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To: kabumpo

grin·go (grngo)

n. pl. grin·gos Offensive Slang

Used as a disparaging term for a foreigner in Latin America, especially an American or English person.


112 posted on 04/24/2013 10:17:27 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (HEY RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Sorry, dictionary is outdated and wrong. This is vernacular, which.changes with.common usage. And you are seizing on this dictionary definition, which was a detail in our discussion, to avoid admitting that you were completely uninformed and incorrect in your initial assertion of the assumption that ”Hispanic” is a generic condition, identity, culture, state of mind that can be effectively addressed by anyone with the sole qualification of membership in this group identity.
I responded by telling you that the concept of there being such a thing as ”Hispanic” is bogus, that ”speaking in Spanish” is not some kind if master key to win over diverse ethnic and political communities that have no connection other than the Spanish language; and that only gringos - i.e. uninformed outsiders - think that.
From this you construed that I am anti-American and Mexican-centric.
You had no idea what you were talking about you clearly don’t want to know, and in your ignorance you chose.to cast my expertise about the enemy as collaboration with them. And, to use another well-known word of the Mexican vernacular, it was such a macho reaction.


113 posted on 04/24/2013 1:08:51 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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