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To: Neeka who wrote (169779)	6/13/2006 8:37:07 PM
From: MichaelSkyy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793828

but it is indeed a disparaging word. I respectly disagree...I spend 4-6 months a year in Costa Rica..We Norto Americanos refer to ourself as 'Gringo/Gringa' as do our 'Tico/Tica' friends and neighbors...Nothing, no way even close to the "N" word!!! FYI Mike Although its original meaning was perhaps derogatory, its usage today is not necessarily pejorative, even though it may be considered offensive by English-speakers. The American Heritage Dictionary does however classify the term as offensive slang [1]. However many view that this argument is akin to saying that the term "nigger" is simply a shortening for the latin word for black and thus not in itself offensive. In informal Spanish speech, "gringo" offers a convenient shorthand to refer to a person from the U.S., since the term "American" is used to refer to anyone from the entire American continent (North, Central and South), while the more specific term "estadounidense" ("one from the United States") is somewhat cumbersome to pronounce. "Gringo" is almost never used to refer to people from the U.S. of Asian, Native American or Latin American origin, and its usage appears reserved almost exclusively to U.S. residents of Caucasian or black descent.[citation needed] en.wikipedia.org