A Native South American, from the lost tribe of Govan.

It's hard not to think about that episode of Rab C Nesbitt when it turned out that the Peruvian Indians turned out to be a bunch of Scammers from Govan. These "Peruvians" above do a remarkably succesful job of spoofing the locals into thinking they are fresh from the Andes.

However a few moments of Rational Thought helps when you remember that every non-euro citizen has a limited stay visa and that people who perform on the streets require a license or schein - probably in triplicate. So it is hard to imagine that a bunch of illegal aliens would have no problem at all busking on the streets of Ulm. Wrong!

The other thing is that the names and costumes are a weird combination of

a) everything off the telly and
b)The Stereotype of indegenous North American peoples.

I mean, doesn't that headdress style sort of stop around Wyoming and the Sioux Nation and isn't that guy at the back wearing a sporran? Shouldn't they be dressed as Inca or Aztec or at the very least blimming Mexicans.

Great con, looks ethnic, sounds ethnic, feeds the national notion of the noble savage... er begging and looks on the surface to be sort of educational. Should work for most Germans then!

Most Germans believe, as I have mentioned before, that Scotland is the land of Rosamunde Pilcher an English woman, whose slush novels have everyone here thinking that all Scots live in a manor house and chase deer up and down the highlands in a kilt - usually confusingly called a skirt despite the movie Gladiator and or Troy being so succesful here. Oddly they also believe that Mrs Pilcher is either German or worse Scottish. With a name like Pilcher too - even though her maiden name is Scott she was born in sunny Cornwall.

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