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John Allan & Caitlin

An ancient Scottish tradition is the highland dancer performing with bagpipe accompaniment. At a dinner event, instructor John Allan performes a strathspey, a slower type of Scottish dance music, for highland dancer Caitlin. Caitlin is the daughter of a Shin-Issei, Japanese mother and a Scottish-American father and practices highland dancing at weekly private lessons. As a mixed-race, Japanese-American, I was extremely excited to see another mixed-race Japanese-American who was passionate about the Scottish arts at such a young age.