Nosebiting vampires? Man, would Buffy be bent out of shape. "Do you know how much Alexis PAID for that nose?"

There are many, many highlanders who would dispute that.

They'd be silly to do so. My great-grandmother was a McKinley born and bred. Doesn't make her (or me) a Scot. The point that we arrogant Colonials are trying to make is that our culture is a blend of other cultures, we relish that, but we have no less right to the classical European myths than do people born on the Old Sod. Back in 1400 my ancestors weren't Americans. I don't know what-all they were; English and Scots for sure, and probably a lot more that I don't know about. But Chartres is mine, and Stonehenge, and Olympus. The Albert Memorial, I'll give you. *g*

What I find rather interesting is that the myth of vampires in the Buffyverse is the same as the real vampires in the Buffyverse. The bumpy face, etc. Until Tabula Rasa, I thought their myth would be more like our (white face, cape, turns into a bat, walk around with fangs).

100 years is about the whole history of film.

Just to tie this back into the thread topic, in 1906 the movie The Story of the Kelly Gang opened in Melbourne. This was perhaps the first narrative film of any significant length in the world.

It isn't an arrogant point at all, Betsy. My ancestors are English, but when I went back to England I felt like the foreigner I was. I relate to the culture a fair bit, but it isn't mine.

There are many, many highlanders who would dispute that.

I guess some people feel that a cultural heritage stretching back into pre-history is worth standing up for. The Scots who left took their names with them but the name is Scottish and means "son of Donald" in gaelic.

I guess some people feel that a cultural heritage stretching back into pre-history is worth standing up for.

Now I'm trying to thing of a cultural heritage that doesn't stretch back into pre-history.

I'm not sure there is one.

Okay then. So then why are they being brought together?

But, Zoe, we're Americans now. I'm standing right here before you (well, metaphorically) with Scots blood and English blood and Bermudian blood and a whole bunch of blood I have no idea where it came from. I'm human. I have a cultural heritage stretching back into pre-history by that right.

And, frankly, if you traced your Scots blood back into pre-history, you'd find English invaders and Viking invaders and kidnapped slaves and God knows what-all. Human beings are a promiscuous lot.

This is a silly thing to be arguing about, but I don't think that anyone would dispute the name MacDonald being of Scottish Origin. But if the name is worn by an American or a Frenchperson or an Italian, that particular instance of the name is American or French or Italian. Sophia is a Greek name-- doesn't make me Greek.

Nosebiting vampires?

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