Kilt-ban student flies in to trace his tartan roots
A TEENAGER who was banned from wearing his kilt to a high school dance has been flown to Scotland by a United States radio station to trace his roots.
Nathan Warmack, 18, made the news in November last year when his school in south Missouri refused to allow him to enter a dance wearing a kilt.
At Dalhousie Castle, in Midlothian, yesterday, Mr Warmack said: "This is the first time I have been anywhere outside the United States. It was the movie Braveheart that got me interested in my Scottish roots."
Our original name was Macraw and our family was involved in a war against the English in the 17th century. When they left for America they changed their name to Warmack."
According to VisitScotland, ancestral tourism is worth about 153 million each year. An estimated 11 million Americans have Scottish ancestry.
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