Germans *adore* cowboys and I can't figure out why. I kept being asked if I could ride a horse and was a cowboy (I'm from New...
Anonymous asked: Germans *adore* cowboys and I can't figure out why. I kept being asked if I could ride a horse and was a cowboy (I'm from New England.) There's a cottage industry of Ecuadorians and Peruvians doing fake cowboy-and-Indian gigs in front of the Brandenburg Gate, which my half-Iñupiaq cousin reacted quite justifiably to with "what the actual fuck is this shit".
The Americas were the German frontier, before there was a Germany to colonize them people left for there
A big chunk of the US spoke German all along up til WWI where there was some serious anti-German repression
(The Americas were also the frontier for Pacific nations that didn’t have their own colonies, which is why Peru had a leader named Fujimori and why America had the Chinese Exclusion Act)
Also for a while Germans analogized themselves to Native Americans when they were getting back into their forest hippie tribal roots in the late 19th century, Old Shatterhand and that