"I Thought All Americans Were Cowboys..."

I'm not sure where these people are getting their opinions of Americans, but yes, people actually said this.
1.) We met our new friend David the first night. He was a Barcelonian who spoke little English, but enough to hold a conversation. He later says that it was fun meeting us, and that up until that night he thought all American’s were ditzy, loud girls from Texas. (He even pretended to fluff his hair and talk with a drawl.)

2.) The second night we met an English Rugby team at an Irish Pub. They were hilarious...drunks who liked to take their shirts off.  One of them said that hey thought all Americans were cowboys like John Wayne, and all of his friends agreed.

3). The next day, Kristen told me a story about her foreign friend's impression of Americans, which was that we were all cowboys on horses who like to throw money in the air.

I'm not sure why, but I thought this was all hilarious.