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When the meaning is looked up, it means "only white female", so do black females not speak English in America?
It is a reference to a non-hispanic person, so you could call a black person gringa too, although usually it is a reference to white woman, and does not have much to do with english because germand, french etc would fall in the same category.
Last edited by Finn_Jarber; 02-01-2012 at 08:15 AM..
Speaking English: "It makes me feel like a gringa," she said. "It's a bad feeling."
Absolutely no way when the term gringo is being used against Americans in their own country is not derogatory. Why else does this girl see it as a "bad feeling"? It's like those who try to explain away their use of the "n" word.
She didn't feel bad for sounding American, she felt bad because she felt differnet from her own parents. Is this hard to comprehend?
Last edited by Finn_Jarber; 02-01-2012 at 08:06 AM..
Just what "american people, language, and culture" would that be? Would that be White liberal secular humanists, blacks, gays, southerners, westerners, yankees, muslims, athiests, cubans, our drug subculture, my people, the ozark/appalachian subculture? 30 years of multiculturalism and the democratic party penchant for identity politics have pretty much buried that "american people junk." We're well past that.
Hell, if I just compared mexican/central american culture to white secular humanists I'm guessing I'd learn spanish too. At least they possess a functioning culture.
Those are not my words you are replying to. I don't know why my name appears on the quote, but that is not my comment.
Bed feeling because she felt differnet from her own parents. Is this hard to comprehend?
But who forced her to come here to this horrible nation of "gringos" whose language she never wants to learn?
Why don't these people ever consider staying in their own beloved countries and cultures and work for reforms or improvements? Why do they never reject the evil American money or government handouts? That would be a more sincere way of showing their contempt for us. Reject our money.
It is a reference to a non-hispanic person, so you could call a black person gringa too, although usually it is a reference to white woman, and does not have much to do with english because germand, french etc would fall in the same category.
sorry but gringo refrences white people of the U.S. nobody else!!!
But who forced her to come here to this horrible nation of "gringos" whose language she never wants to learn?
Why don't these people ever consider staying in their own beloved countries and cultures and work for reforms or improvements? Why do they never reject the evil American money or government handouts? That would be a more sincere way of showing their contempt for us. Reject our money.
Who forced you to come here?
From the sounds of it she was born here., and she is not complaining about being here? Her only concern seems to be the distance between her and her parents.
Dude, you have clue how weak you sound crying about the words of a 14 year old kid, even after it has been explained to you that she didn't even insult you.
sorry but gringo refrences white people of the U.S. nobody else!!!
Maybe to you, and Mexicans, but only because in Mexico a white person is synonymous with American. If a white person is seen in latin america, they are labeled gringos, without anyone knowing their actual nationality. Down in Panama and Costa Rica there are whole towns full of American and European retirees, and they are all 'gringos'.
I come from Mexico and if I resent this nation as some of these crazy gringa hating people well I would have left back to Mexico. I would have said thanks to my mother for bringing me here as a young boy, but now that I am grown I would go back to Mexico. that simple!
For what it's worth you're probably better off staying here whether you like whites or not.
Maybe to you, and Mexicans, but only because in Mexico a white person is synonymous with American. If a white person is seen in latin america, they are labeled gringos, without anyone knowing their actual nationality. Down in Panama and Costa Rica there are whole towns full of American and European retirees, and they are all 'gringos'.
I grew up in arizona. Gringo and gringa were and are perjoritives.
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