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im tired of being censored because someone has a hardon for me...
the term gringo is, as far as i know, meant to denote a caucasian while visiting in a spanish-speaking country, if a latin person wants to call me gringo here, go ahead, it proves their ignorance, or if it is done in jest, then they had better be willing and able to take a little poking back
i used to deal with A LOT of mexicans and cubans in my old territory selling tools, i did extremely well there because i was the gringo that they couldnt ruffle, gringo loco at times, and they were all my ****'s... we got along great as long as they all understood it was all in fun, and they did...
what can you possibly call me that would offend me to the point of whining about it? nothing, unless you leveled false claims against me, that's a different story
So does it? Especially if you are a white American in you own country?
Someone brought the word up on the Politics forum and it got me wondering...
The term Gringo doesn't particularly bother me provided I don't also hear words like, "mucho" & "stupido" in the same sentence - or see somebody spitting in my Enchilada Platter before they bring it out to my table.
I've been called Gringo by people whose ancestors were "in my own country" before mine were.
Me too. I married into a Hispanic/Native American family. I've been called both "Gringo" and "mi hita." And like a previous poster said, as long as they don't call me late for dinner . . . especially if they're cooking.
It depends on how the word is used. I live in Austin, Texas, so I'm around mexicans a lot. If it's one of mis amigos who says it, kiddingly to me, with a grin, I take no offense. I DO get a bit perturbed if, however, it's some illegal alien (we call 'em "exchange students" down here) who is ticked-off at me because, maybe I didn'y understand his rapid-fire spanish, or I, with my three itms in the express line at the store, cut in front of him and his family of eight with 17 items.
But I've always gotten along pretty well with the Mexicans, and in fact enjoy speaking spanish and am pretty proficient with it. And if I ever find myself getting a little frustrated with the sheer propensity of them down here, and with getting called a pinche gringo once in awhile, I just remind myself that I'm living in what was once northeastern Mexico, before we took it away from them in that famous Yankee landgrab that was called the Mexican-American War in 1846.
Paz, hombres.
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