- Tartanry
Tartanry is a word used to describe the
kitsch elements ofScottish culture that have been over-emphasized or super-imposed on the country first by the emergentScottish tourist industry that grew up with theBritish state in the 18th and 19th centuries, and later by anAmerican film industry .Tartanry refers to often mispresented or invented aspects of
Scotland such as clantartan s,kilt s,bagpipe s,Scottish Gaelic and Highland culture more generally.While the Highlands were relatively peripheral to the functioning of the Scottish nation-state, the
Hanoverian ascendency and theBritish government , which followed from the Act of Union between theScots Parliament and theEnglish Parliament in 1707, selectively promoted aspects of Scots Highland identity for both sentimental and practical reasons. The British state co-opted the military tradition of the Highlands and used this to create crackScottish infantry regiments wearing Crown approved uniform tartan. In this way, the recruiting of the poor into an imperial military thus became a selling point of British Scotland.ee also
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Scotlandshire
*Scottish cringe
*Scottish national identity
*Visit of King George IV to Scotland
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