Celtic Moment

I make a Scottish sweet called ‘tablet’, it has a kilo of vanilla sugar, 100g of butter, a can of condensed milk and a little milk to dampen the sugar. It turns out a bit like crumbly fudge, it’s so yummy. Anyway, I’ve heard of a Mexican sweet that is supposed to be similar, it’s called something like tableta delisca or tabaleta de liscia, sorry I have no Spanish at all, not one word, so I’m working from memory (and without a net heehee) I probably have written it totally wrong, but saying it aloud may ring a bell, coz I’ve so got the spelling wrong. Has anyone heard of it? I know I’ve not made it easy on you all, but if anyone out there knows what I’m on about I’d love a recipe for it so I can try it. It also makes me wonder about the names, you know, tablet and tableta or tabaleta, they’re very similar, I wonder how that happened, what with Mexico and Scotland being on other sides of the globe and all. I can’t even Google it because I don’t know the actual name. Any one have a recipe or remember their Nana making it, even the real name of it would help, I could Google it then.

Like Braziliian = Bossa Nova, beach umbrellas, Carnaval, very distinct culture, Samba drums, traditional holidays, tropical paradise

Italy – Wine, villages, family-oriented, food, music, folklore, all tie into a sort of culture distinctly identified when one hears or tastes of it

French – Very romantic, pastries, art, film all tie into a culture
Tex-Mex, Latin, West African cuisine and ornaments, many of these speak for themselves.

But when it comes to these countries (Canada, US, modern UK, Netherlands, modern Australia, even modern China, it is more subtle and not so clear where the folk culture has evolved).

Scandinavian folk culture is something of a much older agricultural generation in days of crafts, basket-weaving, fiddle, wooden churches. Today’s Scandinavian culture is not that folksy, except in the older population. Today’s Scandinavians are influenced by globalization.

Scottish highland culture best preserved in the Canadian Maritimes is also more prevalent among older aged people. Today it is not so much anymore, today most of the music and food is globalized.

Australia, once known for Bushmen and sheep herding is now becoming globalized 1st world. Or should I say, Americanized.

The most folksy parts of Canada would be Islands in the Maritimes, Inuit villages in the north, towns in Quebec, but the rest of Canada is much more difficult to slice and dice. And even what is heard of Quebec culture is disappearing, just the spoken language is there.

Why isn’t Canada on its own terms an ethnic creation in itself and why are the ethnic immigration cultures losing their vibrance?

Is it possible that in Democracy and the society we opt for in this day and age, we are losing something? That other forms of government enabled a higher level of ethnic vibrance than a free society can make possible?

That perhaps the greatness of not living in a monarchy, but a free democracy where you can do anything you please if you have money, comes with a cultural price that people of years ago were aware of, and we today have forgotten?
or possibly local nations offer something more unique when they do not trade freely with their neighbours but rather build their own way of life from scratch?

Globalization is changing everything. It is fortunate time travel is impossible, because then we too would have NO history of renaissance, medieval, baroque, classical, all that would be globalized to be modern modern modern McDonaldsy-Coca-Cola-eee

I don’t want to make a big deal about race or anything, I just want to know whether is would be weird for a person of Mexican descent to wear a celtic cross pendant. I just really think that celtic crosses are very nice and ornate, so I would like to wear a necklace of a small celtic cross – nothing too big or flashy, but one that is a modest size