Obviously, when speaking about any 2 people (even twins) much less large groups of people it’s impossible to make generalizations that are 100% true, 100% of the time. However, subcultures exist because the members within them share common traits. So it is possible to make generalizations about subcultures with a fair degree of accuracy even if there are exceptions to the rule. Also, this list only applies to American gangstas and cowboys. People from other countries who have copied these foreign (to them) subcultures are a whole other topic.
10. Xenophobia. Ask any gangsta or cowboy if they’re proud to be a gangsta or cowboy, and they’re both likely to give the exact same response, “Hell yeah.” Ask most Germans if they’re proud to be German and they’ll give you a lecture about how group pride will inevitably lead to xenophobia.
Xenophobia is defined as “An unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or anything perceived as foreign or different.
Even though there are exceptions you don’t have to throw a stick far in gangsta or cowboy circles to hit xenophobia. The more proud gangstas and cowboys are of their subculture the more they wall themselves off from the rest of society and fear new ideas and behaviors.
9. Guns. Aside from the military and the police force no other subcultures own as many guns or identify with them as readily as gangstas and cowboys.
8. Glorify mind altering substances. Even if you barely listen to any rap or country music chances are you can name a few songs from each genre that glorify getting fucked up. The methods may differ, but the end result is the same.
8. Glorify sports. Gangstas love basketball. Cowboys love (American) football. There is no denying this fact.
7. Conform to pre-set fashion standards. You can pick a gangsta or a cowboy out a crowd just by how they dress. I don’t even need to offer examples.
6. Glorify sex. Gangstas celebrate their preoccupation with fucking bitches and hos. It’s becoming more popular in country circles to speak openly about sex, but they still have a habit of hiding their true intentions by talking about love. But the smoke screen is usually pretty thing. They’re really talking about fucking, and they talk about it a lot.
5. Materialism. Gangstas and cowboys are typically poor, and yet they glorify material goods, specifically fashion and vehicles. Whether it’s a pair of Jordans or boots, doorags or cowboy hats, Escalades or F-150’s, pent houses or ranches, gangstas and cowboys place high value in owning material goods.
4. Based on a misinterpretation of obsolete cultures. Gangstas emerged as a response from racial oppression in the ghettos of America. Cowboys emerged as a response from working on ranches in the country. Most people who identify as gangstas live in the suburbs. Some even live in mansions. If you do live in the ghetto I guarantee you’re not worried that an elderly white man is going to steal your car or do a drive by on your house. That threat comes solely from another gangsta. The cure has become the disease.
Very few cowboys own cows or horses. The environmental conditions that gangstas and cowboys emerged from are obsolete, and the subcultures have taken a life of their own and evolved into a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy that fail to accurately address the realities of the current environment that the conformists of those subcultures live in.
3. Media driven. Since the trends of gangsta and cowboy culture don’t stem from their environment this raises the question, where do they stem from? The answer is blatant. They stem from the media. That’s where all the suburbanites learned about these subculture from to begin with, and it’s still their only link. Of course they got all their ideas from the media.
2. Don’t value intelligence. Sure, you could find a few exceptions among the celebrities of gangstas and cowboys, but for every exception I could find 3 who glorify ignorance. And if you just started pulling random gangsta and cowboys off the street you’ll probably end up with a ratio of 9 ignoramuses to every 1 intellectual. If you think this is close-minded and bigoted of me to say, then put it to the test. Grab 50 gangstas and 50 cowboys off the streets at random and ask them if they’ve read Noam Chomsky, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, or even Herman Hesse, Robert Heinlein or Isaac Asimov. Ask them how many essays they’ve written, how many languages they speak, how many countries they’ve visited, how many peer reviewed journals they’ve been published in. Just ask them how many news sources they read each week. If 40 of them have seen “Stephen Hawking’s Universe” I’ll suck a tranny’s dick. Any of them who have read “A Brief History of Time” or “Siddhartha” gets 2 points.
1. Their subculture is not based on humanitarianism and logic. Gangstas and cowboys base their culture on obsolete cultures and receive their present cultural direction from an entertainment-driven media that panders to base human desires for sex, prestige, violence, pride and material consumer goods. They’re xenophobic and don’t place a premium on intellectual growth.
If they based their culture on humanitarianism and logic they’d become citizens of the world, merging cultural innovation from every corner of the globe without holding onto any one too tightly. They’d adapt to their environment instead of fighting it, and they’d rise to the top of the social structure to hold positions of power and influence. They’d shun the media and its mind-numbing influence and speak against it in favor of intellectualism and self-actualization. But if they did all that they wouldn’t be gangstas or cowboys.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
^^^ Wow. The assertion that "gangstas" live in the suburbs and black people have no fear anymore and their oppression is a thing of the past. Just wow.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
Why do human beings still use the word "tranny" in earnest? The degradation of trans-people that I increasingly see is threatening to the trans population. :/
Why do human beings still use the word "tranny" in earnest? The degradation of trans-people that I increasingly see is threatening to the trans population. :/
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stoner metal > hip-hop
Is that also your reason?
you just go on eating your hair
I am going to lament the state of the third world now.
Obviously, when speaking about any 2 people (even twins) much less large groups of people it’s impossible to make generalizations that are 100% true, 100% of the time. However, subcultures exist because the members within them share common traits. So it is possible to make generalizations about subcultures with a fair degree of accuracy even if there are exceptions to the rule. Also, this list only applies to American gangstas and cowboys. People from other countries who have copied these foreign (to them) subcultures are a whole other topic.
10. Xenophobia. Ask any gangsta or cowboy if they’re proud to be a gangsta or cowboy, and they’re both likely to give the exact same response, “Hell yeah.” Ask most Germans if they’re proud to be German and they’ll give you a lecture about how group pride will inevitably lead to xenophobia.
Xenophobia is defined as “An unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or anything perceived as foreign or different.
Even though there are exceptions you don’t have to throw a stick far in gangsta or cowboy circles to hit xenophobia. The more proud gangstas and cowboys are of their subculture the more they wall themselves off from the rest of society and fear new ideas and behaviors.
9. Guns. Aside from the military and the police force no other subcultures own as many guns or identify with them as readily as gangstas and cowboys.
8. Glorify mind altering substances. Even if you barely listen to any rap or country music chances are you can name a few songs from each genre that glorify getting fucked up. The methods may differ, but the end result is the same.
8. Glorify sports. Gangstas love basketball. Cowboys love (American) football. There is no denying this fact.
7. Conform to pre-set fashion standards. You can pick a gangsta or a cowboy out a crowd just by how they dress. I don’t even need to offer examples.
6. Glorify sex. Gangstas celebrate their preoccupation with fucking bitches and hos. It’s becoming more popular in country circles to speak openly about sex, but they still have a habit of hiding their true intentions by talking about love. But the smoke screen is usually pretty thing. They’re really talking about fucking, and they talk about it a lot.
5. Materialism. Gangstas and cowboys are typically poor, and yet they glorify material goods, specifically fashion and vehicles. Whether it’s a pair of Jordans or boots, doorags or cowboy hats, Escalades or F-150’s, pent houses or ranches, gangstas and cowboys place high value in owning material goods.
4. Based on a misinterpretation of obsolete cultures. Gangstas emerged as a response from racial oppression in the ghettos of America. Cowboys emerged as a response from working on ranches in the country. Most people who identify as gangstas live in the suburbs. Some even live in mansions. If you do live in the ghetto I guarantee you’re not worried that an elderly white man is going to steal your car or do a drive by on your house. That threat comes solely from another gangsta. The cure has become the disease.
Very few cowboys own cows or horses. The environmental conditions that gangstas and cowboys emerged from are obsolete, and the subcultures have taken a life of their own and evolved into a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy that fail to accurately address the realities of the current environment that the conformists of those subcultures live in.
3. Media driven. Since the trends of gangsta and cowboy culture don’t stem from their environment this raises the question, where do they stem from? The answer is blatant. They stem from the media. That’s where all the suburbanites learned about these subculture from to begin with, and it’s still their only link. Of course they got all their ideas from the media.
2. Don’t value intelligence. Sure, you could find a few exceptions among the celebrities of gangstas and cowboys, but for every exception I could find 3 who glorify ignorance. And if you just started pulling random gangsta and cowboys off the street you’ll probably end up with a ratio of 9 ignoramuses to every 1 intellectual. If you think this is close-minded and bigoted of me to say, then put it to the test. Grab 50 gangstas and 50 cowboys off the streets at random and ask them if they’ve read Noam Chomsky, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, or even Herman Hesse, Robert Heinlein or Isaac Asimov. Ask them how many essays they’ve written, how many languages they speak, how many countries they’ve visited, how many peer reviewed journals they’ve been published in. Just ask them how many news sources they read each week. If 40 of them have seen “Stephen Hawking’s Universe” I’ll suck a tranny’s dick. Any of them who have read “A Brief History of Time” or “Siddhartha” gets 2 points.
1. Their subculture is not based on humanitarianism and logic. Gangstas and cowboys base their culture on obsolete cultures and receive their present cultural direction from an entertainment-driven media that panders to base human desires for sex, prestige, violence, pride and material consumer goods. They’re xenophobic and don’t place a premium on intellectual growth.
If they based their culture on humanitarianism and logic they’d become citizens of the world, merging cultural innovation from every corner of the globe without holding onto any one too tightly. They’d adapt to their environment instead of fighting it, and they’d rise to the top of the social structure to hold positions of power and influence. They’d shun the media and its mind-numbing influence and speak against it in favor of intellectualism and self-actualization. But if they did all that they wouldn’t be gangstas or cowboys.
this band is much better than the name would indicate
People being killed in a movie theater, that'd play well now
(see also: Keepin' It Reel)
^ What is that? :o