Culture
See also: Culture of Scotland and Culture of the United StatesSome of the following aspects of Scottish culture can still be found in some parts of the USA.
- Bagpiping and pipe bands.
- Burns Supper
- Ceilidhs
- Hogmanay, the Scottish New Year
- St. Andrew's Day festivities
- Tartan, some places in the USA having their own tartan. Additionally Scottish dress is worn by some Americans to celebrate their ancestral heritage.
Read more about this topic: Scottish American
Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)
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—Alice Neel (1900–1984)