Overview
A cowboy (カウボーイ, kaubōi) is a person who works as a cattle and horse farmer in the United States of America. In art and culture, they are a great inspiration for American Western shooting action movies. They get confused with gunmen, perhaps due to the influence of western movies. Cowboys were also armed with firearms for self-defense and hunting, but they were different.
On pixiv, this tag is mainly applied to illustrations of characters wearing hats, scarves, jeans, and other stereotypical fashion.
Although cowboys are portrayed as exclusively white in old westerns, there were many African and Hispanic (Latin American) cowboys in the actual western frontier period (there were other minorities such as Chinese people but these were the big two). The portrayal of cowboys in recent westerns and unorthodox westerns such as macaroni westerns, which take political correctness into consideration, is more faithful to historical facts than in old westerns.
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カウボーイとは [単語記事] - ニコニコ大百科 (NicoNico Encyclopedia)
