Talk:Gringo/Archive 2015
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"Brazil and Portugal" section
This has a long section about racial descriptions that seems to have nothing to do with the term "gringo". -- Beardo (talk) 04:30, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
The reason we have the Brazilian slangs fro very fair-skinned people is because some users would insist that "gringo"in Brazil was only used for white foreigners or very white Brazilians. I had to correct this article numerous times because of that. Check the archive of old discussions in this article. This is obviously not true, because the indicated slangs are the most commonly used to indicate someone very fair skinned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.4.62.71 (talk) 07:05, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
"In some places[which?] the term may be used to refer to any foreigner who does not speak Spanish (or, in Brazil, Portuguese) as a native language." -- This doesn't seem to add any information. Any term may be used for any purpose by people who don't know how to use it. 201.37.191.252 (talk) 16:16, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
- this section looks like it was taken from Uncyclopedia. Ceiscoran (talk) 15:48, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
- I made several changes, adding the sources. I almost erased the whole light-skinned thing, but 189.4.62.71 has a good point, we need this to stop people from adding any connection of gringo to skin colour in Brazil. I added a source in which Cameroon immigrants played and won a Cup named "Copa Gringos" in Brazil, it is a good example of the term being used to black people. I also removed a part in which was stated the term was not used to other Latin Americans. That was ridiculous, the people who wrote it were certainly not Brazilians and probably never searched for that, they just assumed Brazil would use the term the same way most Hispanics do. I added several different source examples of the term being used to refer to Latin Americans in sport and tourism, and I could add one thousand more if it were necessary. Actually, if you hear the term gringo in Brazil, it is more likely to refer to a Latin American than another Region's person, as most foreigners in Brazil came from Latin America. 179.186.169.237 (talk) 22:06, 10 February 2015 (UTC)