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Inquiring Gringos Want to Know. 'Ask a Mexican,' columnist fields readers' frank questions.
Los Angeles Times ^ | Daniel Hernandez

Posted on 02/23/2006 12:15:19 PM PST by John Jorsett

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1 posted on 02/23/2006 12:15:21 PM PST by John Jorsett
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BTTT


2 posted on 02/23/2006 12:18:44 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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Why do Americans call Mexicans illegals?

Because so many of them are...........

3 posted on 02/23/2006 12:19:14 PM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
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Hey gabacho! You want to buy some shicken?


4 posted on 02/23/2006 12:20:26 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Dear Mexican,
When are all of the Illegals going to leave America? HAH, that was a trick question - I know it's never.


5 posted on 02/23/2006 12:20:29 PM PST by steel_resolve
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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


6 posted on 02/23/2006 12:20:37 PM PST by laney (I now know who I am a *Crunchy Con*!)
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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.


7 posted on 02/23/2006 12:22:44 PM PST by TNdandelion
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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...


8 posted on 02/23/2006 12:23:37 PM PST by laney (I now know who I am a *Crunchy Con*!)
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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

:-)


9 posted on 02/23/2006 12:23:53 PM PST by mpreston
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"pejorative slang term for white Americans, with "its etymological roots in the Castilian slur for a French national."

French national!? Now I AM mad!!


10 posted on 02/23/2006 12:25:04 PM PST by Spok (Est omnis de civilitate.)
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"Mexicans do not call gringos gringos..."

Actually, thats untrue.

11 posted on 02/23/2006 12:26:20 PM PST by marron
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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..."


12 posted on 02/23/2006 12:26:49 PM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them OVER THERE than over here.)
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To: TNdandelion

It might be more legible if they weren't all caps. Some lower-case could possibly help.

I can't believe I cannot find a picture of this phenomenon.


13 posted on 02/23/2006 12:27:54 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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I vaguely remember reading that the word Gringo came from some Texas Americans who became prisoners of war in one of our fights with Mexico. While they were being marched off to some prison camp they sang a song that had the refrain:

"Green grows the ... in Texas".

"Green grows" got bastardized into "gringos".

I have no idea if it is true.

14 posted on 02/23/2006 12:28:10 PM PST by jackbenimble (Import the third world, become the third world)
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What's a gritlan? Sounds good, but I've never heard of it, even though I'm a GRITS/GRITTY myself.

Pachuco was what some Tex-Mexicans called gringos in the 60s here. I thought it was a bad word that meant whore.

When we cuss in Spanish here, we say "aye, chicharrones!" It sounds bad, but just means "pork rinds!"

Mostly, I am usually just called a "norteamericano" by Mexican strangers *in* Mexico. Not sure what they would call me here at home. Let me step outside for a minute.


15 posted on 02/23/2006 12:28:26 PM PST by Rte66
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16 posted on 02/23/2006 12:29:50 PM PST by UB355
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"Mexicans do not call gringos gringos."...Well, I guess ti coulda been a "Rican" that darn me ran me down on the parking lot 15 years ago in Ft.Lauderale....But he did yell at me: "Get out of the way Old Gringo!"

I am now on the West Coast of Flori-DUH!

17 posted on 02/23/2006 12:30:43 PM PST by litehaus
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To: litehaus

Oh, sorry, that was me.


18 posted on 02/23/2006 12:31:56 PM PST by marron
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To: TNdandelion

All My friends know the Lowriders!

I know one thing Art LAbelle show has every Mexican in East L.A do song dedications..

To Carmello from Marsella:

I want to dedicate the Song I will always love you by the Dells... Still as Sunday night L.A station..pretty funny..


19 posted on 02/23/2006 12:32:17 PM PST by laney (I now know who I am a *Crunchy Con*!)
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To: TNdandelion

Well, I doubt it's "Toyota." Don't know why, but Hispanic people in the media here, who never even spoke Spanish at home, cannot say the word "Toyota."

They call everything "Tay - ota." Like it's spelled "teoda" or something. Stabien.


20 posted on 02/23/2006 12:33:25 PM PST by Rte66
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