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This is most North Americans. I've seen people wear Kilts on St Patrick's Day. Kilts are a English thing not an Irish thing and those who think there Scottish, traditional Scottish "Kilts" are more like Togas.
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I'm curious about this but not really able to find anything. The sources I'm finding online are saying that kilts are predominantly Scottish, they probably were adopted from Scotland by the Irish, they're representative of Celtic identity (so also Welsh, Bretons, and Cornish), and can be found in other places, but not seeing much about an English kilt? Anytime I'm seeing Brits and kilts, they're wearing highland kilts.
Apparently the word kilt is a Scots word (not to be confused with Scottish English) meaning to tuck clothes around the body.
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A letter written by Ivan Baillie in 1768 and published in the Edinburgh Magazine in March 1785 states that the garment people would recognize as a kilt today was invented in the 1720s by Thomas Rawlinson, a Quaker from Lancashire. After the Jacobite campaign of 1715, the government opened the Highlands to outside exploitation, and Rawlinson went into partnership with Ian MacDonnell, chief of the MacDonnells of Glengarry, to manufacture charcoal from the forests near Inverness and smelt iron ore there. So the story goes, the belted plaid worn by the Highlanders he employed was too "cumbrous and unwieldy" for this work, so, together with the tailor of the regiment stationed at Inverness, Rawlinson produced a kilt which consisted of the lower half of the belted plaid worn as a "distinct garment with pleats already sewn". He wore it himself, as did his business partner, whose clansmen then followed suit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_kilt#:~:text=The%20belted%20plaid%20(breacan%20an,worn%20by%20the%20Gaelic%20Irish.
Video on how the modern kilt was developed in the British army
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americans are a disease
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I ain’t American but I don’t believe a whole group of people deserves that kind of shade.
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The people don't. The whole American Exceptionalism thing -- which I was raised to believe by the Colorado and California public education systems, and remain sore about the countless deceptions intrinsic in its ideology -- can fuck off right to Hell.
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It's okay we do
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This is basically the Cliff's Notes of the history of the country of Liberia
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