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A male Caucasian or white man. It’s NOT offensive or derogatory, as most [white people] believe even though their first language is usually not Spanish. We can’t exactly call you “el hombre blanco” which translates to “[the white man]”, so we call a white man a gringo. A gringa is a female Caucasian or [white woman]. I know all of this because, yes the first language I learned was Spanish, and I still speak it. So when a person says “llama la gringas” it translates to “call the white females”. The word gringo is like the word black in English. Of course when a person says, “Oh, look at those stupid gringos, they’re all stupid” it’s just as offensive the same way a person would say “Oh, look at those stupid blacks, they’re all stupid”. Gringo is also like the Spanish word chino, which means a Chinese male, or an Asian male. Unlike the many offensive terms for other ethnicities and races that the [English language] has(nigger, spic, wetback, beaner, chink, cracker), the Spanish isn’t so pinpoint in its offensive terms usually, and if there are, a lot of them are local terms. Gringo/gringa can also be used to tease a Latino, Hispanic etc. person who is white in color and very fair skinned. My uncle calls me gringa, but it’s not offensive.
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