Hi, Argentinian here, half my family lives in a rural area of Buenos Aires, near to the border of the province of La Pampa. You made a awesome resume of what's the essence of being a Gaucho. I'd like to add a few things, first of all there're much more variety to this culture dependent of which part of the continent you analyze (for example in Argentina i believe each province has a specific poncho design), the gaucho activity clothes and line of work may vary depending on climate aswell, for example in the southern patagonia you couldn't breed cows so that's why sheep is the main cattle. And if you look up in the northen point of argentina where is more arid desert-like climate gauchos may vary again. About the pronunciation, in ARG and UR we say "gau-cho", you said it like brazilians says it "ga-u-sho". And the knife it's "fa-con", the c reads like a k. I agree with the last brazilian gentleman, today the true gauchos are almost gone, but the culture lives true inpersonated in the rural and agricultural laborman, it's in our folklore, deeply rooted in our culture. Gauchos work the land and love the land, they are amaizinly kind and humble. My uncle for example breeds horses and cattle, his horses are widely known in his town, he and my cousin even went to several parades, fully dressed and the herd horses following the alpha mare (my uncle's horse) with no lassos or rope. Thanks for your video, was spot on nontheless. Have a good one :)
Um Gaucho do Brasil aqui, o tirador é usado apenas em uma perna (na direita a cavalo, e na esquerda a pé) porque ele serve para "tirar a dor/marca" que o laço faz na calça quando ele é esticado, usado na direita no cavalo para quando laçar um boi o laço não sujar a bombacha (bombacha é o nome da calça grande) que não é tão resistente quanto a jeans e na esquerda a pé pois normalmente quando vamos castrar um boi o laçamos a pé pelas patas dianteiras isto chama castração a pealo, e para o laço não foder sua mão apoiasse ele na perna por cima do tirador exemplo th-cam.com/video/Lry6-ptogfo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=OTohHCtd76k4wMKj
Interesting glimpse to Gaucho culture but a little bit sketchy yet. First: All of Argentina and Uruguay territories are "gaucho's land"; they can proudly and whitout hesitation state that both are "gaucho nations"; that's the backbone of River Plate's culture; certainly both countries irradiate that culture with the same intensity but Argentina, because it's bigger and with more varied regions an well as the particular differences between them, is the real epicenter of the gaucho culture, which reaches also southern territories of Bolivia, almost all of Paraguay and even the chilean part of Patagonia, apart of what you've already mentioned; then, the gaucho's culture is way more spreaded than you described. Second: The most coincident (almost universal) etimology of the word "gaucho" states that it comes from a northern argentine native expression: "huacho" or "guacho", that means "without parents", because of their wandering life and mixed origin between white and indian. That original word is still used in their original despective meaning in present River Plate's spanish but has nothing to do with "gaucho", derived from it but become modified as times went by. However, nothing could had become more different from it's origin that the concept of "gaucho"; today is an adjective that encircles the most remarcable human virtues; if someone refers to other as a "gaucho", means that that person is hardworking, reliable, honest and generous; anyone could feel proud of himself if receive this word as a depiction of how other sees him; if someone does for other/s a favor or so and he's doing it selflessly, he (or she) is doing a "gauchada" (a gaucho's favor); if someone needs something important from another can ask it as a favor but, if doesn't get what he needs, will insist the following way: "por favor, te lo pido como una gauchada" (please, i'm asking you as a gaucho's favor) as the formula for the last attempt to soften the other's heart. Third: What you described as "gaucho" wear is very oversimplified and doesn't match with all the styles of the different regions; not all argentine gauchos wear "bota de potro" but the less numerous ones of southern Pampas (not patagonians ones) which are different from those from the mid Pampas and from the northern territories, which are more "civilized"; the southern gauchos lived in the wild, dealing with the indians, with much less contact with european goods, as clothing and general wares, so they had to get adapted to the available resources and made almost all by themselves, because civilization was far away from the regions they lived at. Fourth: The Malambo is just one of the numerous musical and dance styles in gaucho culture, although is the most recongnizable for foreigners; the profound lyrics of their songs is often inspired by the loneliness and the existencial questions, almost philosophical, that accompanied the gauchos along their lives at the extended and almost uninhabited regions in which they wandered free. Curious fact: Gauchos and north american Cowboys have the same origin; the spanish colonization of the Americas, the same as the mexican "Charros", the real ancestors of american cowboys in the territories of Texas and all the other colonial spanish territories, later mexican, later U.S., like California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Luisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississipi... can you name any state more cowboy related than those? If you focus even more the lens, you'll discover more similarities than differences between cowboys and gauchos, the boots, the short and embraided jackets, the spurs, the hats, the big belt buckles, the lasso, the scarf at the neck, the chaps and even ponchos!; the love for their horses and the untamed spirit of liberty; if you analyze old pictures of real cowboys (not the romanticized Hollywood Levi's wearing characters) and compare them whit others from gauchos, easily you could think that they are part of the same culture (with some local characteristics, of course) and you could say "those fellas could had been friends and no one of them would see the other as a strange". Keep on this matter, it's fascinating, for sure.
Excellent video and definitely appreciate your love for and appreciation off all aspects of the cowboy across the world. Ever consider doing a video on the old British drover?
Hi, Argentinian here, half my family lives in a rural area of Buenos Aires, near to the border of the province of La Pampa. You made a awesome resume of what's the essence of being a Gaucho. I'd like to add a few things, first of all there're much more variety to this culture dependent of which part of the continent you analyze (for example in Argentina i believe each province has a specific poncho design), the gaucho activity clothes and line of work may vary depending on climate aswell, for example in the southern patagonia you couldn't breed cows so that's why sheep is the main cattle. And if you look up in the northen point of argentina where is more arid desert-like climate gauchos may vary again.
About the pronunciation, in ARG and UR we say "gau-cho", you said it like brazilians says it "ga-u-sho". And the knife it's "fa-con", the c reads like a k.
I agree with the last brazilian gentleman, today the true gauchos are almost gone, but the culture lives true inpersonated in the rural and agricultural laborman, it's in our folklore, deeply rooted in our culture. Gauchos work the land and love the land, they are amaizinly kind and humble.
My uncle for example breeds horses and cattle, his horses are widely known in his town, he and my cousin even went to several parades, fully dressed and the herd horses following the alpha mare (my uncle's horse) with no lassos or rope.
Thanks for your video, was spot on nontheless. Have a good one :)
Um Gaucho do Brasil aqui, o tirador é usado apenas em uma perna (na direita a cavalo, e na esquerda a pé) porque ele serve para "tirar a dor/marca" que o laço faz na calça quando ele é esticado, usado na direita no cavalo para quando laçar um boi o laço não sujar a bombacha (bombacha é o nome da calça grande) que não é tão resistente quanto a jeans
e na esquerda a pé pois normalmente quando vamos castrar um boi o laçamos a pé pelas patas dianteiras isto chama castração a pealo, e para o laço não foder sua mão apoiasse ele na perna por cima do tirador
exemplo th-cam.com/video/Lry6-ptogfo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=OTohHCtd76k4wMKj
What an interesting culture!
Wow nice video, I can see the effort here. Thanks for making me learn more about my country.
Interesting glimpse to Gaucho culture but a little bit sketchy yet.
First: All of Argentina and Uruguay territories are "gaucho's land"; they can proudly and whitout hesitation state that both are "gaucho nations"; that's the backbone of River Plate's culture; certainly both countries irradiate that culture with the same intensity but Argentina, because it's bigger and with more varied regions an well as the particular differences between them, is the real epicenter of the gaucho culture, which reaches also southern territories of Bolivia, almost all of Paraguay and even the chilean part of Patagonia, apart of what you've already mentioned; then, the gaucho's culture is way more spreaded than you described.
Second: The most coincident (almost universal) etimology of the word "gaucho" states that it comes from a northern argentine native expression: "huacho" or "guacho", that means "without parents", because of their wandering life and mixed origin between white and indian. That original word is still used in their original despective meaning in present River Plate's spanish but has nothing to do with "gaucho", derived from it but become modified as times went by.
However, nothing could had become more different from it's origin that the concept of "gaucho"; today is an adjective that encircles the most remarcable human virtues; if someone refers to other as a "gaucho", means that that person is hardworking, reliable, honest and generous; anyone could feel proud of himself if receive this word as a depiction of how other sees him; if someone does for other/s a favor or so and he's doing it selflessly, he (or she) is doing a "gauchada" (a gaucho's favor); if someone needs something important from another can ask it as a favor but, if doesn't get what he needs, will insist the following way: "por favor, te lo pido como una gauchada" (please, i'm asking you as a gaucho's favor) as the formula for the last attempt to soften the other's heart.
Third: What you described as "gaucho" wear is very oversimplified and doesn't match with all the styles of the different regions; not all argentine gauchos wear "bota de potro" but the less numerous ones of southern Pampas (not patagonians ones) which are different from those from the mid Pampas and from the northern territories, which are more "civilized"; the southern gauchos lived in the wild, dealing with the indians, with much less contact with european goods, as clothing and general wares, so they had to get adapted to the available resources and made almost all by themselves, because civilization was far away from the regions they lived at.
Fourth: The Malambo is just one of the numerous musical and dance styles in gaucho culture, although is the most recongnizable for foreigners; the profound lyrics of their songs is often inspired by the loneliness and the existencial questions, almost philosophical, that accompanied the gauchos along their lives at the extended and almost uninhabited regions in which they wandered free.
Curious fact: Gauchos and north american Cowboys have the same origin; the spanish colonization of the Americas, the same as the mexican "Charros", the real ancestors of american cowboys in the territories of Texas and all the other colonial spanish territories, later mexican, later U.S., like California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Luisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississipi... can you name any state more cowboy related than those?
If you focus even more the lens, you'll discover more similarities than differences between cowboys and gauchos, the boots, the short and embraided jackets, the spurs, the hats, the big belt buckles, the lasso, the scarf at the neck, the chaps and even ponchos!; the love for their horses and the untamed spirit of liberty; if you analyze old pictures of real cowboys (not the romanticized Hollywood Levi's wearing characters) and compare them whit others from gauchos, easily you could think that they are part of the same culture (with some local characteristics, of course) and you could say "those fellas could had been friends and no one of them would see the other as a strange".
Keep on this matter, it's fascinating, for sure.
Excellent video and definitely appreciate your love for and appreciation off all aspects of the cowboy across the world.
Ever consider doing a video on the old British drover?
I haven't! To be honest, I might. Could be fun!
I made videos on Paniolos, Cracker Cowboys, punchers, buckaroos, and the vaquero that you could check out!
@@broomtailcountry I’ve been cruising through the channel since subscribing the other day and really appreciate what you’re doing. Cheers.
@@reachvictoria3386 thank you for the support! It's people like you that I make videos for. I tend to hurt a lot of feelings like you said