gringo footballers in Brazil 2015 (ESPN)". Lance Net . Retrieved 10 February 2015. The word being used for Hispanic American footballers in Brazil. Alicia Shepard stated that there is a disagreement between Hispanics and non-Hispanics about its offensiveness. [5] She argued that even though in Spanish it is defined as a neutral term and not as an insult, in English it can be interpreted as such, and should be avoided. [5]

Sometimes, it is used for people from some English-speaking countries, like Great Britain [35] or Canada. [36] Mexico [ edit ] A woman reading the English-language Gringo Gazette in Baja California Sur, Mexico Gustavo Arellano said that the term is "technically a slur", but "its power to offend nowadays is minimal". He compared the ban on the term as an attempt to cancel aspects of Mexican culture. [41] Other uses [ edit ] Food [ edit ]Gringo is a result of American troops singing songs which began with "Green grows..." such as " Green Grow the Rushes, O", " Green Grow the Lilacs", and various others. [6] Gringo". Dictionary.com . Retrieved 17 November 2021. Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive: a term used in Latin America or Spain to refer to a foreigner, especially one of U.S. or British descent (often used facetiously). In 1969, José Ángel Gutiérrez, one of the leaders of the Mexican American Youth Organization, said his and MAYO's use of the term, rather than referring to non-Latinos, referred to people or institutions with policies or attitudes that reflect racism and violence. [46] See also [ edit ] In Mexican cuisine, a gringa is a flour tortilla with al pastor pork meat with cheese, heated on a comal and optionally served with a salsa de chile (chilli sauce). Some attribute the name to the white flour used. [45] Activism [ edit ]

Audubon, John W. (1906). Audubon's Western Journal 1849–1850, p. 100. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company. In Chile, the word gringo is mostly used to refer to people from the United States. [32] [33] The word gringolandia is used as synonymous with United States of America. [34] a b Arellano, Gustavo (2022-02-11). "Column: The last lament of the California gringo". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2023-06-24. Croom, Adam M. (2014-11-01). "Spanish slurs and stereotypes for Mexican-Americans in the USA: A context-sensitive account of derogation and appropriation: Peyorativos y estereotipos para los Mexicano-Americanos en EE. UU.: Una consideración contextual del uso despectivo y de apropiación". Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics. 2 (2): 145–179. doi: 10.1515/soprag-2014-0007. ISSN 2194-8313. S2CID 27718979. ...and the slur gringo by Anglo-Americans, explaining that "The act of re-appropriating or re-contextualizing, the process by which a group reclaims a term or artifact that disparages that group and then uses it in a different context, is not something new"Audubon, John Woodhouse; Audubon, Maria Rebecca; Hodder, Frank Heywood (20 September 2017). "Audubon's western journal, 1849-1850; being the ms. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold fields of California". Cleveland, A. H. Clark . Retrieved 20 September 2017– via Internet Archive.

Antonio de Capmany y de Montpalau; Imprenta de Sancha (Madrid) (1817). Nuevo diccionario francés-español: en este van enmendados, corregidos, mejorados, y enriquecidos considerablemente los de Gattel, y Cormon. Under Hebreu and Parler: Imprenta de Sancha. pp.448, 628. Castilian Dictionary including the Words of the Sciences and the Arts, and their Correspondents in Three Languages: French, Latin, and Italian" GREEN-GO system sails on MSC Cruises’ flagship ‘Virtuosa’ as adaptable digital comms solution August 2023

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Falcón, Ricardo (2005). La Barcelona Argentina: migrantes, obreros y militantes en Rosario, 1870-1912 (in Spanish). Laborde Editor. p.221. ISBN 978-9879459966. In the United States, gringo is often used by Latino Americans to refer to Anglo Americans. [5] Sometimes it is also used by Americans to refer to themselves. [41] It is considered to be a racial slur targeted towards non-Hispanic white people but it may also refer to any person that is not Latino. [42] [43] Among the US Latino communities it may also disparagingly refer to another Latino person perceived to not be culturally Latino, e.g. inability to speak Spanish. [44] Tacos in LA: A Complete Taco Encyclopedia of L.A." Los Angeles Magazine. July 24, 2015 . Retrieved February 10, 2018. Rodriguez, Alejandro (13 July 2023). " "A very chilean moment": Tiktoker gringa es viral al mostrar cómo se pasan los días de lluvia en el campo chileno". Publimetro.cl . Retrieved 26 August 2023. Alternatively, it has been suggested that gringo could derive from the Caló language, the language of the Romani people of Spain, as a variant of the hypothetical * peregringo, 'peregrine', 'wayfarer', 'stranger'. [16] [17] Folk etymologies [ edit ]