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How do you feel about being called a Gringo?

Does being called a Gringo bother you?

  • No, being an American is so great that even attempted insults are a compliment

    Votes: 7 22.6%

  • No, it's their problem, not mine

    Votes: 7 22.6%

  • Yes, it bothers me

    Votes: 2 6.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 15 48.4%
  • Total voters
    31
SDET

SDET

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I constantly hear this term used to refer to Americans in almost ALL of Latin America. If you heard this, would it bother you? One term that does offend me though is "marajá". It means someone who got their high paying job through patronage. Think of it as a "no show" employee on the payroll.
 
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our hearts will go on. given the choice between being called a name and being separated from my family after having to seek asylum, i'd choose the former.
 
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You travel a lot in Latin America? Where is that? Everywhere south of the USA, or the southwestern states too?
 
Don't care, not my problem.
 
I've only been called a gringo by my Hispanic friends. They laugh when I call them illegals.
 
trixare4kids said:
I've only been called a gringo by my Hispanic friends. They laugh when I call them illegals.
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If they call you "gringo", which is a pejorative for a foreign male, they are definitely not your friends. But even if they call you "gringa", I suspect they realize that you are definitely not their friend either.
 
Manc Skipper said:
You travel a lot in Latin America? Where is that? Everywhere south of the USA, or the southwestern states too?
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I live in Arizona and can't remember the last time I heard the word.
 
Better than being a gabacho.

And I see lots of gabachos when I travel....
 
DiAnna said:
If they call you "gringo", which is a pejorative for a foreign male, they are definitely not your friends. But even if they call you "gringa", I suspect they realize that you are definitely not their friend either.
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Lighten up.
The OP asks if anyone has ever called you, the collective you, a gringo and if it bothers them.
I'm on topic. You're not.
 
It doesn't bother me at all. I more often hear "anglo". I don't see either as a derogatory term.
 
When I lived in Kigali, it was pretty common to hear the locals refer to us as "M'zungu"...I suppose its simply another word for "Gringo", though its original meaning was slightly different.
 
where I grew up I heard so much **** it finally just rolls off your back like drivel from a Republican

we got it from the Italians, the blacks, the mexicans, the Bandidos, everyone, etc.; i'm surprised I didn't get murdered just for breathing ..................

then of course you have the fine folks at city hall, like the police that were full of the KKK, and their kids ............... oh, yippy ................

America ........... the melting pot ..........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Rolling
 
Gringo is pretty much on the level of the N word. It doesn't bother me and the N word shouldn't bother anyone either.
 
Waddy said:
Gringo is pretty much on the level of the N word. It doesn't bother me and the N word shouldn't bother anyone either.
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No. It's not even remotely on the level of the 'nigger'. Not even in the same universe.
 
Does being called a Gringo bother you?
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Explain to me please how this matters.

Is there any chance that they are going to stop?
 
Y'all can call me "Mole", because I'm warm, spicy, and saucy.
 
SDET said:
I constantly hear this term used to refer to Americans in almost ALL of Latin America. If you heard this, would it bother you? One term that does offend me though is "marajá". It means someone who got their high paying job through patronage. Think of it as a "no show" employee on the payroll.
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As long as I am making between 10 and a 100X more than they are, I don't care what they call me.
 
Waddy said:
Gringo is pretty much on the level of the N word. It doesn't bother me and the N word shouldn't bother anyone either.
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Yes, because for hundreds of years, my white ancestors were dragged south of the border in chains, sold off like cattle, beaten, whipped, spit on, while our Latin masters called us "gringo slaves"...

Oh, wait. It wasn't the whites who were slaves, it was blacks; and it wasn't in Latin America, it was in North America; and blacks weren't abused and called "gringos"; blacks were abused and called "n******".

Hmm. Maybe that's why even today when a white person calls a black person a n*****, that black person has every right to be bothered by it.
 
DiAnna said:
Yes, because for hundreds of years, my white ancestors were dragged south of the border in chains, sold off like cattle, beaten, whipped, spit on, while our Latin masters called us "gringo slaves"...

Oh, wait. It wasn't the whites who were slaves, it was blacks; and it wasn't in Latin America, it was in North America; and blacks weren't abused and called "gringos"; blacks were abused and called "n******".

Hmm. Maybe that's why even today when a white person calls a black person a n*****, that black person has every right to be bothered by it.
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The best argument that these two words aren't on the same plane is we'll say the word gringo but the other one we call the N word.
 
azgreg said:
The best argument that these two words aren't on the same plane is we'll say the word gringo but the other one we call the N word.
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Yeah, even typing out the whole word would make me feel cruddy. :(
 
azgreg said:
The best argument that these two words aren't on the same plane is we'll say the word gringo but the other one we call the N word.
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This is because people for some reason don't understand a pejorative is simply a pejorative. Words only have as much power over you as you let them.
 
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