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April 22nd, 2019 | #1 |
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The Wild West
Many people have a fascination for the 'Wild West' or American West as it's also called of the 19th century. . I can understand that. . It was a point in Caucasian history where people were 'free to make their fortune' , had 'adventure' and so on . . Apart from that it was a time of lawlessness in the sense that people could be autonomous ( I admit , to the point of dueling each other ) . . The state wasn't so strict back then . . The fascination for the American West is present everywhere . . Well , not all details may be correct , in retrospect ,as it is often painted today . . For example , cowboys , in the word's truest meaning , weren't the "heroes" they are portrayed as ( cowboy was a profession of people having to look after the cattle ) . . The fact that "cowboys" per se are associated with the American West is because they were the "truest" "Wild Westerners" . . And it is a hardly known fact that the cowboy in the American West was often even black or Mexican . . ( that profession brought it with itself . .) . . Anyway . . I hear some towns / villages in the U.S. still hold up an "American West"-mentality . . Also , concerning race , it was quite a "racist" time against non-Europeans . . . It was also a change in culture in the U.S. . . while in the beginning ( the time of the Founding Fathers ) the language of the U.S.A. must still have been a British English , from 1800 on , due to many Irish settling there the language pronouncuation must have changed from a 'British English' to pronounciation similar as in Ireland . . Example of British english . . . . example of Irish pronounciation . . . . . The American Western culture drew hard on Irish customs . . 'Hillbillies' , drinking Whiskey , dancing reel for example . . Well . . times changed . . . . today the American West is history . . But it shall forever stand as a fascinating epoch of Caucasian history . . From the life-circumstances it may have been pretty 'back to basics' but it sure was a great epoch . . Today it is viewed with fascination everywhere . . . The 'pushing westward of the frontier' was ended in about 1900 . . 'Urbanization' began . . But the spirit of the American West still lives on . . Yee-hawww . .! ! from Germany |
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