It's not a racist term and I've heard much worse words to describe my own good self.
2007-04-23 08:16:26 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
P.S. I'm not Mexican and I live in ENGLAND not America.
2007-04-23 08:21:54 · update #1
I can't and won't be offended by you at all.
Sky
2007-04-23 08:20:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
My wife calls me "Papi Gringo" all the time. Doesn't bother me. We're both white. I guess it was just a word Mexicans used to call European settlers once upon a time . I heard once it came from someone singing "Green grows the grass on my old Kentucky home."
2007-04-23 08:31:51 · answer #2 · answered by blanderswake 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Si, El Gringo Loco
2007-04-23 08:19:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What the hell does that mean anyways?? Me and my friends call eachother that all the time. I think it's funny!! Only the racist really get offended. People who aren't racist take it with a grain of salt, unless someone really is being mean about it, but me and all my friends of different ethnicities call eachother all kindsa names.
The first time I heard it was actually by a friend of mine who is from Holland, and you say you're from England...how funny!!
2007-04-23 08:23:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am as white as it gets, my Dad and his whole family came here from England when he was a teenager, I don't care about the name calling, but it's kind of weird to me, as an adult I have been exposed to alot of nicknames and name calling but growing up there was none of this in our house, even in anger. I wonder why my family didn't engage in this common practice.
2007-04-23 08:28:31 · answer #5 · answered by barbara b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jajaja are u mexican? basically any racial slur that describes a race is not going to sit well with the race, even though there are worse words do u think people arent going to be offended by that? white ppl dont call me beaner so i don't call them anythnig
2007-04-23 08:19:57 · answer #6 · answered by Angelacia baybeeeeee 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't it mean foreign? I wouldn't really mind I could be called a lot worse maybe its cuz like every culture they think that thiers is the norm.Or maybe they aren't familiar with the term they might think that it means something worse.
2007-04-23 08:25:11 · answer #7 · answered by Ali 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's been used as a racist term and has come to infer a derogatory context. That's just how it is.
2007-04-23 08:20:01 · answer #8 · answered by lizardmama 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I prefer El Guapo
2007-04-23 08:21:26 · answer #9 · answered by jamsie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do so many people have to post racially charged questions? Can't you come up with anything else? This is getting old.
2007-04-23 08:22:06 · answer #10 · answered by MARS 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much for the same reason a Mexican gets annoyed when you call him a "wetb-ck"!
2007-04-23 08:21:20 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋