Now if you've been around any Mexican/Latino person,you've definitely heard the term "gringo".You have probably asked why and what this term means. Well,you're probably well-aware of the racist stereotype that Mexicans do not have green cards. So the rumor goes that when American citizens enter Mexico the border patrol would ask for your green card. Then,if you showed them the green card they would say "green go".Which obviously sounds just like "gringo".
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gringo: (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Hispanic person; "only a Hispanic can call another Hispanic a gringo ".
gringo: (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Hispanic person; "only a Hispanic can call another Hispanic a gringo ".
"How are you doing gringo" "What up gringo"
white person: cracker
black person: nigga
Hispanic person: gringo
white person: cracker
black person: nigga
Hispanic person: gringo
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It means white American or person of British decent. Specifically for Americans because hispanics that live in South and Central America consider themselves americano, but by US standards they are not American. African Americans, Asians are not gringos.
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The word gringo was first recorded in Volume II of the Diccionario castellano con las voces de Ciencias y Artes y sus correspondientes en las 3 lenguas francesa, latina e italiana (Castilian Dictionary including the Words of the Sciences and the Arts, and their Correspondents in 3 Languages: French, Latin, and Italian, 1787), by Terreros y Pando, wherein it is defined as:
TLDR a non spanish speaker on the american continent.
The word gringo was first recorded in Volume II of the Diccionario castellano con las voces de Ciencias y Artes y sus correspondientes en las 3 lenguas francesa, latina e italiana (Castilian Dictionary including the Words of the Sciences and the Arts, and their Correspondents in 3 Languages: French, Latin, and Italian, 1787), by Terreros y Pando, wherein it is defined as:
TLDR a non spanish speaker on the american continent.
"The term gringo comes from the green uniforms of american soldiers in the mexican american war."
"no it doesnt you hamster loving buffoon, it translates from the spanish word for greek, and was coopted to refer to all citizens of the USA because the country's name translates poorly"
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"no it doesnt you hamster loving buffoon, it translates from the spanish word for greek, and was coopted to refer to all citizens of the USA because the country's name translates poorly"
"oh"
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by Greg Gringo July 31, 2017
Get the Gringo mug.the word origionated from the mexican american war because legend says that mexicans called americans gringos because what they haerd was "Green Go!"
by Diego Vazquez December 1, 2017
Get the Gringo mug.Gringo is a word used through Spanish speaking countries to describe someone who is not of Hispanic/Latin origin from the USA regardless of race. It is not a derogatory term, it is used instead of American because in Latin America we also consider ourselves American since we are all from the same continent.
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