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I know there are white Mexicans. I knew quite a few of them growing up. Medium brown hair, white skin, and green eyes, for example, wasn't that uncommon. Different European peoples stomped on the place.
Still, I wouldn't live anywhere where I would be considered a "gringo." I immediately think of an ignorant person with a poncho and a sombrero somewhere in west Texas sitting on a mule. I hope they don't have a word like that in Argentina and Uruguay. They seem too Euro-centric to buy into that mindset.
I know there are white Mexicans. I knew quite a few of them growing up. Medium brown hair, white skin, and green eyes, for example, wasn't that uncommon. Different European peoples stomped on the place.
Still, I wouldn't live anywhere where I would be considered a "gringo." I immediately think of an ignorant person with a poncho and a sombrero somewhere in west Texas sitting on a mule. I hope they don't have a word like that in Argentina and Uruguay. They seem too Euro-centric to buy into that mindset.
Foreigners throughout South America are called "Gringos."
Gringo is not a term for an American. It means "someone who speaks a strange language." It is used to describe Italians and Brazilians, and the Brazilians use it to describe Spanish speakers.
Still, I wouldn't live anywhere where I would be considered a "gringo." I immediately think of an ignorant person with a poncho and a sombrero somewhere in west Texas sitting on a mule. I hope they don't have a word like that in Argentina and Uruguay. They seem too Euro-centric to buy into that mindset.
My experience in Mexico is that "gringo" is most often used by Mexicans to describe a white extranejero -foreigner believed to be from either the United States or Canada. The word is used as a pejorative as well as an easy neutral description, depending upon who is using it, the inflection, circumstances, etc. Mexicans often use such descriptions, strange as it may seem to people unfamiliar with the culture, without negative connotations: "gordo", "güero", "negro", "flaco".
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