gringo

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• Are you kidding -- every gringo living in PV is available for cocktails 24 hours a day. Page 3
• But Ensenada is billed as a tourist destination for gringos, and every book on Mexico I've read says almost everyone in Ensenada speaks English by necessity. Low cost lodging in Ensenada?
• It might be mistaken identity, as the poster above me said, but among all my Mexican friends, from either here in Ajijic or from Guadalajara, a "gringo" is a person from the U.S. No Problem With "Gringo"
• Rather than merely alerting the American public to the problems Mexico has long been facing from the narcotraficantes, I fear that the main reaction of the average gringo to this development will be that in addition to flooding their borders with illegal immigrants who are taking jobs from Americans, Mexico is now overrunning the country with drug cartel mafiosi. Project Coronado
• One of the places in which Dawg lives is Chiapas State where the term "gringo" is considered a racial epithet so when you are looking around down there for Dawg to buy me some cerveza, please refrain from canvassing locals for the "fat gringo from Alabama often seen hanging out in the barrio plaza" or they might think you are disdaining me. S.O.S.E. Security - Chapala
• Morales built his campaign on promises to nationalize natural resources and "decolonize" the economy, code words for rolling back the rules of gringo-sponsored capitalism. Calculated Contradictions
• Perhaps "fully furnished" is the standard in the "gringo ghettos" but if the guy is living on the cheap -- or even on Mexican standards -- not so. Semi-Scheming Way to TJ
• When my Mexican wife protested, the stroppiest, fattest guard said (in effect) that I could take 90 days and shut up or take nothing at all and leave - he was tired of damn gringos and didn't care much for them. Can Americans be actively involved in politics in Mexico?
• The word gringo is often said to have originated with invading American soldiers who sang the lyrics from “Green Grow the Rushes, O” in marching cadence, which the Mexicans are supposed to have adapted phonetically. Gringos in Paradise
• I come here to escape gringo visitors and ex-pats, which is probably not the norm in SMA. Living in Guanjuato