Leanining H, no doubt being called a Cowboy should be an honor.  The problem is everybody wants to be one and nobody wants to learn what it takes.  There are more dudes anymore than anything.  Very few people ride in our part of the world anymore, unless it's a japanese horse.  Hardly anyone can rope and if they do they can't catch one with out running the wind out of them and stirring things up.  I am not saying I have never run one but you have to learn how to set yourself up so you don't stir the whole bunch.  As you know it takes more than a hat and boots with a saddle and fat horse to make you a cowboy.  Anybody that's been around a good one can pick one out wear'n a ball cap and loafers, he'll just wreak of a tradition.  One of his greatest attributes is humility and confidence bundled together.  I have met very few Cowboys who are arrogant, even though the may seem that way before you get to know them.