{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "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...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/184573434628/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> 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-I\u00f1upiaq cousin reacted quite justifiably to with \"what the actual fuck is this shit\".</div>\n<p>The Americas <i>were</i> the German frontier, before there was a Germany to colonize them people left for there</p><p>A big chunk of the US spoke German all along up til WWI where there was some serious anti-German repression</p><p>(The Americas were also the frontier for Pacific nations that didn\u2019t have their own colonies, which is why Peru had a leader named Fujimori and why America had the Chinese Exclusion Act)</p><p>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</p>"}