Meet Bruce Wang, a Chinese cowboy in Texas who joined a diverse, but evolving tradition
during the pandemic, he recalled how a professor at his school was verbally harassed."It made me very upset," he said.
"I’ve been able to feel really safe," he said."In agricultural areas you’re more likely to get help."We want to foster conversation and highlight the intersection of race, identity and culture in one of America's most diverse cities.As he tended to cattle, Wang built a following on both Chinese and American social media, with videos that drew thousands of followers curious about modern cowboy culture.
In truth, Wang said, modern cowboys have to reckon with not just unruly steers, but the almighty forces of global trade and technology. He pointed out the stress cowboys felt from challenges posed by everything from rising wheat and corn prices during the pandemic to shifting climate patterns that areCourtesy Bruce Wang, that heralds the biggest change to the cowboy way of life.
Last August, Wang traded his stirrups for a graduate student office at Texas Tech, researching the impact of technology. His cowboy years had helped him appreciate how farmers and cattle ranchers in regions all around the world – from Inner Mongolia and Tibet in China to the grasslands of North Africa – face similar problems adapting in the face of rising prices and technological shifts, he said.
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