yanqui
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈjæŋki/
- Offensive
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yanqui
- I agree that I wouldn't mind flying to Cuba, but if the ultimate goal is freedom for Cubans, then giving the regime more chances to confiscate Yanqui dollars is only going to extend the life of the regime itself.
- El Yanqui
Examples
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There is no reason to believe that an influx of Yanqui tourist money will ever end up in the hands of Cubans instead of in the coffers of the regime.
Blog text (9) -
The YANQUI SI placard he wore on his back.
Fiction book (1994) -
Allowing Yanqui dollars in now would allow the regime to be resuscitated by confiscating all of those Yanqui dollars that would come with the tourists.
Blog text (9) -
Allowing Yanqui dollars in now would allow the regime to be resuscitated by confiscating all of those Yanqui dollars that would come with the tourists.
Blog text (9) -
Texas Instruments began production in El Salvador, only to leave in the mid-1980s when political instability and yanqui-baiting heated up.
Academic text (1997) -
It's a poor excuse, as you've noted, but "It's all the Yanqui's fault" has a lot of traction in Latin America and among US Castro apologists.
Blog text (9) -
Nearly all Hemingway's verbal declarations of affiliation with Cuban peoples and denunciations of what he termed "yanqui" status were articulated in Spanish.
Academic text (2017) -
Pilots for the drug cartels paraded through the jewelry stores on Via España, buying gaudy trinkets with great green rolls of Yanqui dollars.
Fiction book (2000) -
Many locals in Mexico view a yanqui as someone from the northern United States.
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During the festival, she proudly declared herself a yanqui to embrace her American roots.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yanqui comes from the English word Yankee, a name for people from the United States. One popular story says Yankee came from the Dutch name Janke, 'little John', so yanqui kept the idea of 'an American person' and is often used in Latin America, sometimes as an insult.