gringa
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- noun
- Slur
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gringa
- The racialization of culture that occurs in these narratives works along the East-West axis and implicitly places me, the gringa who plays Bolivian music, on the other side, with the West.
Examples
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He calls me gringa and says how much he would like me to visit them as soon as I find the time and money.
Fiction book (1996) -
She's a gringa, yeah?
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- Now you look like a gringa movie star.
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- Come, sit down, little gringa.
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The gringa is very, very innocent, you know?
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Nice gringa lady making you pies?
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A gringa wouldn't think an Indian smart enough to trick her.
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She's a gringa; she outstayed her visa.
Fiction book (2002) -
I was a gringa playing Bolivian music, and students noticed that I looked different from the Bolivian musicians on stage.
Academic text (2006) -
When she moved to Mexico, everyone referred to her as a gringa because of her fair skin and accent.
How Foreign
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gringa is the female form of Spanish gringo ('foreigner') and came to mean a woman from English-speaking countries, often white. So today gringa is a common slang word in Latin America for a foreign, especially English-speaking, woman.