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gringos have been downplaying brazilians fear of US intervention and and in other to deflect they went back to good old “gringo is a slur” posting
Yank is only a word english people use for gently ribbing americans
This person might literally be like 15 and trying to make sense of the words they’ve just now heard for the first time lol
Like, the people calling you gringo are not and never have been the same people that are calling you yank. They’re just two completely unrelated terms by two completely different groups of people who don’t like Americans
And you don’t even have to really dislike Americans to use them, I’ve heard both these terms used endearingly
Probably like 1/5 of the people we make fun of here are actual children.
I hope they cry
I would really like to have a racial slur against white Americans specifically that is guaranteed to make white Americans get their panties in a bunch. I like ‘Yakubian’ for it but it is not particularly American.
gringo
also, it’s been around for a very long time – literally the opposite of the screencap.
Someone called me a racist for saying USian and told me I was trying to make them sound like Asians and I was dumbfounded because thinking that made them sound way more racist against asians than me.
Well yeah, your racist against americans for comparing the ubermench to those subhumans. /s
What are we a bunch of asians?
How is United Statesian a slur though? That is the literal translation of the demonym for them that is accepted and commonly used in Latin America? Estadounidense. Emphasis on dense I guess.
United Statsian is the correct term for USians in portuguese and spanish (we rarely use outside of formal context because the name of the country sucks), it was used since at least the 1860s iirc. Gringo is not exclusive to americans though, it’s more a term used to anyone who was not born in a Latin American Country or Family/Culture. Never heard Yank being used, just Yankee.
Here in Mexico most people say Estadounidense but will know what you mean if you say Americano. Interestingly I noticed that when people speak English they will say American though
Yank is more of a British term. It means the same as yankee in Britain. Yankee can be used by Americans on other Americans, but yank just means ‘American’
Formal Portuguese borderline requires that its writers use multiple nouns for the same thing. Sure, it used to be in vogue to not use the word ‘american’ back in the 1990s. But, really, all actual writers just use Americano, Norte Americano, Ianque and Estadunidense regardless of connotation.
monolinguist spotted lol
the chinese for “american” is literally translated to “united states person”
Ok cracker
Also like what the fuck how is United Statian a slur mf that’s just a term for you that doesn’t monopolize a continent. Also also “yank” can be used indearingly rather than as a epithet. Also also also “gringo” is only an epithet in certain places, afaik it much of Latin America it isn’t use in a derogatory sense but it’s used in the sense that people of the US monopolized the term AmeriKKKan.
God fucking damn it
Everyone I’ve ever called a “yank” was endearingly… when I don’t like them, I call them way nastier things!
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If seppo isn’t listed, they have no idea what they are talking about.
i think seppo is the most effective one because it mostly just confuses us, which in turn makes us mad
i think seppo is the most effective one because it mostly just confuses us
not difficult tbh
These cumskin seppos have no exposure to culture outside of their own that wasn’t shown in a harem Anime.
I call myself a Statesian not as a slur, but because I want Turtle Island to be decolonized. What is this logic?
Plus yank and gringo still slap.
I’m personally a fan of burgerlander We’re burgerlanders living in the burgereich
The people who say this shit:
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Seppo
i was about to say that
gringos have been downplaying brazilians fear of US intervention and and in other to deflect they went back to good old “gringo is a slur” posting
Of course they’re. Everytime we call them out on their imperialism and shit, they start to cry about “muh i got called gringo” as if they were not the most racist nation on earth.
Also, I wouldn’t be messing with Brazilians, they might start spamming Vampeta Pictures in your DM for months.
bet at least half those losers would consider being called gaijin in
endearingIn Brazil gringo is used for basically anyone who’s not from Brazil. The usage of gringo is different depending on what country is using it. In Mexico it’s mostly reserved for people from the US and Canada, in the Andes is used for anyone who looks white, and for Argentina it’s used for immigrants who are from a non Spanish speaking European country, but especially for the Germans and Italian.
Coming from someone on an international border, gringo as an insult is geography dependent I think. It isn’t used here, it’s guero. I’ve been called guero. Never been called gringo.
Guero means blonde or white too
I’ve mostly been called “wedo” by my latam neighbors
Yeah that’s guero, sounds like ‘wedo’
Lol see thats just how white I am. Never felt it was a slur, in fact more a term of endearment like when the lady at the corner store calls me mijo
I think thats Guero. mostly Mexicans use that, it just means like “white person/european looking”, it’s very common for friends/couples/vendors to call people that. In some countries in South America (and Haiti) we usually call loved ones and friends “black person” because that mostly means bro/darling/sweetie even if they’re white.
Lmao I am just realizing that is the actual word for the first time because I am comically white. I have never once been offended by either, though I will say when I hear gringo something about it sounds a tad more aggressive, at least in the context I usually hear it.
If someone says like “Gringo de Mierda” they are just being rude towards you. But the word Gringo itself is harmless
Yep, that’s right.
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In Puerto Rico we almost exclusively use it for Yanks. It can be used for a nonUS foreigner but it’s a bit awkward.
Gringo is not an insult it literally just means someone who is not latin american (which usually are mostly usians or canadians bc those are the guys who we most interact with).
okay?
