The Invention of Tradition

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In Chapter Two, Hobsawm notes that Scotsmen celebrate their national identity with common symbols, such as the kilt and the bagpipe. They ascribe these elements to antiquity but they are modern, developing after union with England as a form of protest. Some of these items and practices existed in the past in primitive form but at the time Scotsmen saw them as barbaric and representing backward Highlanders.

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The Invention of Tradition