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Old April 22nd, 2019 #1
ColdFire
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Default 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