions of non-Asians who fully adopt a love of Japanese culture, whether it’s calligraphy, food, manga, anime, fashion, music, etc. Scottish and Irish (or broadly Celtic) culture is also shared happily with people who have no ancestral connection. As long as it is done respectfully, then go ahead.
There are some cultures (having usually had bad histories with colonialism or oppression) that find imitation offensive, and so they may be happy to share food and music, might not be happy with non-members adopting dress, hairstyles, or tattoos etc. Canadian First Nations, New Zealand Maori, and Scandinavian Sami are but a few who would like it if you didn’t dress or style yourself with their identity.
Why was Coraline cut off before her chance to talk? Eric, where do you get your utilikits? I don't see any on the website.
She didn't have a mic in this episode. No reason other than that.
If you watch the majority of our videos, the person who is running the board / video feed, doesn't have a mic (either Adam OR Coraline).
Eric has a couple Utilikilts brand utility kilts.
@@usakilts thanks. Really enjoy your channel, btw. (I wear a kilt year-round.)
I am also a person who loves to wear a kilt every day no matter how much rain or snow or sunshine is beaming on my face, I also ride a motorcycle in my kilts and yes it blows up in front so sometimes people can see what's underneath, SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE
So I bought a utility kilt that is a mans not a woman’s ( mix up in the order, too late to send it back, and too expensive to ship back).
Plan to wear it for sporty stuff, anyway, is that any big no no.?
I am Clan MacMutt. A little MacLean, a little tobias, a little Long, a little Klingler, a little more Smith, a little more Patton. GOD help me my nose is even cold!
Yes bro represent
@@mattymaclean621 Patton is a Sept of Clan MacLean and Proud to be so. It's so good to hear from one of my own.
@@mattymaclean621 My Grandmother was a Klingler and Tobias Long was an Ancestor and Indian trader around the early 1800's in Ohio. and My Mother as I have said is a Smith. We Have much in common it seems.
@@thomaspatton4401 If you can mate you should absolutely visit the western isles and in particular Mull. You would absolutely love it.
@@mattymaclean621 I know that is where Duart Castle and our Clan Chief is. It ranks very high on my bucket list and I wish I could do it now but too many things are aligned against me at present, money being at the forefront. Thank GOD for the internet and for the research that I have been able to do. I have seen pictures of the castle and they are breath taking. I even have a copy as wallpaper on my computer. We Americans tend to go overboard on our involvement in heritage especially when I only found out about it three years ago. For me the first thing I wanted to know about was the history. How did the Patton's become Sept members of Clan MacLean? Who married who? Or How was it arranged? I still haven't narrowed it down that far as yet, but, I do know we were Noblemen who moved up from Shropshire, England early on and somehow Joined with the clan. I like to think it was the similarities between our two Mottos; the Patton's is "Virtute Adepta" which is Latin for, "Aquired by Virtue." and MacLean's is, as you well know; "Virtue Mine Honor" or, "Virtue is the Mark of My Honor." Personally, when I first saw that, I thought there was a lot more at play here than met the eye. No doubt there is plenty of story here that I just haven't found yet, one that will no doubt blow my mind when I do. And I thought the tale of the headless horseman was something of a conversation starter! It has become a passion of mine, finding the history and meeting members of my Clan family like you Matty. I have a saying; "In order to know where we are going in life, we first must discover where we have been." Do write back Matty, I do very much look forward to hearing from you again.
My dream as a kid was to learn to play the bagpipes and join a pipe band, which I was able to join a pipe band last year.
I’m mostly Scottish and Irish but I also have English, French, Portuguese, Cherokee and Choctaw. I’m a Heinz 57 mix of everything. But I feel most connected with my Scottish heritage and my last name is a Scottish Border Reiver name and Highlanders mixed in my mother’s side.
Im a Mitchell Clan which is part of a Stewert clan...
I am mixed lol
England and northwestern Europe, Scotland, France, Wales, Norway, Germanic Europe
My 5 grandmother and grandmother ( on my fathers side ) cames from Northern Ireland( where they all lived as far as i can find) to New York and since then my father side settled there. My father is the only one that went outside New York lol
So if your children have Campbell and Macdonald clans in their parents backgrounds, how do you bring both of those together in a tartan.?
Carol Reid this I’d like to know cause my dads Bullock (bulloch) which is a Macdonald sept and my mom has Campbell on her side
Typically, traditionally, you wouldn't wear both in the same outfit. You'd pick one and honor that clan in that outfit. That being said, you could have a second kilt for different occasions!
Very carefully .
Where's Lucas the Piper at/been? Hadn't seen him in ages, still with USA Kilts?
Yes, he is! He's our store manager.
My direct paternal line goes back to Argyll, to Clan MacDougall. My father's mother's line goes back to the Scottish Borders, and my Mother's side goes back the lowland Clan Ramsay.
excellent...
Campbell and Stewart??? Let the fireworks begin lol
i noticed something weird with brythonic and gaelic tartan
didn't the celts use colours for a compass?
welsh tartan, made sense
cornish tartan, made sense
breton tartan, also makes sense
so i believe that the celts may have had a even worse schizm
not just from the language but also due to different beliefs for tartan
from name to direction of your country
I have several lines to Scotland, Calder, McKinnan and a few others, but I also have dutch, wails, Manx(Isle of Man), also have aNorthern Europe King and Queen, I have ancestor who was a ship right for the Dutch East India Trade Co. I’m related to president Taft, Lizzie Borden and Davy Crockett. I’m as mutt as it gets. But I’m still Scottish. In decent.
There's ancestry that we know and then there's what we don't know that we find out with DNA analysis. My dad's family was from Vitulazio Italy and mom's family was mostly from the UK, Ireland and Germany. Thing is, when I did the DNA thing, I found out my dad wasn't 100% Italian as he thought he was. I am 22% west asian, which is to say Turkish, Armenian, Iraqi or Persian, so somewhere in that part of the world. It means he as almost half that. At first glance, I'd have to guess it was Dad's mother's side. I have a suspicion they were related to Chaldean Iraqis. Mom's surname is German, but after her ancestors came here in the 1700s, they pretty much intermarried people with English, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Anderson and Scott figure in. On her mother's side, it's English and Irish, the latter from Roscommon, the former traced back to the 1500s. One line came from Scotland to Cambridge with the surname Ely, but I can't find anything more about that one. He was born in 1688. My guess is he split in the early 1700s...So yeah, Americans tend to be mutts. My wife is a Watt, so I wear Buchanan. Maybe an Anderson or Scott tartan will be in my future. I'd like to know what an Ely would wear. I think he was from the Fife area.
James L please don’t consider a DNA kit a real DNA analysis because it isn’t. My sister is an Anthropologist and laughs at people that waste money on those things.
@@celtickiltculture I guess. It matches a lot of what I know about my ancestry, so it can't be that far off. If I had the dough, I would Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA to get some more detail. Argument from authority is kind of weak.
With me my ancestry is mostly English, Irish and Scottish however I do have a Grandmother that’s Swedish and German.
Scotch is what a Scotsman drinks. Scotch is a whisky. Dont confuse scots and scotch
I am defiantly a mutt, I have German, Celtic (both Scottish and Irish Clan Cameron, don't remember my Irish one) English, French, Norse, Dutch, Swiss, also had a Native American ancestor but that was 400 years ago, and a few others, all just on my mothers side. I know nothing on my fathers. My mother and her family traced our family tree back to around 400 AD. That being said I am American so most people don't give two shits especially the Europeans, and most Scotts probably don't care either if you have Scottish ancestry and want to wear a kilt, any one can wear one if they so wish, just do it properly if you are.
You have to wonder what the poor teuchters riding coffin ships on the way to an uncertain future in the New World, turfed off their land and the rafters burnt behind them so an absentee laird could run sheep and shoot grouse, would make of their descendants' fascination with the clans.
After what they'd been through, they'd probably think them mad.
obsession with clans it's normal, people usually love their family
They probably would at that, but learning one's past is far more important than holding a centuries old grudge over bad blood. One must "tak the high road," to coin a phrase. "In order to know where we are going in life, we first must discover where we have been."
I’m a Cochrane, but I’ve got ties to Kilgore and MacDuff. I’ve also got German and English. The English comes from the Deep South side of the family haha, very boring.
Im up in New Hampshire its all irish and scotts up here we actually in londonderry the Scott and irish put the first potato in the ground in north America in New England depending on where you are but NH scott Irish and french huge around were I am my dad wad adopted so I have that Italian last name but hes 50 percent scott Irish lol
It's a similar argument about the wearing of the Royal Stuart (Stewart) tartan.
One thing that gets me uggit is the way that Americans call us Scotch, we are Scots or Scottish but to carry that on Rocky, Eric and Mac you must have a lot of Scotch in you.
Campbell and Stewart? I thought they didn't like each other. Or way back when. My grandfather told me Stewart's don't like Campbell's. He said never trust a Campbell. Apparently our family has been feeding with them forever. I asked later and nobody knows why we don't like them. It's neat the culture and heritage we all have.
* feuding
I have a scotch last name Galloway but my DNA 🧬 has Baltic and Italian Iberian and some others idk 🤷♀️ its crazy
If there were a king of Scots, or a Queen, you guys would have been knighted, for services to Scots culture.
Thank you for the kind words!
Hear, hear! I'm for it Knight them! As Shwartzenegger would say; " What are you waiting for? Do it, Do it now!!!"
Thomas Patton. Totally agree. Whats wrong with enthusiasm? These guys have it in abundance. I wear my kilt when I want, not when someone elses convention or rules allows it. I'm retired now so I don't do anything as much as I did, including wearing the kilt, but the weather is improving. Long may your lumb reek! ( Long life to you.)
HERE HERE!!!
Mac an Tòisich!!!
All things considered, your thumbnail really should be demonstrating the army salute. The Royal Navy are not known for wearing kilts.
I have 10% Scottish Ancestry.I'll admit,I knew very little about Scotland until Outlander. Now,I am an obsessed Sassenach. I would love to see some traditional highland dresses and corsets and the whole 9 yards. Can you point me to someone who makes authentic highlander dresses? Sorry if this has been addressed before.
And don't concern yourself about your German heritage. The writer of Highland Cathedral is German.
Per DNA 93% Scottish/Irish/English. Yeah, I have the stereotypical red hair, freckles, and pale skin. Fun fact dark red hair is considered English and bright red hair is Celtic.
Clan Anderson
No dark red celtic light red norse or viking
Who the heck is clicking dislike? Anyway; thanks for all the great info y'all provide! I have learned so much from y'all's videos. I'm half Irish, 1/16 Abernathy, 1/8 Harper. So my Celtic heritage is where I focus.
Haters gonna hate. And we don't mind. It drives us to do more videos. 😁
@@usakilts of course,you cant always have everyone liking you,so,the best is to ignore haters.
I always dislike/downvote any comment that uses "Y'all".
I always dislike/downvote any comment that refers to "heritage". Americans are so oblivious that the rest of the world views the reference to heritage as one of thinly veiled white supremacy.
As a Scotsman, I just see this heritage stuff as just cosplay.
I am the 13th generation cousin of King James 6th / 1st of England. I thought it was strange years ago that I had Scottish mannerisms. And I found out the connection in 2016', This is through Clan MacDonald.
My daughter looks just like
Prince Charles Edward Stewart and it's kind of scary how close they are. And I look like King James 6th/1st of england and Robert the Bruce. (No wonder I scare people at night 😋). I was really surprised to find that my family has been in the United States since 1750's
in Kentucky from Scotland.
You and a million other people.
Thanks for the typical American response.
@@serpicosilkwood4664 one thing I found out about is that
there are a lot of people that are related to Royality and don't even know it. It is really interesting when you think of the spread of descendants over the century's.
Typical American response..?
I have 26 pages (?) of genealogy that was sent to me in 2016', right after I got out of the hospital almost dieing of diabeties and received the papers was was a big surprise to me. There is a normal work load that you have, I kept adding on and on.
Then before I knew it I was doing 3 times the work by myself. I had diabetes and didn't even know it, BE SURE THAT YOU TAKE TIME TO REST ! Watch your work load, it will sneak up on you. Stay safe and healthy. 👍