Kilt Culture
I don't know what it's like where you live but here in Vancouver we live in an incredibly rich and diverse cultural smorgasbord. It's not a great melting pot. There are sections of the city that are dominant in one culture or another and celebrating your own culture is encouraged.
It's great to be able to go to the second largest Chinatown in the world, (San Francisco is bigger), or go to Fraser street and shop the huge East Indian market, or go to the Greek Festival, or the serene Japanese Gardens, or the Italian coffee shops on Commercial Drive, or Gung Haggis Fat Choy; a Scots/Chinese fusion dinner where you can get haggis won ton.
Everything about Vancouver is related to this cultural diversity. Every weekend is another festival celebrating another culture.
There are very few other cities where I could walk down the street wearing a kilt and get 99% positive comments from men and women. It has to do with the multicultural aspects of the city, with the acceptance of other's cultures and other's manner of dress.
I have seen men wearing saffron Buddhist robes, Arabic robes, sarongs, kimonos, and Chinese robes. There's even a Greek restaurant on Robson street that regularily has a staff member stand out front in a fustanella.
I have personally seen Chinese men, Arabic, Black, East Indian, and any other kind of guy you can think of in a kilt but rarely do you see another wrapped garment being worn by someone from a different culture. Kilts are easily the most recognisable wrapped men's garment in the world, so men of other cultures often wear kilts instead of their own culture's wrapped garmant.
There has been a kind of denial of culture by the Caucasian people on this continent. Why isn't as important as a new willingness to search out where we come from. Yes, we can be Canadians and Americans and still be proud of our heritages.
Just look at all the Vancouver cultures that do exactly that.
It's great to be able to go to the second largest Chinatown in the world, (San Francisco is bigger), or go to Fraser street and shop the huge East Indian market, or go to the Greek Festival, or the serene Japanese Gardens, or the Italian coffee shops on Commercial Drive, or Gung Haggis Fat Choy; a Scots/Chinese fusion dinner where you can get haggis won ton.
Everything about Vancouver is related to this cultural diversity. Every weekend is another festival celebrating another culture.
There are very few other cities where I could walk down the street wearing a kilt and get 99% positive comments from men and women. It has to do with the multicultural aspects of the city, with the acceptance of other's cultures and other's manner of dress.
I have seen men wearing saffron Buddhist robes, Arabic robes, sarongs, kimonos, and Chinese robes. There's even a Greek restaurant on Robson street that regularily has a staff member stand out front in a fustanella.
I have personally seen Chinese men, Arabic, Black, East Indian, and any other kind of guy you can think of in a kilt but rarely do you see another wrapped garment being worn by someone from a different culture. Kilts are easily the most recognisable wrapped men's garment in the world, so men of other cultures often wear kilts instead of their own culture's wrapped garmant.
There has been a kind of denial of culture by the Caucasian people on this continent. Why isn't as important as a new willingness to search out where we come from. Yes, we can be Canadians and Americans and still be proud of our heritages.
Just look at all the Vancouver cultures that do exactly that.
