Why aren't americans on here more proud of their wild

>>76743064
Wild west theme >>>>> USA's World wars theme >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> USA's Civil war theme

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>>76743064
Its become so much a part of contemporary life

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>>76743064
Americans these days are taught that their country is shit and it's bad to be proud of it.

I still like the Wild West though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaFbMbyoqek

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Oregon's claim to fame is our wild west heritage

>>76745442
Why are they pretending to be asian in that webm?
That's bretty raycis

>>76744948
>Wild west theme >... > USA's Civil war theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryo8RtIYBnU

>>76745564
mexican standoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PgAKzmWmuk

>>76743064
because the states that were actually involved in that period have low populations and barely post here. I like westerns though.

is the old west well known in other countries? why or why not

Why didn't Europe have a similar period

>>76745878
The Old West is popular as fuck in most western countries, I don't know about eastern or the third world but from what I remember of history class, Stalin was a fan of American Movies.

>Why
Because of Western movies.
I love John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.

>>76743064
>Why aren't americans on here more proud of their wild west heritage?
What kind of WW heritage do modern americans have? Most of them probably were farm or railway workers, if any of them ever got to the West
Real Wild West wasn't as fun as "My name is Trinity" or "Django Unchained" and it was tougher life than in "Once upon a time in the West"

>>76746121
As far as I've heard, none of Stalin's favorite movies was a western. He preferred music comedies (like "His butler's sister" and soviet "Jolly fellows"). And, of course, Charlie Chaplain's "City Lights"

>>76745878
How could it not be when the most famous western movies are Italian and the most famous western comic books are franco-belgian

>>76745878
the best selling german author in history wrote mainly wild west fiction

>>76747931
BUMP

>>76746092
We did, its called the migration period.

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Because only a few of us have Wild West Heritage. I think it's cool though and I share it via being an American citizen but it's not mine in a deeper sense.

>>76743064
I am from New England. We had nothing to do with the wild west

>>76749690
Same, Massachusetts here. The wild west and the "gold rush" almost seems like a myth to me.

MINE CALIFORNIA GOLD AGAIN

>>76746860
Wasn't he also the faggot who projected German culture/values onto Native Americans?

Because believe it or not, most american's ancestors immigrated after the wild west period or never had ancestors that were western pioneers.

>>76745493

HELL YES!

Almost everything you know of the Wild West has been romanticized to the point of absurdity

99% of it was just farming and 1% was dying of dysentery

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But I am

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*Murders Buffalo Bill*

>>76745442
>Americans are taught that their country is shit
In what fucking state? Commiefornia? I don't even think they do that there.

>>76745442
you are making no sense.

>>76749000
This
My heritage takes the form of summer fairs with deep fried everything.
t midwesterner.

>>76753457
Homesteading you mean. It was the cowboy that got romanticized. Cowboys were lowly rejects of society that took the most dangerous job because it was all that was available. They werent good looking or heroic. Whatever they earned after a cattle drive they spent in cowboytraps like oklahoma city, wichita, dodge city, etc. just to do it all over again until they die of snake bite

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>>76753545
I wanna go there.

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>>76753591
It's very nice

Too many states with too many different cultures, and far, FAR too many local events and equally little national events beyond meme holidays to have any genuine overlapped national pride in anything. If you like cowboys and the wild west, people just dismiss you as either being a midwesterner, a texan, or some gun-obsessed redneck.

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>>76753608
Are there a lot of injuns there in the summer?

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>>76753642
A lot of them and a lot of tourists

Spring/Fall are best because the parks usually aren't snowed out and are relatively relaxed

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>>76753662
Ugh. I doubt there are as many there as there are here, though.
More western landscapes are required

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>>76753698
They're like 20% of the state, even if they're all on the reservation they'll bus up to Devils Tower for """prayers"""

Tourists generally forget about here except for nature junkies

>>76753413
yes, he was a turbo christfag and a petty criminal

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>>76753735
I wanna see the tower because of that one movie desu
Wind Cave and Badlands are also bretty cool looking

>>76743064
because it was just one part of their country

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>>76753746
>Petty criminal
Good to know because quite a few German tourists here come for "Native culture" and leave disappointed

>>76753791
They're nice, but Sheridan and the Little Bighorns are GOAT

"Wild West" is mainly fictitious.

Cowboys were literally just cattle herders who got displaced after the invention of barbed wire.

Lots of the stuff we consider to be Wild West is the product of Hollywood romanticization of the period.

>>76745878
Old west is hugely popular in NZ

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>>76753840
Pretty sure I would be blown away/freeze to death in Wyoming, kinda prefer Montana.

>>76753867
but the romanticization is SO GOOD

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>>76753904
>Wyoming will be too cold
>I'll go to Montana instead
lol

>>76753867
Everything gets romanticized. Real life has always been boring as fuck

>>76753967
b-but muh glaciers and lakes and mountains
also my favorite brewery is there

>>76753991
Wrong it is very exciting especially the part where I die

>>76753994
It's chilly, weather sucks assbutt

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>>76754021
rip my dreams
I would have liked to see Montana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8JW75Lv25k

Im from Idaho, lived in the American West all my life. We take huge amounts of pride in our heritage, so much so that those of us in the Western States try to downplay how good it is here so Easterners don't move here. If you come from a state that is east of the Rockies or doesn't have them run through it, Fuck off cunt, we're full.

>>76754150
Live in Washington State now desu

>>76745878
yes
Most people have seen some sort of wild west media like 3:10 to Yuma, Hateful 8 and RDR (my personal choices off the top of my noggin)

>>76754150
Ask someone from the American West anything I guess, if you Euros really are curious about it.

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>>76743064
Because Cowboys were Anglos or Scots, just look at the surnames of all the famous ones and not the Germans and Italians who've since invaded

>>76743064
I'm from Virginia and I call myself a freedom cowboy, instead of just American
or whatever meme name people use for us when I post on the internet

>>76754213
Do many people live outside of towns and villages just on their own? That's what amazes me. Here a farm far outside is never more than 3 miles from the next village and 10 from a small town. And my county is among those with the lowest density in Germany.

>>76754201
I recommend Deadwood for you. One of the best tv shows ever with great dialogue and acting.

>>76754451
There are people that love in isolation. There's more than enough hospitable land to do it.

>>76755844
*Live

As others have pointed out, that only applies to a relatively small chunk of our population, and even then a lot of the Wild West is hyped up. Furthermore, many of the people inhabiting the American west are transplants from other regions. I have family that used to live in Minnesota move and settle in Arizona.

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>>76743064
Posting 100% white maine state.

>>76753867
The wild west was clearly more violent than other parts of the country though

>>76758672
Many of the western settlers were immigrants from Europe who wanted land at any cost, like my Scots-Irish Welsh German Spanish great grandparents. Often were poor, uneducated, possible criminals, etc.

Here's a quick wiki overview of the period:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny

why is belgium so obsessed with wild west? its like a whole comic genre over there right? that and smurfs

>>76743064
Because what we think we know about it is mostly false as fuck and comes from old movies.

>>76745442
I like the sound and tone those old western pianos made.


style of their own

>>76763166
>>76758672

>>76757223
>moving from comfy minnesota to hot arizona

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>>76763113

>>76745442
Really? I guess American education isn't that bad after all

>>76748963
>The Migration Period was a time of widespread migrations within or into Europe in the middle of the first millennium AD. It has also been termed the Völkerwanderung (German)[1] and, from the Roman and Greek perspective the Barbarian Invasions.[2] Many of the migrations were movements of Germanic, Slavic, and other peoples into the territory of the then Roman Empire, with or without accompanying invasions or war.
>The migrants comprised war bands or tribes of 10,000 to 20,000 people,[3] but in the course of 100 years, they numbered not more than 750,000 in total, compared to an average 39.9 million population of the Roman Empire at that time.

Are there any nice documentaries or movies about this

>tfw grew up thinking America was all double swinging door saloons, pistols at dawn and cowboy hats

In reality it's just Mexicans and dindus shooting each other

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>>76766889
Nah you're just gay s'all

>>76743064
Because it's mostly just Hollywood romanticism and not reflective of reality. Wild West fucking sucked and was miserable to live in.

Plus western states don't have the population that eastern states do so there isn't as many people from those parts. Even than were pretty far divorced from those times, most people in the west moved there after air conditioning was invented.

>>76743064
It's very non-white contrary to Hollywood memes.

>>76745442
[citation needed]

>>76767285

Yet, it's always been the most iconic America, from an outside point of view.

It's basically where the idea of being and living free in the middle of large open spaces nature stems from.

>>76773902
sounds comfy desu

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westerns are top tier movies

The "wild West" never really happened. It was shitty genre fiction in dime novels, then became shitty genre fiction in movies. The 30s and 90s were more "wild" than the wild west and had larger shootouts between gangsters and lawmen.

>>76777545
T. Not from a southern state

>>76777717
Thank God. I see you're True Dixie, Gustav.