criollo

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• Months after having settled down at Turiba Viejo, I was approached by a Criollo well into his seventies.

  Academic text (1996)

• For instance, Guadalupe's malleability as an ethnic or patriotic symbol is striking, from Spaniards to Native Americans to criollos to Mexicans to mestizos.

  Academic text (2009)

• You have this criollo pride of defending even the mistakes, because one day you compromised your word...

  Academic text (1991)

• Yet, with their belief in hard work and their internalization of criollo definitions of success, they set 'higher' goals for their children.

  Academic text (1990)

• Rather, Sánchez was primarily a 17th-century criollo pastor and theologian renowned for his knowledge of Augustine and other patristic writers.

  Academic text (2003)

• After all, she developed such a consciousness as have most pro-independence supporters; it is the same kind of nationalistic consciousness that many criollos developed under Spain, the same consciousness that motivated several revolutionary attempts in Puerto Rico under Spain and under United States rule.

  Academic text (1991)

• The growing presence of indigenous Andean musical forms in Lima is interpreted by migrants and criollos alike as an indicator of the weakening of criollo sociocultural hegemony.

  Academic text (1990)

• Boasting that they did not depend on Spain for the Catholic faith since the Virgin Mary had elected to appear in their own land and extend to them the singular gift of leaving her very image on Juan Diego's tilma, by the early 19th century, the criollo elite engaged Guadalupe as a central symbol in their growing aspirations for independence.

  Academic text (2009)

• The cultural heritage of the criollos is celebrated every year during the festival.

• My friend is a criollo whose ancestors played a significant role in the history of our region.

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