What other nation has to put with this, gets to be treated like a Geico caveman? So nice to see MacLeod of MacLeod dress tartan being shaped like a coin purse, then used as scant clothing and then used to illustrate cheapness, getting a free meal. Because that is what we do, we Scots. We hunt out ways to freeload, you know, when we aren't creating modernity. What other culture could the Globe and Mail treat with such casual disrespect?
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seanie - August 25, 2009 9:57 AM
lol :)
Alan - August 25, 2009 10:52 AM
Ape.
Seanie - August 25, 2009 11:25 AM
Hey, I'm just snickering that they chose your tartan, my being 1/2 Scot and all that. Hardly anyone outside of Scotland even knows our family clan exists :)
In truth, I'm quite surprised that this stereotype still hangs around. Imagine if they used a similar cartoon of Irish people as alcoholics to assist students curb binge drinking.
Jay Currie - August 25, 2009 5:39 PM
Sort of a "Don't be Irish" campaign with a soused leprechaun and a whiskey priest passed out beneath a four leaf clover.
Where Babs Hall when you need her?
Matthew Fletcher - August 25, 2009 5:56 PM
I checked the Globe link but couldn't find the graphic on their website - perhaps they have removed it?
My questions was whether this was a graphic created by the Globe or if it was one that had been cut and paste from some university undergrad publication? It looks very much like it might have been the latter. In that instance, the graphic, if it comes from a particular school, might be more a reflection of that particular school's Scottish heritage. Part of inventing modernity was the Scottish contribution to founding universities in Canada such as McGill, Queen's (my alma maters) and many on the East coast - the graphic could be more of a reflection of that contribution - particularly if originating at a school with a Scottish heritage.
Alan - August 25, 2009 7:14 PM
I think we all know that is a horse shit argument.
Ben (The Tiger) - August 25, 2009 7:38 PM
I say the Scots should just start unbelting a bit more, and disprove the stereotype.
Matthew Fletcher - August 26, 2009 8:22 AM
Actually, I think it a pretty plausible argument. This looks exactly like the type of thing that would get printed in one of the Queen's student newspapers, not out of any denigration of the Scots, but simply because tartans and tams are pretty common symbols and Queens. But again, I don't know the source of the image.
Alan - August 26, 2009 8:50 AM
Madness. Maybe you have to be a Scot to see conspiracy all around but this is clearly part of a larger plan.
Mike C - August 26, 2009 10:38 AM
Arther Herman's "How the Scots Invested the Modern Worruld" -- great book, that.
No, the tartan appears to be a Globe creation and is associated with their Mr. Miser character who shows Canadians the way to Scottish miserliness in areas unrelated to college life as well. Sad.
http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00075/penny16lf1_75084gm-a.jpg