If Cowboys, Charros, Gauchos are originally Spanish-Latinos, why Easterners associate US Americans with'em?

Question

In the Middle East and Far East people imagine Mr. President Bush and miost Westerns like Cowboys, like esterns imagine them in Camels like Beduinos.

Answer 1

Hollywood movies--the only things that seem to be completely accepted throughout the world without a truth check since the silents of the nineteen twenties.

Answer 2

Jesus was actually the illegitimate child of Mary, a Palestinian and possibly a Roman soldier. He would have looked like most Palestinians today. In that time in the area that Jesus live (Israel and Palestine) most people were Jewish. If they weren't Jewish they were Pagans. Jesus was a Jew, until he began getting Prophetic teachings from "God" and then made his own version up. It's the same thing that happen to Mohammend when he created Islam. The Old Testament is Jewish, the New Testament is the work of Jesus's Christian disciples. Christainity believes in the words of Judaism but gives it's own modern interpretation. Islam believes the words of the Old and New Testiment but gives a more modern interpretation in it's Quoran There is nothing ironic about Americans loving him, because there is no irony in a lack of intelligence.

Answer 3

Probably because for a couple hundred years most people who lived west of the Mississippi river were actually real life cowboys. And the western US is still a place where real life cowboys still live and work everyday. It may have originated in another culture but is a big part of America's history. Just look at things like Santa Claus(scandanavian) and the Statue of Liberty(from France) that's what makes America so neat...our culture is actually hundreds of cultures mixed together.

Answer 4

John Wayne, pilgrim!

Truthfully, the American West has been romanticized so much that most people tend to think of Wayne or Clint Eastwood.

Answer 5

I'm from the west, cowboys weren't all originally latinos. The cowboy subculture was larger than that. You're listing different groups that lived on ranching but neglecting also that their were anglo-cowboys that existed along with the rest.........and was glorified in popular culture. Charros and Gauchos were spanish-latinos, but gringo cowboys existed along with the rest.

Answer 6

some people are just ignorant, why worry about it.

Answer 7

You no make sense.