ok ok. i did say "modern american" culture, which is pretty seperate to what came befor it. but yeah your points were valid. oh by the way we have most of that crap too. northern finland to greece sortern tip of italy and spain. no cowboys though plenty of sheep rustlers (check out the big country(Wales))
yeah i get the differences, but having experienced the high plains of spain (my mum has a house there) until recently many people made a living with there stock camping out, in not too disimilar conditions to american deserts (infacxt when i first went it really struck me as how similar the landscape could be too many old…