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I think there has to be a balance between inviting the world to participate in your country and actively nurturing home grown talent. In one sense I do like the fact that in competitions, there emerges a winner and to quote Abba " The winner takes it all". Forget nationality, judge what is 'best'. However, it does sometimes seem like a culture is encouraged whereby all things foreign are deemed better. It's as if to employ foreign architects is seen as more multicultured, exotic etc - even if their work is not any better than homegrown talent! I do agree that the article is quite patronising - to suggest that Scottish architects can only excell if they design things that are stereotypically Scottish. And to further imply that Scottish architects are deserving of being ignored when they don't design in a traditional Scottish style is also a little strange. I mean, a lot of the issue is not that Scottish architects are producing weaker proposals, it's that there seems to be a desire to bring in foreign architects regardless!