Oh hells no! St. Andrew's Day is at the end of November. And Scotland Day (?--the Scottish diaspora celebrates it) is in April, when Culloden was. Two good opportunities to sip some Scotch.
Virginia, my home state, has a lot of people of Scottish ancestry and we have Highland Games festivals in the summer. I don't know if they have them in the UK, but they are a LOT of fun. Haggis, Scotch and half-naked hot men throwing cabers.
I have lots of Scandinavian blood as well, I know. St. Patrick's Day is bigger in the States than St. Andrew's or St. George's because the English and the Scots assimilated early and very well. They were never looked down on or considered an undesirable minority the way the Irish were (who didn't really start coming here until the potato famine in the mid-19th century). The St. Patrick's Day phenomenon (I'm assuming) grew out of the fact that they needed to feel proud of their culture.
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Date: 2007-03-15 08:59 pm (UTC)Virginia, my home state, has a lot of people of Scottish ancestry and we have Highland Games festivals in the summer. I don't know if they have them in the UK, but they are a LOT of fun. Haggis, Scotch and half-naked hot men throwing cabers.
I have lots of Scandinavian blood as well, I know. St. Patrick's Day is bigger in the States than St. Andrew's or St. George's because the English and the Scots assimilated early and very well. They were never looked down on or considered an undesirable minority the way the Irish were (who didn't really start coming here until the potato famine in the mid-19th century). The St. Patrick's Day phenomenon (I'm assuming) grew out of the fact that they needed to feel proud of their culture.