BTTT
Because so many of them are...........
Hey gabacho! You want to buy some shicken?
Dear Mexican,
When are all of the Illegals going to leave America? HAH, that was a trick question - I know it's never.
As a native Californian we have been referred to Gringos by what we eat but most native Californians are Mexican at hearts because we eat cherizo and eggs where others eat hashbrowns and gritlans..I am still wondering why Northerns call Californians Cake eaters???
In the 40's mexicans were called Pachoocos
Would Mexicans consider a different font for the name displayed on their truck's back window? It's very gothic looking and I can't make heads or tails out of the letters. Otherwise....it's nice.
I will tell you I use to buy the best homemade Tamale's from this Mexican guy where I work..I have no problem with the Mexicans only the troublemakers, lived around them my entire life...
Why do Mexicans who migrate to the US, legally or illegally, turn their back on Mexico? (reference the latest voter turnout results). Is the real problem the Mexican political and social structures, not the Mexican people? How does Mexico plan on addressing these issues such that Mexico is a destination, not an origination port
:-)
"pejorative slang term for white Americans, with "its etymological roots in the Castilian slur for a French national."
French national!? Now I AM mad!!
Actually, thats untrue.
Lots of Mexicans call Americans gringos. One explanation for the term goes back to the Mexican War and the marching song the Americans sang incessantly that started "Green Grow the lilacs..."
"Green grows the ... in Texas".
"Green grows" got bastardized into "gringos".
I have no idea if it is true.
I am now on the West Coast of Flori-DUH!
"Gabacho?"
Way too much information....
Americans are not Frenchmen. We DEMAND "gringo" be adopted as the only legitimate pejorative to be applied to "norteamericos". We earned it, we deserve it, and by golly, we will fight to keep the term.
If "chicken" is "shicken", why then do they pronounce Chevy as Chevy instead of Shevy?
"Why are there so many elaborate wrought-iron fences in the Mexican parts of town?"
I would like to know. I want one for my yard to impress my snob neighbors.
The only people I've heard use the term "gabacho" referring to anglos were Mexican Americans kids in Los Angeles. Someone else can tell me what they say elsewhere.
I have heard the word used to refer to frenchmen, by Spaniards, if memory serves.
South of the border, not only Mexico but points further south, you hear "gringo". It isn't an every day expression, but its used. Sometimes in a friendly way, sometimes its a pejorative, and sometimes its use is entirely neutral.
Didn't I see this already on "Mind of Mencia"?
This is cool. Showing up on the conservative talk radio also makes an excellent political point - that conservatives are actually the broad-minded and tolerant bunch, and that we aren't afraid of straight talk.
Its the other side who only want to talk to themselves.