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If you are out of U.S and someone calls that way, do you feel offended?
Or even here in this country..do you feel offended?

2006-07-03 15:49:56 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

30 answers

naw, its cools to feel like i belong to something and am ethnic too.

2006-07-03 15:52:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Gringo is a term used by people of Spanish descent to refer to white or black Americans although it is now used for American citizens in general. It used to be a derogatory term but now is considered slang.

No, I am not offended at all.

2006-07-03 15:57:42 · answer #2 · answered by worldisstillthesame2 2 · 0 0

If I was outside the US, than no, I wouldn't feel offended. But if I were in the US then I would feel offended.

Gringo (feminine, gringa) is a term in the Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese languages used to refer to foreigners, especially those from the United States.

2006-07-03 15:54:46 · answer #3 · answered by Kikyo 5 · 0 0

No, I smile when called this as a way to break the ice and let people in these countries I'm visiting know that I'm not as up tight about such things as by bleeding-heart liberal friends. I don't return the comment with a racial slur of my own. It's better to receive than to give such nicknames in a foreign country.

2006-07-03 15:55:04 · answer #4 · answered by chdoctor 5 · 0 0

via fact, in "laptop words," that's seen as YELLING AT a guy or woman!! you're "seen" as being dissatisfied, offended, p-o'ed, and so on. once you write in all caps. this is why that's seen rude and is frowned upon on line. And no, writing in small letters isn't meek or submissive. you could write a assertion that comes for the time of as knowledgeable and worth of analyzing. Writing in all caps is greater of a deterrent via fact human beings would not desire to be sure somebody's offended comments. It additionally enables if the guy writes succinctly, with acceptable capitalization and punctuation, with the intention to get his/her factor for the time of. Do what Yahoo! requests and use small letters. in any different case, you're blackballed from their record serv.

2016-11-01 04:17:24 · answer #5 · answered by zubrzycki 4 · 0 0

Not necessarily offended...the context matters (if it was said privately or publically, if it was said with anger or affection, if it was said in order to distinguish me from others or simply to remind me of my white perspective on things)...and the tone of voice matters too.

However, I would take note of anybody that made careless use of words like "Gringo," "Gaijin," "Haunkee," "Hauli," or "Shicksa," I would be listening to the way they talk to others and about others, trying to determine why they felt that they had to use a loaded word like that, listening for signs of ethnic over-sensetivity or prejudice, wary that they were judging me unfairly--expecting me to act as a representative of all whites, or assuming that I felt as all other whites did.

2006-07-03 15:56:47 · answer #6 · answered by Elspeth 3 · 0 0

no... cause I'm normally the one calling people gringo. I hope they don't feel offended because to us it just means american person or us citizen... Not exactly something bad

2006-07-03 15:54:08 · answer #7 · answered by andie.singergirl 1 · 0 0

Gringo is a white man why be offended when we can all the Mexicans wet backs its even !!!!!!!

2006-07-03 15:55:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No! If you dont feel offended when I call you a Wet Back!

2006-07-03 15:52:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Whites do not get as offended with mere words as do other races. Call me what you want, but honky is my favorite because I have no idea what it means.

2006-07-03 15:55:43 · answer #10 · answered by Mr.Wise 6 · 0 0

No, it's a name that someone else uses. It's no different than joking about Beaners, Crackers, Wops, etc. It's a name. Get over it!

2006-07-03 15:53:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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