Anyway here’s some additions from the Maasai and Kikuyu, two grassy plain-dwelling groups from Eastern Africa that I think count as unfuckwithable
Feel like Poland should be included since we’re literally called “people of the fields” according to the etymology of Poland.
Also look at her GO
I’m Métis, here’s some of ours! You’ll notice it looks remarkably similar to the above.
We also have some less intricate clothing (if it looks a bit Victorian to you - that’s pretty much the right era for most of this!)
Can’t believe no one’s done it yet I will be the person to add the cowboys: Latin American focus.
Here is the Chilean huaso:
Gauchos, from primarily Argentina where they’re a large national symbol close to the level of cowboys in the US. Also gauchos are in Uruguay. Their pants are called bombachas and the other garment wrapped around them are called chiripas. They work in grasslands called pampas, known for being really fertile:
While they’re not as dressed up as the others or have as prominent of a culture, for a broader Latin American cowboy context, I feel like also adding llaneros, who are from Colombia and Venezuela, in the llanos region, a type of tropical grassland similar to the pampas, hence the name llanero. Pampas get annual flooding and these guys would go barefoot a lot, and you can see that the stirrup on the horse’s saddle is really different than what you’re probably used to seeing, to accommodate for that, which is what I want to point out as an aspect of plains cultures developing clothing/accessories/tools to suit the environment.
Cowboy culture happened wherever Spanish colonial influence and grassland biomes came together. They differ based on the grasslands having different climates (ex tropical in South America), and the local indigenous influence (ex, backtracking to gauchos, they would use this tool called bolas to catch animals, which were basically two balls tied to a string that you threw and it spun around an animals legs, and were an indigenous invention):
I would love to keep posting cowboy dress lol but will stick to the post’s theme of grassland of course.
Adding to the post, I, hereby, present people of Kalash and Chitral:
Chitral means ‘field’ in the native language Khowar. Both Chitralis and people of Kalash are known to be indigenous people of Asia.
Imagine that you’re standing in a room with a ceiling. Whenever you get scared the floor rises and threatens to crush you against the ceiling. Once you get crushed against the ceiling, that’s it. You can’t function.
Let’s say most people are about 20 feet from the ceiling when at rest. This is how close they are to being crushed by their stress and anxiety at any given average time in their lives. Sometimes in the worst most stressful moments the floor might smush them, but usually it’s whatever.
Previously, I was constantly at 5 feet. At any given moment I was hunched over, one really stressful day away from being crushed completely, never fully able to function normally.
Now, with antidepressants, I’m at like 10 feet. Still closer to completely losing it than the average Joe but really bad days mostly just slow me down now.
Anxiety and depression meds don’t like… make the problem go away. It’s more like they lower the floor a bit. Move you from carrying around 200 pounds to carrying around 50 pounds. Sure, maybe the average person isn’t carrying around any weight but it’s significantly easier to get out of bed when you’ve got less weight to carry around.
Anyways. I bring this up because I wasn’t sure what anxiety meds would actually do before I took them. But in the long term that’s basically it. You get a bit more wiggle room in your day to day. And it’s nice. Nothing about your personality changes and your mental disorder doesn’t even completely go away. It’s just like… a bit easier. That’s it. Just lowering the floor a bit.
