There is a Scottish lady who comes to a local "Irish" session just to hear the music, although it is quite midwestern-ish American & Bluegrass-ized compared to my standards. (yeah, I know, it's all part of the folk process) I asked her to sing for us, despite the fact that the local folks were unaccustomed to people singing a song or air at a session. Now when she comes, she always sings for us only in Scots Gaelic--at the request of everyone. This is particularly important to me, as my own ethnic roots were stamped out by the maurading gangs of circuit preachers who sought to rid the "new world" of all things evil back in the days of my ancestors. Ancestors like my grandparents & aunts & uncles! Even in the early & mid 1900's they were on a mission to save us from the evils of song & dance--which were activities found in "dance halls" aka saloons, and evil by association with alcohol. Of course, it was not popular to exhibit ethnic cultural differences in those times. That way we could all be equally lacking in culture. So it seems around the world, even with "Democracy," there are always those people who are more equal than others, and therefore superior. So the inferior must be eradicated by the superior, or so they think. Take away the language, the music, the dance, the cultural customs & activities, and you have people who are nobody.